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...Brokers play a key role in the global economy, advising companies on risk and how to manage it, including through insurance....
...It is the latest coup for Lloyd’s, which has also attracted insurance group Aviva back to the market....
...Fast-growing private capital managers such as Apollo have in recent years pushed aggressively to create high-yielding assets for insurance companies....
...Shinichiro Funabiki, chief executive of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, told the Financial Times the company had decided to focus its investment plans on the UK because of London’s primacy in analysing complex...
...Another focus for MS Amlin is to grow its casualty insurance lines, such as policies which provide cover for legal claims against a company’s management team....
...The company expected net cash flow to turn “consistently positive” in the first half of next year....
...BCG is working with global tech giants and AI companies — from Microsoft and Google to OpenAI and Anthropic — to integrate their technology into company operations and processes....
...Microsoft, which owns Excel, said the company remained a “key technology partner for companies across financial services broadly, and insurance specifically”....
...First: the insurance sector is continuing to pay large ransoms to hackers, on behalf of companies, even though the governments of countries such as the US and UK have urged them to stop, arguing that this...
...Under such schemes, governments share losses from natural disasters with the insurance sector, or create structures to pool risk....
...A teenager who works in a logistics centre must pay a lot for insurance even if he is a skilled and careful driver. Telematics, as the technology is known, lets him prove it to gain a better price....
...Insurance companies have lifted prices drastically in the past couple of years after spiralling inflation in their claims costs — as items such as car parts and second-hand cars became much more expensive...
...BUY: Learning Technologies Group (LTG) The company’s valuation has dropped significantly, yet strong cash generation feeds into the investment case, writes Arthur Sants....
...Third, a repricing of climate risks has led to a sharp rise in the cost of property catastrophe reinsurance — or insurance for insurance companies....
...The rising cost of home insurance and motor insurance has exacerbated cost-of-living pressures on households....
...Premiums from its general insurance division, which includes car insurance, also grew....
...Second-most-common were advertising and marketing businesses, followed by fintech, financial services and insurance groups....
...According to an index from insurance broker Marsh, global commercial insurance rates rose in the final three months of last year, the 25th straight quarter of increases....
...MPs last year blamed regulatory foot-dragging for London losing out on $700mn of insurance-linked securities that went to Singapore....
...Its existing UK operation is the sixth largest in car and home insurance, according to the company....
...Blue Owl already has a large credit business, but it largely focuses on debt for large technology leveraged buyouts....
...“The big question is, can the PE firms be a trusted owner of a life insurance company?” said Isabelle Santenac, global insurance leader at consultancy EY....
...Many customers are buying weight-loss drugs outside insurance schemes as obesity is not a widely covered condition in the US....
...On Monday, the company announced it was buying Lloyd’s insurer Probitas for £242mn....
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