The State Life Insurance Company

Apollo sells stake in asset-backed lending unit to insurer MassMutual

...Fast-growing private capital managers such as Apollo have in recent years pushed aggressively to create higher earning assets for insurance companies....

April 24, 2024

Insurance

Aon chief calls for better models for ‘stressed’ property insurance market

...Brokers play a key role in the global economy, advising companies on risk and how to manage it, including through insurance....

April 7, 2024

FT Live

Global Insurance Summit

Strengthening resilience, capital and innovation as systemic risks evolve

Lloyd's of London Ltd

Lloyd’s of London attracts biggest ‘Names’ syndicate since 1990s

...It is the latest coup for Lloyd’s, which has also attracted insurance group Aviva back to the market....

March 28, 2024

War in Ukraine

Russian ‘dark fleet’ lacks disaster insurance, leaks suggest

...The Russian dark fleet’s insurance arrangements with Ingosstrakh potentially expose coastal states in Europe and Asia to huge potential clean-up costs in the event of a spill....

March 15, 2024

777 Partners

US regulators push insurers to cut exposure to Everton bidder 777 Partners

...A-Cap owns five insurers: Sentinel Security Life, Haymarket Insurance and Jazz Reinsurance in Utah, as well as Atlantic Coast Life Insurance and Southern Atlantic Re in South Carolina....

April 1, 2024

Pensions industry

UK pension trustees raise alarm on transferring risks offshore

...Many UK businesses with large pension schemes have offloaded them to life insurance companies....

February 4, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Climate change

EU regulator urges action on climate threat to insurance

...Continental European commercial property insurance prices rose at the start of the year for the 22nd consecutive quarter, according to an index from broker Marsh....

April 22, 2024

Private equity

Is private equity’s bet on life insurance turning sour?

...“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....

March 25, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The painful rise in home insurance costs

...Third, a repricing of climate risks has led to a sharp rise in the cost of property catastrophe reinsurance — or insurance for insurance companies....

April 1, 2024

Zurich Insurance Group AG

Zurich’s sale of $20bn life insurance book to PE-backed group collapses

...Regulatory scrutiny of the special risks presented by private equity ownership of life insurance companies has climbed, after Italy’s Eurovita — another life insurer majority owned through Cinven funds —...

January 30, 2024

Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching

Should I use the travel insurance provided by my credit card?

...You can buy travel insurance from insurance companies, banks, travel agents, supermarkets, holiday companies and online comparison websites....

March 27, 2024

LexInsurance

UK’s pension buyout boom leaves insurance investors wanting more Premium

...Its life insurance peers are closer to parity. One investor concern is the capital-hungry nature of bulk annuity business....

March 8, 2024

Insurance

Lloyd’s of London chief calls for quick insurance payouts on Baltimore bridge

...Reinsurers, including Lloyd’s companies, are expected to bear the brunt....

March 28, 2024

ageas SA/NV

Direct Line rebuffs £3.1bn offer from Belgian insurer Ageas

...Its existing UK operation is the sixth largest in car and home insurance, according to the company....

February 28, 2024

Insurance

Scrapping the spreadsheet: start-ups take aim at an old insurance addiction

...Microsoft, which owns Excel, said the company remained a “key technology partner for companies across financial services broadly, and insurance specifically”....

April 7, 2024

FT Live

Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers

Aviva PLC

Aviva returns to Lloyd’s of London for first time in two decades

...On Monday, the company announced it was buying Lloyd’s insurer Probitas for £242mn....

March 4, 2024

Live news: Police presence grows as pro-Palestine protests spread across US campuses

What to watch in Asia today

...Corporate results: China Life Insurance, Japan’s Hitachi, Indian software group HCL Technologies and Maruti Suzuki report quarterly results....

April 26, 2024

UK insurance industry

UK car insurance prices fall for first time in two years

...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...

April 18, 2024

Corporate bonds

Big asset managers adopt ‘vulture’ tactics in distressed debt fights

...Guardian Life Insurance, a lender that owned Robertshaw loans through a so-called collateralised loan obligation, sued the company and the Invesco-led group of lenders in New York state court, arguing that...

April 26, 2024

LexDirect Line Insurance Group PLC

Direct Line needs a better plan to see off Ageas Premium

...The Belgian company reinforced the idea that this is a cut-price, opportunistic bid, with a second cash-and-shares proposal of about 239p per share....

March 18, 2024

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...— The Japanese Bid for Foreign Bonds After the End of Yield Curve Control (Brad Setser and Alex Etra) — Why do people let their life insurance lapse?...

March 20, 2024

UK insurance industry

UK home insurers hit by surge in weather damage claims

...The rising cost of home insurance and motor insurance has exacerbated cost-of-living pressures on households....

April 14, 2024

LexFinancial services

Credit managers are Wall Street’s latest objects of affection Premium

...The loans business is migrating away from the beleaguered banking sector. Long-dated insurance premiums are becoming the funding of choice....

April 9, 2024

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

Napa Valley is California’s wine barometer, an expensive one

...AXA Millésimes, the insurance company’s wine division, is far lower-key than Bernard Arnault’s vast LVMH empire, but has its own investment in Outpost on Howell Mountain, east of the valley....

April 20, 2024

UK insurance industry

Admiral signals end of car insurance price surge

...The company set a new target to generate £2bn of operating profit by 2026, and new guidance that the cash cost of its dividend should grow by a mid-single-digit percentage....

March 7, 2024

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