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Former Willis CEO Plumeri Joins Buyout Firm KKR as Senior Advisor
KKR & Co., the buyout firm run by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, hired former insurance executive Joseph Plumeri as a senior adviser to help find new deals and to work with portfolio companies. ...
Fairfax Financial to Sell American Safety Reinsurance to Catalina
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. agreed to sell a Bermuda-based reinsurance unit that's being acquired as part of a deal with American Safety Insurance Holdings Inc. to Catalina Holdings Bermuda Ltd. ...
Blackstone in Talks to Buy Stake in Goldman’s U.K. Insurer: Source
Blackstone Group LP, the world's biggest private-equity firm, is in talks to buy a stake in Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s European insurance business, according to a person with direct knowledge of the ...
Markel Bets on Homebuilding, Acquires Virginia’s Eagle Construction
Markel Corp., the insurer that bought Alterra Capital Holdings Ltd., acquired Eagle Construction of Virginia in a bet on residential development in its home state. Eagle will be the 14th company in ...
Hong Kong’s Li Eyes Ex-AIA Deputy as CEO for New Insurer
Hong Kong businessman Richard Li, the youngest son of Asia's richest man, will appoint a former top executive at AIA Group Ltd as the CEO of his new insurance company, according to people with direct ...
Free Work Entices Businesses to Hire Long-Term Unemployed
After conducting almost 10,000 job interviews during 10 years as a human resources manager, Tom Kaminski says he thought he knew enough about the labor market to keep his own bout of unemployment ...
Best-Paid Women in S&P 500 Settle for Less with 18% Gender Gap
Even the few women who've managed to advance to the C-suite don't get equal pay. Last year, of the five best-paid executives at each of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index companies, 198 were women, ...
Zurich’s Hogan Rejoins AIG As Consumer Insurance CEO
American International Group has named Kevin Hogan as chief executive officer of AIG Global Consumer Insurance. Hogan, who previously had a 24-year career at AIG, is expected to formally rejoin AIG ...