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...He said the sector needs to “bring to bear” broader forms of insurance capital including from pension funds and sovereign wealth funds through a growing insurance-linked securities market....
...The fund listed the UK in its Fiscal Monitor publication on Wednesday as one of four large economies that “critically need to take policy action to address fundamental imbalances between spending and revenues...
...If required, an international fund — maintained by seaborne oil importers — can also be called upon to make a contribution of up to about $1bn....
...Grosvenor said funds for the lending business would come from “organic growth” and “strategic sales around the periphery of the [London] estate”....
...“The dividend is back [above] 51 cents, plus the Canada payment, so the insurance fund is now receiving the kind of money it identified in the first place when it bought,” said a person close to Ping An....
...“All EU regulators are really down on PE fund owners right now,” said one insurance executive....
...Berkshire’s model also sidesteps the perpetual threat hanging over many other investors: the need to raise new funds while facing redemptions if returns are poor....
...Rather than the federal government dipping into its funds, Neal said, it would be “far better for the insurers to stand up and say hey, let’s actually begin to deal with all of this”....
...of any life insurance policy....
...Insurance executives have also highlighted the risk of a misalignment of interests between the long-term nature of this insurance business and the shorter timeframe of ownership through a PE fund, rather...
...funds of millions of future pensioners....
...In 2018, his government rolled out a public insurance policy to cover about 120mn low-income households....
...The flood maps that Fema uses to set premiums for its federally underwritten National Flood Insurance Program — which is how most Americans get flood insurance — are outdated....
...Pension funds and sovereign wealth funds are around 40 per cent of the business. Insurance companies used to be small, but are now about 30 per cent of our business....
...With the season ending up a mild one, the decision helped propel the insurance business to one of the best underwriting profits in its history....
...“Any suggestion that this regulatory approach should be changed lacks substantiation and could harm fund investors,” said the Investment Company Institute, which represents fund managers....
...The finance chief of Italy’s biggest insurer has expressed concerns about potentially conflicting interests when life insurance companies are owned by private equity funds, as anxiety grows about the consequences...
...The Association of British Insurers’ Investment Delivery Forum, set up to facilitate the promised investments, on Monday said new public-private partnerships that use taxpayer funds would reduce risks....
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...Meanwhile, self-pay admissions — where people choose to fund their own healthcare rather than use private health insurance — increased 32 per cent over the same period....
...This offers customers up to £10,000 to fund resilience measures when they repair their properties. Holiday and caravan parks have been left submerged by days of heavy rainfall....
...Many UK businesses with large pension schemes have offloaded them to life insurance companies....
...Rossi, who became chief executive in late 2022, highlighted the group’s investment performance across its funds and the contribution from the life insurance business as the reasons behind the company’s recent...
...LIU had intended to use the funds to invest in Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurance market....
...Global financial supervisors are increasingly focusing on the risks arising from the shadow banking sector, which includes pension funds, family offices, trading houses and insurance firms....
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