Hints and tips:
...Mayhem persists among the US’s property and casualty insurers. Auto-insurance businesses are still losing money....
...Companies that directly benefit from low rates have done well. This includes the homebuilders (up 40 per cent or so) and commercial real estate plays such as Boston Properties and Simon Property Group....
...No premiums for insurtech Once high-flying insurance start-ups like Lemonade, Hippo and Root have emerged as the biggest casualties of the broader sell off in tech stocks, the FT’s Ian Smith writes....
...Her bank has deferred repayment on a £50,000 government-guaranteed bounce back loan, but business rates — a tax on commercial property — are falling due again, and the company is struggling with wages, insurance...
...Swiss insurer Zurich is to expand in the US with its $3.9bn acquisition of MetLife’s property and casualty insurance business....
...Equities can offer some protection, particularly shares in solid income-generating sectors, such as consumer staples....
...Casualty Insurance Association....
...The UK property market is emerging from a period of deep freeze — and that’s bad news for house prices (and homeowners)....
...Property and casualty cover is seen as a far more natural home....
...Materials, Staples and Energy, which all increased buybacks in recent years, look the most at risk to us in Europe, and we note that buyback indices have underperformed during the sell-off....
...growth in property re-insurance lines, where rates should continue to harden....
...property markets....
...Airlines, tourism, construction and property companies all outperformed – indicating that investors are betting on successful easing of restrictions from here. Does the move have legs?...
...Exane likes Sampo and Lancashire as the most defensive of the property and casualty insurers....
...In a note on Monday, credit ratings agency Moody’s warned that primary property and casualty insurers, as well as reinsurers and alternative capital providers such as catastrophe bonds, are all likely to...
...The marketing power of drug companies and laissez-faire attitude of doctors has fuelled one of the worst public-health epidemics of modern times, which ended up proving ruinous for De La Rosa and millions...
...Given AIG’s particular troubles with property and casualty insurance, some analysts think it would be wise not to choose another person short of industry experience....
...“Insurance assessors are not stupid, and will have done their research before they come and visit.” Anyone considering letting out their property should also inform their mortgage lender....
...A new regulatory body is needed to help navigate and eventually untangle these new linkages between banks, securities companies, trust companies and insurance firms, and can also help coordinate the tricky...
...Kabbage, a US company that lends to small businesses over the internet, has been collecting large amounts of data about its customers, and plans to use it to offer them tailored products like property-casualty...
...Over the last year, we understand that a number of AIG’s 100,000+ employees have left A.I.G. to join the company’s direct competitors in the global property and casualty and life insurance businesses....
...The company has begun offering “financial supermarkets” within its stores that offer credit cards, insurance and mortgages....
...“However, insured losses are estimated to amount to only a fraction of this cost as insurance penetration in China remains low, and most Chinese P & C [property and casualty] policies do not cover earthquakes...
...(An annuity may provide an income for the remainder of your life but they are unpopular with some investors as they require you to hand over a lump sum payment to an insurance company)....
...Ltd in co-operation with China Telecom, Xinyuan Prime Technology and the People’s Insurance Company of China, Property Casualty Company Limited (PICC P&C), the largest non-life insurance company in China...
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