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Berkshire Hathaway Builds Stake in Synchrony, but Exits Its Former Parent GE
Warren Buffett has long preached the importance of investing in businesses that are hard for competitors to copy. That may be part of why his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. built a $520 million stake in ...
Reinsurers Now Much More Likely to Report Natural Disaster-Related Underwriting Loss: S&P
Things could get rougher for global reinsurers if annual natural catastrophe claims keep moving closer to the long-term average, Standard & Poor's said in a new report. It turns out that upward ...
Post-Hurricane Andrew, Miami Is Increasingly Vulnerable to Catastrophic Storm Damage: Swiss Re
Almost 25 years have passed since a Category 5 hurricane struck south of Miami, and the city's vulnerability to catastrophic storm damage has grown exponentially, according to a new insurance ...
Insurance M&A Deals Now at Lowest Level Since 2015: Clyde & Co.
The volume of completed mergers and acquisitions in the global insurance industry continued dropping during the first six months of 2017 to 170 deals, compared to 186 deals reported for the second ...
Leaked Federal Climate Reports Could Slow Rollback of Federal Regulations
A pair of highly anticipated government studies, one of them due to be released this week, could complicate President Donald Trump's effort to roll back federal climate regulations, according to ...
Smaller Businesses Less Happy With Their Insurance: J.D. Power
Not all small businesses are the same when it comes to customer satisfaction with their commercial insurance. There are actually widening satisfaction gaps among small businesses of different sizes, ...
Aon Benfield Is Latest Broker to View Cat Bond Issuance as Hitting Historic Highs
Another insurance broker has concluded that insurance-linked securities are reaching record issuance levels. Aon Securities, Aon Benfield's investment banking division, determined that catastrophe ...
Allianz, Generali, Zurich and More Called Out for $361M in Coal Investments
A climate activist group is calling out a handful of European insurers for having significant holdings in fossil fuels despite pledges by the companies to be more climate friendly. A report released ...