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  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    Direct Line Insurance Group PLC
    Direct Line investors urged to reject bonus awards ahead of Aviva takeover

    Proxy adviser ISS questions relevance of pay packages that were set before insurer agreed sale to rival

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  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
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    Generali has become a little harder to shove offstage Premium content

    Solid performance deprives rebel shareholders of a good reason to upend the board at this time

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  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
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    Companies are keen to offer employees benefits such as fertility treatment and mental health support

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  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    Mediobanca SpA
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    Slate of candidates backed by billionaire Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone secured just 3 board seats

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  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
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    The trouble with Danish, squared

    Navigating a bancassurance accounting loophole

  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
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    UnitedHealth shares plunge 22% after insurer slashes profit forecast

    US company says it ‘did not perform to expectations’ in first quarter

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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
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    SFO charges Lloyd’s insurance broker over Ecuador bribery allegations

    United Insurance Brokers Limited charged with failure to prevent bribes being paid to officials

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  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
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    Belgian insurer Ageas agrees £1.3bn deal for UK’s Esure

    Acquisition will expand group’s motor and home insurance business

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  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    UK insurance industry
    RSA brand to disappear from UK insurance sector

    Change comes four years after Intact Financial Corporation paid £3bn to take over its British and Canadian operations

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  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    John Gapper
    Lloyd’s of London is Britain’s strangest success

    The inimitable insurance market has to ensure it remains attractive in the face of global competition

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  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
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    The 2025 ranking of fast growing companies in the Asia-Pacific region. Including: the Philippines looks beyond call centres, India’s Meesho taps WhatsApp, extending EV battery life, and cameras to keep drivers’ eyes on the road

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  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
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    Saga avoids cash crunch as it forecasts lower profit

    The over-50s travel and insurance specialist reported improved underlying profit for 2024

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  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
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    US to seek death penalty for Mangione in UnitedHealthcare killing

    Case involving murder of Brian Thompson has unleashed fraught debates over country’s for-profit healthcare

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  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Exchange traded funds
    First cat bond ETF opens new frontier in low-correlation returns

    Catastrophe bonds linked to randomly occurring natural disasters were previously considered too illiquid for ETFs

  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Lloyd's of London
    Lloyd’s of London chair backs internal CEO replacement

    Bruce Carnegie-Brown endorses Patrick Tiernan as insurance market prepares for three top jobs to change hands

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  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
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    Directors’ Deals: Phoenix executive reduces stake

    Insurer pushes ahead with transformation programme

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  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
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    EU watchdog to set punitive capital rules for insurers holding crypto

    Higher requirements designed to discourage sector from holding digital assets

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  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    UK insurance industry
    Threat of state-sponsored cyber attacks could make UK terror insurer ‘obsolete’, warns Pool Re chief

    Sector is unprepared to handle growing sources of systemic risk, says Tom Clementi

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  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    Patrick Jenkins
    Pensions risk: the downside of weight-loss drugs

    The health benefits could be so extreme that it upends the annuity market, hitting retirement incomes and insurers

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  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    India Business Briefing
    Allianz breaks up with India’s Bajaj Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Sunil Mittal looks to expand his holding in BT, and the FT’s exclusive interview with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang

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  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Munich Re
    Munich Re to buy Next Insurance to target ‘significant’ opportunities

    Acquisition values California-based start-up’s shares at $2.6bn

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  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Protectionism will help push up insurance prices, says Lloyd’s of London chief

    John Neal warns geopolitics and regulatory requirements will add to cost of policies

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  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Prudential PLC
    Prudential says profit growth hit by Chinese bond yields

    FTSE 100 insurance group sees opportunities in Asian consumers’ low level of cover

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  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Cinven Group
    Cinven sells life insurer after scrutiny of private equity ownership

    Allianz, BlackRock and Japan’s T&D team up to buy Germany’s Viridium in €3.5bn deal

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  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    UK insurance industry
    Hidden ‘double dip’ charges hit UK car insurance customers on monthly contracts

    Regulator probing whether ‘premium finance’ unfairly treats policyholders who do not pay up front

    The FCA  is expected to scrutinise ‘double-dipping’ as part of its probe into premium finance
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