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...Activists parked a van outside the broker’s London office, displaying the message: “Lockton taking on Adani’s new coal mine as a client will fuel climate disaster.”...
...Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired Carol Van der Vorst as a partner on its leveraged finance team in London. She joins from Ropes & Gray....
...“It will be much harder for smaller insurers to deal with those people,” he said....
...In 2018, he led on the process to win state and federal regulatory approval for the $69bn acquisition of insurer Aetna....
...He was speaking during an online discussion with Pat Pettiti, chief executive of Catalant, a software platform company that Koch and MassMutual, the US insurer, use to promote better use of workers’ skills...
...Chief executive Toby van der Meer said: “We remain focused on long term profitable growth, with our price comparison website and digital focused business model built to take advantage of an increasingly...
...The terms for the acquisition of Hong Kong life insurer were not disclosed but people familiar with the transaction said the agreed price was less than $400m....
...“Financial services is becoming another winner-takes-all industry, so you need to spend a lot of money on tech to get the advantages of scale and play both offence and defence,” says Huw van Steenis, a veteran...
...Nevertheless, Peel Hunt analyst Andreas van Embden said that: “These losses are materially higher than we had estimated as a normalised catastrophe loss,” for the second half....
...• Steven Blackie, above, has moved to Aviva Investors as head of global product strategy for the £353bn asset management business of Aviva, the UK insurer....
...• Credit Suisse Asset Management’s private fund arm has created a direct and co-investments group that will be led by veteran managing director Paul Van Hook....
...Also joining are Wanfeng Yan, Guillaume van Baalen, Mingxi Wang, Eyal Hanouna, Samuel Amar and Lisa Taylor....
...These prevent insurers from offering cheaper deals via other sites....
...Mr van Embden agrees: “London remains an attractive hub, Brexit or no Brexit. Brokers bring risks to London from all over the world.”...
...insurers are trying to catch up....
...The duo operate on an asset-light model, much like Uber, allowing customers to hire a fleet of vans for removals and deliveries....
...● Frank van Etten has moved to Nuveen, the $900bn New York-based asset manager, as chief investment officer for multi-asset solutions. He joins from UBS Asset Management....
...He moved to the €469bn asset management arm of Allianz, the German insurer, from BNP Paribas. Benjamin Walter has moved to the infrastructure debt team at AllianzGI from BlackRock....
...In the past, Mr Van der Ende has served as chief investment officer of PGGM, the Dutch pension fund....
...Jan van der Schalk, an analyst at CLSA, said: “Ng Keng Hooi is, consequently, the right successor. Collegiate. Knowledgeable. Disciplined — where discipline is the finest of all.”...
...• NN Investment Partners has named Satish Bapat as chief executive of the $224bn asset management arm of the Netherlands-listed insurer....
...“His success is characterised by the same elements of all successful executives: he took advantage of a lucky break,” Mr van der Schalk said....
...● Schroders has hired Huw van Steenis as global head of strategy....
...Mr Van Hassel served as global chief executive of ING Investment Management until 2013....
...Erik Jan van Bergen joins as head of pensions for Europe from Actiam, the Dutch asset manager, where he was chief investment officer....
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