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...Its share price and that of bigger rival L&G have snaked sideways for more than a year. Just trades at a 60 per cent discount to book value. Its life insurance peers are closer to parity....
..., which is a significant provider of home, motor and life insurance, and has more than 18mn customers worldwide....
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...“They’ve really been pushing $40 [an hour] and free health insurance.”...
...The sale of its brokered insurance unit last year has bolstered its balance sheet; a solid solvency position could enable capital returns....
...Long-dated insurance premiums are becoming the funding of choice. The shift is sufficiently seismic that once overlooked credit firms are now the subject of bidding wars....
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