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...“The role of reinsurance, particularly offshore reinsurance, is making [it] even harder to regulate an already opaque life insurance sector,” he added....
...“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....
...Third, a repricing of climate risks has led to a sharp rise in the cost of property catastrophe reinsurance — or insurance for insurance companies....
...Reinsurers, including Lloyd’s companies, are expected to bear the brunt....
...The point of the temporary accounting-rule change, from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, was to shield life insurers’ capital from losses caused by rising interest rates....
..., which is a significant provider of home, motor and life insurance, and has more than 18mn customers worldwide....
...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 —...
...You can buy travel insurance from insurance companies, banks, travel agents, supermarkets, holiday companies and online comparison websites....
...Its life insurance peers are closer to parity. One investor concern is the capital-hungry nature of bulk annuity business....
...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for its federally underwritten National Flood Insurance Program — which is how most Americans get flood insurance — are outdated....
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...Its existing UK operation is the sixth largest in car and home insurance, according to the company....
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...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....
...PE-backed insurance blow-ups attract scrutiny in Europe It’s “one step forward, three steps back”, said one adviser to private equity on the impact of Italian life insurer Eurovita’s collapse last year...
...The loans business is migrating away from the beleaguered banking sector. Long-dated insurance premiums are becoming the funding of choice....
...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...
...“What we have here is the plot of the movie Footloose [about a ban on dancing in a small town] in real life in Seattle,” he says....
...for work and family life....
...Morán is terrorised by the prison kingpin, a doppelgänger of the bank’s sourpuss boss Del Toro (both played by Germán De Silva) and, while at work, Román attracts the enmity of a hard-nut insurance investigator...
...which is owned by MassMutual, one of America’s biggest life insurers....
...the life insurance balance sheet,” he said....
...to the port and any loss of life....
...to life....
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