Ping An puts torrid 2008 in the past
Having suffered a profit-mauling a year earlier, the fortunes of Chinas second-largest life insurer, Ping An, rebounded in the third…
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The Phoenix’s big battle to rise from the ashes
Fighting to restore its distribution capabilities, US insurer The Phoenix Companies (TPC) has opted to go it alone with the…
ByRisk transfer market roars back to life
Ending a declining trend, the UKs final salary pension scheme risk transfer market rebounded in the third quarter of 2009…
ByStandard Life bows out of banking
Ending an 11-year and once highly ambitious foray into banking, UK insurer Standard Life has sold Standard Life Bank (SLB)…
ByEasing the multi-state licensing burden
State-level regulation of US insurers results in significant duplication, not the least being multi-state product licensing A solution, the Interstate…
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REGULATIONUS life insurers excluded from oversight by new Federal agencyFollowing tough opposition from life industry lobbyists, the US House of…
ByTwenty years to build, four years to dismantle
ING Groups plan to dismantle its sprawling insurance empire marks the end of one of the grandest fully integrated bancassurance…
ByGenerali harnesses iPhone power
Accessing information on the move is increasingly becoming accepted as the norm, a trend that is being accelerated by the…
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