International
Ex-AIG CEO Greenberg at 90: ‘You Got to Fight’
Maurice "Hank" Greenberg spent some of his 90th birthday party like he's spent much of the past decade: angry. As he addressed his family at a lunch at a private estate this month, one of his sons ...
AXA to Acquire SulAmérica’s Commercial Lines Unit
AXA has agreed to acquire 100 percent of with SulAmérica SA's large industrial and commercial risks insurance subsidiary, SulAmérica Companhia de Seguros Gerais, for 135 million Brazilian real ...
AXA Chief Outlines Climate Strategy
AXA Chairman and CEO Henri de Castries spoke at Climate Finance Day on May 22 in Paris. The following are his remarks in which he discusses what climate change means for the insurance industry as ...
Insurer AXA Joins Coal Divestment Movement Over Climate Change Risk
France's largest insurer will scrap holdings in coal companies because of concerns about climate change, broadening support for the fossil-fuel divestment movement to a major mainstream investor. AXA ...
8 Trends Tied to How Millennials Differ from Prior Generations
As the largest generation in U.S. history, millennials have a lot of potential to change the investment landscape. A couple of weeks ago Goldman Sachs sent out a research note detailing which ...
U.K.’s FCA Finds Small Companies Treated Poorly by Insurers
The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) criticized the insurance industry for "poor practices" and "significant" failures in handling claims for small and medium-sized companies. The regulator ...
PartnerRe to EXOR: Original M&A Deal With AXIS is Moving Ahead
PartnerRe has decided to seek shareholder approval of its original merger agreement with AXIS Capital, following EXOR's de facto rejection of an offer to meet and discuss its own, unsolicited bid. ...
BP Resolves Oil Spill-Related Claims With Hailiburton, Transocean
BP Plc has settled with oilfield services provider Halliburton Co and contract driller Transocean Ltd cross claims related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the worst offshore disaster in U.S. ...