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...Andrea Filtri, co-head of research at Mediobanca, last week described the “Buch doctrine” as “a new philosophy of regulation, based on a greater emphasis on ‘unknown unknowns’.”...
...Insurers, meanwhile, defend the use of funded reinsurance as one of a number of risk management tools that provide security to their customers’ benefits....
...Medium-sized German insurer LVM holds a 2.9 per cent stake in Signa Prime Selection, one of the two companies that owns most of the Signa group’s assets....
...Far from being one of the “unknown unknowns” that Buch, as the eurozone’s new chief banking supervisor, wants banks to prepare for, increasing interest rates are a natural consequence of quantitative easing...
...The company also claimed for about €3.7mn for a damage survey, plus other costs. Lloyd’s of London and Arch declined to comment....
...The latest number was unchanged from the government’s forecast in January, dashing hopes of an earnings boost for companies servicing that segment....
...I worked for some years for a mutual insurance company that is now probably the best capitalised insurer in the UK....
...It would be the latest in a series of takeovers of UK insurers in recent years....
..., according to data published on Monday by the Association of British Insurers....
...Axa pledged to hike returns to shareholders in coming years through higher dividends and annual share buybacks as the French insurer laid out plans to extend its products to mid-sized companies and sell...
...The White House is wary even of Nippon Steel of Japan, a US ally, taking over America’s third-largest steelmaker, US Steel. So will the UK plan one day look foolish?...
...Relatively unknown to the sports world just five years ago, 777 has recently snapped up hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stakes in football clubs around the world....
...A string of big home insurers have halted new business in California, for example, in response to a surge in extreme weather losses....
...Shares in Travelers, one of the biggest US insurers, rose 7 per cent in early trading on Wall Street after it posted fourth-quarter net profits of $1.6bn, doubling from the same period the previous year...
...Expanding the Tideway approach could “open up more investment by insurers, to other sectors of the economy”, it said....
...We start the week with news that companies are rushing to meet their financing needs before the US election, in a bid to get ahead of potential market volatility in the final stages of the race....
...Several companies have also left Florida, which has frequent episodes of flooding and hurricanes; many households are now covered only by the state-backed insurer of last resort....
...Microsoft, which owns Excel, said the company remained a “key technology partner for companies across financial services broadly, and insurance specifically”....
...“The big question is, can the PE firms be a trusted owner of a life insurance company?” said Isabelle Santenac, global insurance leader at consultancy EY....
...The positive data will also be a boon to Eli Lilly’s efforts to push for more widescale coverage of the drugs by private insurers and US federal health insurance programme Medicare, which were both initially...
...Direct Line’s new chief said the UK motor insurer had “a very successful future . . . in front of us” as it launched a fightback against a takeover attempt from Belgian rival Ageas with new cost savings...
...The Belgian company reinforced the idea that this is a cut-price, opportunistic bid, with a second cash-and-shares proposal of about 239p per share....
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