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...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....
...The company said it was “co-operating with the European Commission and is committed to defending its reputation as a fully independent and self-supporting economic operator”....
...or public order in the Union”....
...Other industrial co-operations have worked....
...“The role of reinsurance, particularly offshore reinsurance, is making [it] even harder to regulate an already opaque life insurance sector,” he added....
...The regulator also wants to make greater use of reinsurance markets, and aims to encourage investors to put more money into EU insurance-linked securities — such as catastrophe bonds, which pay out for certain...
...One area of focus has been a reliance on securities such as collateralised loan obligations — packaged-up corporate debt — to back insurance liabilities....
...“[The union] campaigns on ‘look at what Ford got’,” Belcher said. “They’ve really been pushing $40 [an hour] and free health insurance.”...
...That job security is starting to fade as deals disappear, Bloomberg reveals....
...As one Danish trade union leader noted in 2007: “Security is no longer to hold on desperately to the same job throughout your life....
...“similarities” between the sales pitch that was used then and Corinthia’s success in attracting an entire team of senior executives from Barings, which is owned by MassMutual, one of America’s biggest life...
...For Dai-ichi Life, acquisition of Benefit One would come as it explores other revenue channels to counter a shrinking insurance market at home....
...The SOC had been able to propose new directors after a rule change at the Securities and Exchange Commission that made proxy campaigns more accessible....
...Lammy said a new security pact with Brussels should complement Nato and drive “closer co-ordination across a wide variety of military, economic, climate, health, cyber, and energy security issues”....
...An outright ban on zero-hours contracts would be controversial even among trade unions....
...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....
...A proposed shake-up of the UK’s pension market to give millions of workers the right to choose a retirement “pot for life” risks leaving savers worse off, industry leaders and unions have warned....
...A-Cap controls life insurers based in Utah and South Carolina. A-Cap chief executive Kenneth King late last month told insurance agents that AM Best’s downgrade was unwarranted....
...But we got there in the end and here it is now, for your wintertime pleasure, and as a little insurance policy for us against losing this recipe again....
...Lidington, who has close contacts in EU circles, said he thought Labour was going “to make a big offer on defence and security co-operation, which in my view is very sensible”....
...The private capital groups have built up substantial investments or tie-ups in the life insurance sector....
...It seems unlikely, however, that the current UK government will engage in substantive discussions on closer security co-operation with Europe, which is politically toxic to some Conservatives....
...The group is split into an active asset management arm, a life insurance and pensions business and a financial advice business. M&G’s share price rose by about 2 per cent in morning trading....
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