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...Munich Re’s main insurance business Ergo provided about €700mn in loans, while Germany’s fourth largest insurance group R+V lent €500mn, more than half of which is not collateralised, according to the documents...
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...A huge chunk of that — Rs205bn — came from the sale of a 3.5 per cent stake in state-run Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) in May through a long-delayed initial public offering....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...Trump, for example, blocked Qualcomm’s proposed $142bn takeover by Singapore-registered Broadcom on concerns that it might lead to reduced R&D spending by the US company, allowing China to steal a lead in...
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...On the contrary, there is an incentive to migrate pre-Brexit to earn an active national insurance number....
...But it’s a useful insurance policy if the economy were to take a sudden cyclical lurch downwards....
...stake Japan’s Dai-ichi Life Insurance and Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance are among the companies shortlisted to buy a minority stake in Indonesia’s Panin Life for about $200 million, sources said. http://...
...Greenberg has been quietly building up a family of insurance companies that could compete with A.I.G. To fill the ranks of his venture, C.V....
...In some circumstances a small or medium-sized company that does not have sufficient profits to utilise the 175 per cent allowance can claim a cash payment (an ’R&D tax credit’)....
...The writer is chairman and chief executive officer of C.V. Starr....
...Here, I must state clearly that public sector enterprises such as banks and insurance companies will remain in the public sector and will be given all support, including capital infusion, to grow and remain...
...There are two components: (i) cash; and (ii) stocks and shares, and life insurance policies....
...An annual study of Germans’ fears, conducted by the R+V insurance group since 1991, shows falling purchasing power, economic weakness and unemployment topping their concerns this year, with terrorism in...
...Certain transfers (to companies and some trusts) are taxed at the time of transfer (life-time transfers). Inheritance tax is calculated on a cumulative basis....
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