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...Alongside America’s highways, billboards jostle for drivers’ attention....
...The UK’s status as a top financial hub is at risk Tracy Blackwell, CEO of the Pension Insurance Corporation, and Andy Griffiths, executive director of The Investor Forum, aren’t optimistic that reforms...
...One thing to start: Reed Hastings is stepping down as chief executive of Netflix, the company he co-founded 25 years ago, in a shake-up at the top of one of the most powerful studios in Hollywood....
...JPMorgan Chase’s global head of credit trading, Guy America, is leaving the bank, according to Reuters....
...“Yes, our market has tightened over the years, but nonetheless it is still relative value,” said Judith Klugman, head of ILS sales for reinsurance group Swiss Re’s capital markets division....
...This includes a prohibition on insurance and reinsurance and maintenance services. Further restrictions on the export of dual-use goods and technology, including semiconductors....
...John Collison, co-founder of the $95bn online payments company Stripe, sits on an advisory board for Heritage and has invested in the fund....
...Russia’s reserves increased after its 2014 annexation of Crimea as it sought insurance against future US sanctions — earning the term “Fortress Russia”....
...Well, the firm — no stranger to the controversy that can result from buying into struggling companies — typically sniffs for value in the neglected corners of America’s industrial economy....
...Blackstone has promoted US acquisitions co-heads Martin Brand and Peter Wallace to head of North America private equity and global head of core private equity, respectively, and elevated Asia acquisitions...
...Apollo Global Management started the trend in 2009, when Marc Rowan (pictured), the group’s billionaire co-founder, helped set up Athene Holding, an affiliated life insurance company that now contributes...
...The Swiss bank said it was well aware of the perils of marrying green finance with polluting companies....
...But it is unclear how much weight Mr Newsom’s executive order carries, and if his successors will adhere to it....
...The comments came at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, after climate campaigner Greta Thunberg hit out at companies that she said were not doing enough....
...Boeing or Purdue Pharma may leap out, but RepRisk, a Swiss ESG rating company, has chosen to eschew such widely known examples for its 2019 ranking of the world’s most controversial companies....
...HSBC has promoted Alexander Paul in London to co-head of financial institutions group for Europe, Middle East and Africa, focusing on advising banks, insurance companies and financial technology start-ups...
...Fidante Partners, a London subsidiary of Challenger, the Australian-listed investment manager and insurance group, has recruited PeterPaul Pardi as head of Europe and North America....
...Here’s the story of Greg Lindberg, who built an insurance empire called Eli Global (a nod to his alumni, Yale University) and transferred some $2bn in insurance assets to his own private businesses....
...of French or Swiss democratic institutions....
...“[It] doesn’t give me a warm and fuzzy feeling,” said Christian Mumenthaler, chief executive of Swiss Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurance companies, in an interview late last year....
...An attempt to acquire up to 30 per cent of Swiss Re, the reinsurance group. The question everyone is asking is, why?...
...UBS has poached Jeff Rose from Deutsche Bank, where he was global co-head of consumer retail and services, according to Reuters. Rose will become co-head of Americas M&A....
...According to Swiss Re, natural catastrophes around the world caused $166bn of economic losses in 2016. Only $46bn of that was covered by insurance....
...Other businesses are offloading their schemes to insurance providers....
...It also provides private insurance products that offer farmers additional protection. Zurich Insurance’s US arm has been providing reinsurance to RCIS since 2000....
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