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...Millions of Americans are at risk of running out of savings in retirement,” said Catherine Collinson, president of the non-profit Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies....
...Università La Sapienza, Italy; economics degree 1994, Insead, France; MBA Career 1995, Product marketing manager, General Electric Lighting Europe 1999, Director of business development and marketing Europe, Transamerica...
...Among them are Aberdeen, Delaware, DFA, John Hancock, Lord Abbett, OppenheimerFunds, Russell and Transamerica....
...Aegon paid $10.9bn in 1999 for Transamerica. But to underscore the difficulties in the US market, MetLife, the S&P 500 insurer, said last week it would scale back its variable annuities business....
...Lipper cites several examples of hedge managers sub-advising retail absolute return funds, including AQR on the Transamerica AQR Managed Futures Strategy, Akros Capital on the Quaker Akros Absolute Return...
...WPP will act as a kind of loss adjuster for the policy, advising on and directing spending for a crisis-hit company for the first few months up to a limit of about $25m....
...iPad (likely to be addressed in version two) is the lack of integrated front and back video-capable digital cameras – essential for applications such as mobile videoconferencing and useful for insurance adjusters...
...Combined with more stringent regulation, this is probably what induced insurer Transamerica to cease sales of fixed annuities through brokers....
...Similarly, Transamerica Re, the US life-reinsurance business being sold by Dutch insurer Aegon, is said to have attracted at least initial interest among some financial investors....
...“But you also need to convince the relatives you are not just a loss adjuster,” says Mr Palmer, who adds that it is easier working with companies than families....
...Now, they enumerate toxic assets like a loss adjuster. “That building there, it’s just been Nama-ed,” said one resident, pointing to one of Dublin’s best-known hotels....
...On Thursday Standard & Poor’s withdrew an ‘AA’ strength rating on Life Investors Insurance Co. of America, citing its merger with Aegon’s US operation, Transamerica Life Insurance....
...The current bail-outs are a strong argument for tighter regulation, but regulators cannot be everywhere, any more than a claims adjuster can ride around in your car all day....
...AXA Art segments clients based on their motivations so adjusters can react accordingly if claims occur. “There are different levels of hand-holding....
...Aegon’s Transamerica unit would continue to offer the flagship Merrill Lynch Investors Choice Annuity through the broker’s financial adviser network but Merrill would also look to increase distribution of...
...They were not loss adjusters or surveyors, but scientists from Risk Management Solutions, a company building complex computer models to calculate the probability of disaster striking – and how much insured...
...A number of Standard Life policies still have market value adjusters – penalties if you surrender your policy early – which, in extreme cases, could result in you losing up to a quarter of your fund value...
...“Our insurer, through their loss adjuster, is in discussion with claimants regarding potential settlements,” the company said....
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