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...A multinational consumer company such as Unilever currently has very little real-time insight into how their products sell at small storefronts in India, for example....
...“We are trying to translate climate modelling in terms of investment-level decision-making,” says Pooja Khosla, Entelligent’s head of product development....
...With some degree of pricing power and an aging population in the UK (target audience of the home service insurance market), we continue to see this market being the cash cow for both groups for some time...
...As Richard Borsuk and Nancy Chng wrote in their 2014 biography, Liem Sioe Liong’s Salim Group: The Business Pillar of Suharto’s Indonesia, this “looked like a kind of insurance policy for when Suharto was...
...He was also responsible for such lucrative deals on both sides of the Pacific as the group’s investments in Kinder Morgan, ICBC and Ping An Insurance, making billions of dollars for the US investment bank...
...“Stack up those margins against industrial companies or service companies. Asset managers have margins in the 30s or low 40s. Really?...
...There were billions of dollars of losses for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation when Colonial went bust in 2009....
...(New York Times) Cisco Systems’ quarterly sales and profit forecasts exceeded analysts’ estimates, an early sign that the company is overhauling its product line fast enough to stay ahead of shifts in the...
...He joined the FT Group in 1996 as editor of the newsletter FT world insurance report, before becoming UK companies reporter in 2000....
...of extended warranties, credit life insurance and dealer-installed accessories into contracts.”...
...Mr Chang studied for two masters of fine art degrees at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois and the Seoul National University in Korea....
...Shares in UnitedHealth Group , the biggest US health insurer by revenues, fell 1.4 per cent to $57.13 after reports that it was in talks to buy all or part of Amil Participacoes, a Brazilian insurance group...
...University of Illinois economists estimate the drought will trigger an underwriting loss of $18bn, of which $14bn will be shouldered by the US government. Full losses won’t be known until Q4....
...At the short end of the bond yield curve, Mr Brady thinks market participants could include Asian non-central bank money, Japanese insurance companies and Asian pension funds looking for yield....
...Emerging markets are coming out of the crisis with greater respect and they now account for one third of the world’s gross national product....
...(NASDAQ & TASE: SPNS) is a provider of IT solutions that modernize business processes to enable insurance and other companies to quickly adapt to changes; and nextSource Inc., designs, develops and implements...
...“The addition of Safeco significantly expands and strengthens the Liberty Mutual Group,” Edmund Kelly, Liberty chief executive, said in a statement....
...He served as chairman and chief executive of American International Group from 1967 until 2005, during which time he build AIG into the largest insurance company in the world Read Hank Greenberg’s letter...
...WaMu had assets of $307bn and total deposits of $188bn and its failure far surpasses that of $40bn Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Company, which closed in 1984 during the savings and loan crisis...
...In the view of several present and former AIG executives, Mr Sullivan was a brilliant insurance man but the group had become much more than an insurance company and he lacked a deep understanding of the...
...Beazley Group took top spot on the FTSE 250 leaderboard after two brokers – Credit Suisse and UBS – upgraded the stock. The re-insurance company also announced plans to buy back £20m of its own shares....
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
...The city also hosts the headquarters of large insurance companies such as Aon State Farm and Allstate....
...The Chicago Board of Trade will not disclose plans for its metals business before consummating a merger with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in a move that could provide both groups with insurance against...
...in the securities and insurance sector....
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