Hints and tips:
...maker Sevmash, hydrocarbons shipping company Sovcomflot, United Shipbuilding Corporation and gas industry insurance company Sogaz....
...An attempt to acquire up to 30 per cent of Swiss Re, the reinsurance group. The question everyone is asking is, why?...
...The group is to be split into three units under a new holding company: traditional reinsurance; a corporate solutions business to focus on insuring specific large risks for big corporations, and Admin Re...
...The Swiss company will invest $40m alongside the International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank, in UBF, a surety and agriculture insurance specialist....
...Swiss Re last year suffered a $1.1bn loss on insurance it had written on complex instruments, while Bermuda-based XL Capital also incurred losses, partly from an investment in a bond insurer....
...Indeed, on the face of it Leitz ran a model Nazi corporation, supplying Leicas to the Army and the Luftwaffe, and manufacturing the navigation gear for the V-2 rocket....
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