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...But UK business has been brisk: rising interest rates have transformed funding levels in defined benefit pension schemes and enabled companies to consider offloading future liabilities....
...keen to offload in a period of low interest rates....
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...the life insurance balance sheet,” he said....
...to life....
...That deadline is what makes this entire situation interesting (outside of this blogger’s inexplicable interest in insurance)....
...A body representing global insurance regulators has called for “enhanced supervision” of private capital-owned life insurers, citing potential “conflicts of interest” and “increased risk-taking”....
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...Better regulation is and will continue to be part of the solution, but it is also in companies’ interests to be proactive in addressing the problem of bad customer service....
...Both are alumni of consultancy McKinsey and came to insurance as outsiders — Wilson’s first job in insurance was at L&G, joining from events company UBM....
...In full-year results on Wednesday, the life insurance and asset management group reported a 45 per cent rise in new business profit — a measure of expected earnings from newly sold products — to $3.1bn,...
...“Southern workers are ready to stand up and win a better life,” Kelcey Smith, a worker in the paint department at Volkswagen Chattanooga, said in a statement....
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...A-Cap controls life insurers based in Utah and South Carolina. A-Cap chief executive Kenneth King late last month told insurance agents that AM Best’s downgrade was unwarranted....
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