UNUM Life Insurance of North America

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

...Private capital investors have acquired more than $900bn in life and annuity assets in western Europe and North America, according to McKinsey & Company....

March 25, 2024

Insurance

Are lifers fueling the bond issuance boom?

...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....

March 4, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management North America

New models for the next age of fund management

Insurance

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

...The chief executive of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market has said insurers should “just get on with it” and pay out for the Baltimore bridge collapse, rather than waiting for years of wrangling over...

March 28, 2024

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

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

...It’s hardly surprising that Napa Valley, an hour north of San Francisco, is a magnet for tourists. Napa wine producers have responded by turning tourism into a serious profit centre....

April 20, 2024

Special ReportFuture of Water

US housing market belatedly wakes up to flood risk

...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for its federally underwritten National Flood Insurance Program — which is how most Americans get flood insurance — are outdated....

March 22, 2024

ReviewArts

Let the Kids Dance! podcast review — when a city banned teenage kicks

...“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....

April 8, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards North America

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching

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

...My wife and I relied on our credit card insurance policies when travelling to the Middle East and North Africa to visit our family....

March 27, 2024

Aviva PLC

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

..., which is a significant provider of home, motor and life insurance, and has more than 18mn customers worldwide....

March 4, 2024

How To Spend It In...

Louis Sarkozy’s guide to Washington DC

...Today we have a pretty house just outside DC: I don’t like overdosing on city life but Natali does, so we found a compromise in Maryland, where we plant herbs and saplings from American Plant in our garden...

April 24, 2024

ExplainerMaritime accidents and safety

The Baltimore bridge disaster: what happened and who will pay?

...life....

March 27, 2024

Travel

My cowgirl weekend in Fort Worth

...No part of America is mythologised quite as much as the West....

March 2, 2024

Serious MoneyClaer Barrett

Have you got five minutes to talk about investing?

...Claer Barrett is the FT’s consumer editor and author of the FT’s Sort Your Financial Life Out newsletter series; claer.barrett@ft.com; Instagram and TikTok @ClaerB....

April 26, 2024

ReviewVisual Arts

Walton Ford, Morgan Library — review: roars and whispers from the finest living painter of animals

...The painting isn’t an allegory, but it does evoke the flight of a plantation slave heading north, or a Jewish person on the run from the Gestapo....

April 24, 2024

FT Magazine

Battle for the American West

...By the mid-1800s, the US bracketed the landmass called North America....

April 13, 2024

News in-depthPrivate credit

The former rugby lawyer shaking up the world of private credit

...which is owned by MassMutual, one of America’s biggest life insurers....

April 7, 2024

FT Live

Global Insurance Summit

Strengthening resilience, capital and innovation as systemic risks evolve

ReviewFilm

Five stars for The Delinquents — a bank-robbery film that defies genres

...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...

March 21, 2024

Camilla Cavendish

Science is closing in on the frailties of old age

...But even if we managed to eliminate one of the big killers — cancer, heart disease, stroke — that would bring us only a few extra years of life, because something else would get us instead....

April 26, 2024

Haiti

Haitian premier Ariel Henry steps down amid gang crisis

...Meanwhile, rights groups have warned that the humanitarian situation on the ground is deteriorating in what is already the poorest nation in the Americas....

April 25, 2024

Insurance

Insurers in talks to overhaul net-zero group after member exodus

...The SMI, a private-sector grouping of chief executives, highlighted what it believed to be insurance industry gaps in a report issued last year....

January 22, 2024

News in-depthArgentina

Argentine households face financial crunch as markets cheer Javier Milei

...Virgílio, a 69-year-old hardware shop owner in Buenos Aires’ middle-class Almagro neighbourhood, said he had cut his beef consumption and relied on senior discounts to afford the staples of Argentine life...

April 26, 2024

ReviewFiction

Float Up, Sing Down — delightful day-in-the-life stories of small-town America

...It was one of those small things in life that made the big things better.”...

February 1, 2024

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...) — America’s Manufacturing Renaissance Will Create Few Good Jobs (Dani Rodrik for Project Syndicate) — Alex Spiro profile (New Yorker $) — Billionaire Boies (Puck $) — The life and death of Hollywood...

April 17, 2024

The Weekend Essay

The promise and perils of the egg-freezing revolution

...“I think the most educated women in America have heard of egg-freezing.”...

March 23, 2024

Lex PopuliHealth sector

Survival of the fittest for health tech Premium

...But medtech remains one of the biggest growth segments within life sciences in the UK....

March 8, 2024

Haiti

Haiti names transitional council to handle crisis

...The council — which includes Fritz Alphonse Jean, a former central bank governor, former senate president Edgard Leblanc, and insurance businessman Laurent Saint-Cyr — will also wield limited presidential...

April 17, 2024

Search Results

Viewing results 1‒25 of 51817

Viewing results 1‒25 of 51817

Related links