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U.S. Banks’ $100 Billion Legal Tab for Financial Crisis Exceeds Combined Profit
The six biggest U.S. banks, led by JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp., have piled up $103 billion in legal costs since the financial crisis, more than all dividends paid to ...
U.S. 2-Year Note Sale Lures Insurance Companies
The Treasury sold two-year notes at a lower-than-forecast yield as direct bidders, a group that includes pension funds and insurance companies, bought their biggest share of the auction since April. ...Sills Taking Capitol Insurance Reins; Pauly Announces Plan To Retire
Capitol Insurance Companies announced Tuesday that its chairman and chief executive officer, David F. Pauly, intends to retire effective Dec. 31, 2013. In advance of his retirement, Pauly will step ...
Future Profit Projections: Moody’s Analysis of Commercial Combined Ratios
Given the current level of commercial insurance price increases, which are outpacing loss ratio trends, analysts at Moody's Investors Service forecast that underwriting margins will also continue to ...
Commercial Insurance Rate Hikes Continuing; WC Profit Ahead in ’14: Moody’s
Moody's expects property/casualty commercial insurance rate hikes to continue for the balance of the year, making 2013 the third straight full year of rising rates for commercial lines carriers, ...
Zurich Insurance CFO Wauthier Committed Suicide, Zug Police Say
Pierre Wauthier, chief financial officer of Zurich Insurance Group AG, probably committed suicide at his home, according to police. He was 53. An autopsy to determine the cause of death "clearly ...
How Activist Investors Are Taking Executives’ Scalps at Big Companies
Activist investors from Carl Icahn to Daniel Loeb and Bill Ackman are ratcheting up their campaigns, increasingly targeting America's biggest companies and seeking the ouster of chief executive ...
G20 Leaders Seen Endorsing Shadow Banking Rules
World leaders are expected to take a softly-softly approach to regulating the so-called shadow banking sector when they meet in Russia next month to avoid damaging the flow of finance to the global ...