Investment Officers
AIG to Appeal California Ruling Allowing PIMCO Suit to Proceed
American International Group Inc. failed to persuade a judge to throw out a lawsuit by Pacific Investment Management Co. over investments that were wiped out because of the insurer's exposure to ...
France’s AXA Will Divest its $2B in Tobacco Industry Assets
AXA SA, France's largest insurer, said it will stop investing in tobacco and divest all of its 1.8 billion euros ($2 billion) of assets in the industry. AXA will sell about 200 million euros of stock ...
Egan Cuts Ties with Reinsurance Venture Partner Oaktree Capital
Bill Egan, the former Bank of America Corp. banker who was working with Oaktree Capital Group LLC to start a reinsurance venture, has cut ties with the asset manager, according to people familiar ...
Activist Investor Carl Icahn Buys More AIG Shares
Activist investor Carl Icahn has raised his stake in American International Group Inc by 5.2 percent, putting him in a better position to pressure the insurer to split into three independent ...
Allianz Asset-Management Profit Plunges 17 Percent Due to PIMCO Struggles
Allianz SE's asset-management unit, struggling to contain outflows at Pacific Investment Management Co. over the past three years, reported a 17 percent decline in first-quarter earnings as outflows ...
Unlike Buffett, S&P Sees ‘Considerable’ Climate Change Impact for Insurers
While the overall impact of climate change on the insurance industry is difficult to quantify, the multilayered effects of regulation, reputation and litigation will be "considerable" over the long ...
AIG Again Dips into ILS Financing for Mortgage Insurance Arm
AIG has nailed down nearly $300 million of indemnity reinsurance coverage for its mortgage insurance business, expanding on its initial use of ILS financing for the division nearly a year ago. The ...
Two Sigma Co-Founder Siegel: Machines Taking Over Human Jobs Worrisome
David Siegel, co-founder of $35 billion quantitative hedge fund Two Sigma, says he's "very worried" that machines could soon cost large swaths of the global workforce their jobs. "Most people in the ...