International
Swiss Re to Pay $240M for German Hailstorms
Hailstorms in northern and southern Germany in July will generate a claims burden of approximately $240 million for Swiss Re, the company announced Monday. That figure is net of retrocession and ...
Fidelity Demands Companies Make Exec Pay Plans Longer Term
One of the biggest investors in European companies says it will start voting against boardroom pay plans next year unless firms force executives to hold shares more than three years before cashing ...
Newsmaker: BlackBerry Savior Watsa, an Investor with a Long View
As soon as Prem Watsa stepped down from BlackBerry's board in August, speculation that he would launch a bid for the troubled smartphone maker started to swirl. Six weeks later, the man some call ...Fairfax Sets Floor for BlackBerry with $4.7 Billion Offer
Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry on Monday signed a tentative deal to be acquired by a consortium led by its biggest shareholder, setting a $4.7 billion floor in the auction of the Canadian ...
RBS Raises $1 Billion from Sale of 20% of Direct Line
Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc raised about 630 million pounds ($1 billion) from its third sale of a stake in Direct Line Insurance Group Plc, the U.K.'s biggest home and car insurer. RBS sold ...Japan’s Abe Orders Surviving Fukushima Reactors Scrapped, Pledges Safe Olympics
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the scrapping of two Fukushima nuclear reactors that survived the 2011 tsunami, a write-off that threatens to complicate a turnaround plan the operator has ...
Two Years On: How Nuclear Sells Itself Post-Fukushima
Two years after the catastrophe at Japan's Fukushima plant, sellers of atomic reactors woo potential buyers with the promise that lessons learned from one of the world's worst nuclear disasters make ...
Germany’s Ergo Expects Asia, Eastern Europe Premium Growth
Munich Re's insurance unit, Ergo Versicherungsgruppe, plans to increase international premiums by more than a fifth over the next five years on sales in Asia and eastern Europe. "We aim to increase ...