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...“Capacity is still likely to be restricted due to global [catastrophe] losses continuing at record levels,” Adam Garrard, head of corporate risk and broking at Willis Towers Watson, one of the world’s biggest...
...Simeon Willis, chief investment officer at pensions consultancy XPS Investment, said altering prices was “not common practice” and he did not see it as a “model” for dealing with periods of extreme stress...
...Adrian Lowcock, head of personal investing at Willis Owen, an investment platform in the UK, said there was a perception that investing was dominated by “alpha males”....
...Among the deals that were challenged by US authorities were a tie-up between publishers Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster and a $30bn deal between Aon and Willis Towers Watson that would have formed...
...Aon and Willis Towers Watson in July abandoned a $30bn tie-up that would have created the world’s biggest insurance broker....
...That compares with 52 per cent of S&P 500 companies and 63 per cent of companies listed on the main European indices, according to the Willis Towers Watson research....
...It is also half the median salary paid to very full-time chief financial officers, according to calculations by Willis Towers Watson. Bridgepoint’s bet is that Norman is worth a much bigger package....
...“People won’t return to the room unless the decision makers are in the room,” said Alastair Swift, head of global lines of business for risk and broking at Willis Towers Watson....
...The regulatory logic would suggest that if Aon could not buy Willis, Marsh would be similarly prevented....
...(Forbes) News round-up Aon/Willis: for trustbusters, happiness is a smoking gun (FT Lex) Hong Kong tycoon Richard Li’s FWD to raise up to $3bn in US IPO (FT) eBay to sell South Korea unit for $3.1bn...
...The top three in the industry — MMC, Aon and Willis Towers Watson — will become two early next year when Aon completes its acquisition of Willis Towers Watson....
...According to research from Willis Re, the insurance broker, the return on equity for reinsurance companies has more than halved over the past five years....
...Early next year, Aon will complete its acquisition of Willis Towers Watson, making it the number one broker in the industry ahead of MMC, which bolstered its own position last year with the acquisition of...
...“If I were the CEO of Siemens or Schneider Electric I would have opened a bottle of champagne,” said Andreas Willi, a veteran analyst of the capital goods industry at JPMorgan....
...“There is an underlying feeling that we are missing something,” said Alastair Swift, head of GB corporate risk and broking at Willis Towers Watson....
...lost through the underperformance of the fund, it could mean investors overall see their investment shrink by even more than this,” said Adrian Lowcock, head of personal investing at investment platform Willis...
...“This collapse is on a par with the implosion of New Star at the height of the financial crisis, and it will shake the funds industry to its core,” said Adrian Lowcock, head of personal investing at Willis...
...His previous directorships include chairing Vodacom Group, the Johannesburg-listed telecom operator; the South African arm of insurance broker Willis; and the audit committee of the Office of the Auditor...
...Adrian Lowcock, head of personal investing at Willis Owen, a broker, said: “Investors should prepare for the worst so that they are not necessarily shocked when they get the final figure.”...
...“He’s been fantastic at listening and taking on board the views of multiple stakeholders,” said Alastair Swift, head of UK corporate risk and broking at broker Willis Towers Watson....
...The industry’s number two player was forced to admit it was considering a deal with Willis then changed its mind less than 24 hours later....
...Mr Willis sees fixed income as an asset class that is ripe for disruption through computer-driven investing....
...According to broker Willis Re, reinsurance companies made an average reported return on equity of only 5.9 per cent last year....
...Rowland started his career in 1956 as an insurance broker with Stewart Wrightson, Willis Faber and later Sedgwick....
...“If we look at the largest 20 firms in aggregate, assets under management fell in 2008, 2011 and 2015,” said Bob Collie, of the Thinking Ahead Institute at Willis Towers Watson, the consultancy....
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