Insurance
14 December 2011
Resolution founder and chairman Clive Cowdery has bought a further stake in the consolidation vehicle.
09 November 2011
Friends Life has today announced the creation of Friends Life Investments (FLI), a new inhouse asset management business which will launch in the second half of 2012.
16 October 2011
The insurance business is in good shape but this is not fully reflected in stock prices, writes Alec Foster, manager of the Polar Capital Global Insurance fund.
05 October 2011
Prudential executives are set to be interviewed in the coming days as part of an FSA probe into the insurance giant’s failed takeover bid for AIA.
16 August 2011
Aegon today confirmed the sale of its UK-based life and pensions business Guardian to European private equity group Cinven, for a total cash consideration of £275m.
09 August 2011
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) today said it anticipates the cost of nationwide riots to insurers will reach £100m.
11 March 2011
Insurance stocks worldwide took a big hit today in anticipation of lower future payouts following the huge earthquake and tsunami which hit Japan overnight.
08 March 2011
Aegon UK CEO Otto Thoresen has been appointed as director general of the ABI and will take up his new role on April 4.
11 January 2011
Omega Insurance, a Lloyds of London insurer in which Invesco Perpetual's Neil Woodford is the largest shareholder, has received a takeover approach from rival Canopus.
20 August 2010
RSA's bid for part of Aviva's general insurance business could still happen but only if the offer is raised by around 10%, according to shareholder Ignis.
06 May 2010
Prudential is eying the use of Lloyds-style contingent capital notes, known as CoCos, to help bolster its cash reserves and revive its £24bn takeover of Asian insurer AIA.
05 May 2010
Prudential has delayed the issue of details of its $21 bn cash call, because it has failed to reach agreement with the FSA on its capital position.
27 April 2010
Prudential’s largest shareholder, the Capital Group, is eying a potential break-up of the insurer as a radical alternative to its $35.5bn AIA acquisition.
15 March 2010
Royal London’s Andrea Williams has begun reducing her fund’s exposure to banks in favour of insurance companies.
19 January 2010
Swiss Re has sold part of its US life insurance business to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway for 1.3bn Swiss francs (£778m).
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