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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....
...Private capital investors have acquired more than $900bn in life and annuity assets in western Europe and North America, according to McKinsey & Company....
...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....
...Fidelity’s Special Situations fund has targeted UK life insurers, seeing growth potential in the bulk annuities market as companies buy out defined benefit pension schemes....
...’s life....
...About 20 states have also set up defined contribution plans for workers at small companies and the self-employed....
...But life is undeniably tough for UK small-caps at the moment, with the Aim All-Share index trading at its lowest level ever relative to the FTSE All-Share....
...Lifting the insured deposit cap would require the FDIC fund to be 70 to 80 per cent bigger, a jump the industry would have to fund....
...My own long-distance portfolio contains a small allocation to Vanguard’s Global Small-Cap index fund, which has exposure to over 4,000 smaller company stocks in developed markets — just one of many ways...
...Whether you drive a Beamer or a banger, the soaring cost of motor insurance may have caused you to gasp when your policy came up for renewal. I lost a day of my life searching for cheaper cover....
...Two examples from this month: [February 28:] Four major Japanese non-life insurance companies will sell their entire cross-shareholdings worth about ¥6.5tn (about $43bn) over the next few years, following...
...The third thing is that annuity sales have gone up for life insurance companies. Remember that when rates go up, annuities pay a higher return....
...So it’s perhaps no surprise that insurance companies are reporting much bigger sales of annuities....
..., according to the Life Insurance Market Research Association....
...I can tell you from first-hand experience that (especially at the small-cap end) they take their pound of flesh, but there’s plenty left over for investors....
...Or you can say, I think small caps — you know, small companies, small capitalisation companies — have superior qualities to large companies. So I want to buy small caps....
...It is interesting to see how the Russell 2000 small-caps index has in recent years become a more popular benchmark to showcase private equity returns — which no doubt has nothing to do with its weak performance...
...Some schemes, including small companies and privatised companies, use the lower consumer price index (CPI) rate, so their pensioners are squeezed less than those with RPI increases....
...So a small decrease in reserve quantities could send banks scrambling for cash, and push the federal funds rate up....
...You get more mid-caps, what I’d call a mid-cap, and less big-caps by switching. Some of these funds related to the Russell index rather than the Standard & Poor’s index....
...Claer Barrett Yeah, I mean, she’d quite like it if the entire Isa allowance was ringfenced towards UK companies, which is a bonkers idea....
...So I think that large cap should do very well. But I think for listed companies that are small, that don’t have large proprietary data sets, this is going to be a challenging time, actually....
...And as always, when you look at the small items inside the large inflation indices, it’s weird stuff like car insurance, hospital prices, food away from home; all this stuff, as anybody knows who’s been...
...A Nasdaq index of small cap biotech stocks has rallied by more than 40 per cent in the past three months as investors bet on an end to interest rate rises....
...And so you can just buy something like, say, I’d like access to a global part of the world’s biggest companies, please. And you can do that by buying a single index fund....
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