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...Mick McAteer, co-founder of the Financial Inclusion Centre think-tank and a former FCA board member, said the stress-test plan was “very welcome”....
...In a lawsuit filed last week, Atlantic Coast Life Insurance and Sentinel Security Life Insurance, part of US insurance group A-Cap, asked a New Jersey court to stop AM Best from “issuing the rating it has...
...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....
...So-called superfunds have emerged as a cheaper option for employers looking to offload pension plans without paying a premium for a full insurance buyout....
...This can trigger all sorts of tax, social security and other legal consequences for both individuals and employers.”...
...You might be able to get a new phone on insurance, restore your data from the cloud and have stolen money refunded....
...JAB Holding will announce today that it has hired Anant Bhalla, a US-based insurance veteran, to become its chief investment officer and a senior partner to build its new insurance platform....
...Brandon, who co-operated with investigators and was not charged, declined to comment....
...A bean-count of Spain’s social insurance pension entitlements eclipses 500 per cent of GDP, while Denmark’s are less than 25 per cent of GDP....
...There is a robust and well-oiled mortgage-backed securities machine for first mortgages in which Fannie, Freddie or Ginnie buys mortgages, pools them and sells them as mortgage-backed securities to private...
...Apollo established Financial Credit Investment I (“FCI I”) in 2010 coming out of the GFC as a vehicle to acquire pools of life settlements and other insurance-linked securities from banks and other large...
...One area of focus has been a reliance on securities such as collateralised loan obligations — packaged-up corporate debt — to back insurance liabilities....
...That job security is starting to fade as deals disappear, Bloomberg reveals....
...But it’s insurance — you should pay for insurance, you shouldn’t get paid for it. Nassim would say, well, there is a fair amount of alpha to how you construct the options strategies....
...“We are actively encouraging our members to strengthen their systems with cyber security measures and the purchase of cyber insurance policies that will help protect them if they are the victims of a cyber...
...Enter the new species on the prowl at the conference: the retrofit co-ordinator....
...The loans are not just feeding Apollo’s wholly owned insurance operation, Athene....
...The answer starts with the dumping of UK equities by UK pensions and insurance companies....
...This means that offloading liabilities, and the assets backing them, to insurance companies is becoming a viable option for more businesses....
...“The annuity is an insurance policy against outliving one’s assets,” said Brendan Curran, SSGA’s US head of defined contribution....
...If you don’t have an adviser to help you do this, try a free financial planning tool such as Guiide.co.uk....
...Not fully disclosing that they had been paid to promote crypto securities. Last week, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority went a step further....
...The same goes for the perks used to justify the high annual membership fees on these kinds of cards, such as entrance to airport lounges, travel insurance policies and so on....
...Michael Wise of the South Carolina insurance regulator said he was aware that his Bermudian counterparts were addressing issues at 777 Re, and that the state continued to “co-ordinate our efforts as necessary...
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