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Insurers, Banks, Pension Funds Must Address Climate Change Risks: Report
The world's insurers, banks and pension funds are "inherently susceptible" to threats from climate change and must make adjustments, from shifting investment toward environmentally friendly ...
Insurers, Banks See Red Flag in British Property Panic
The run on British property funds has drawn attention to the vulnerability of the commercial real estate sector, largely funded by domestic banks and building societies but increasingly by foreign ...
Reinsurance Market Softening Slows; Rate Stabilization Remains Elusive: Willis Re
The June/July 2016 renewal season has seen a continuation in market softening, though the magnitude of rate reductions is slowing, according to the latest 1st View Renewals report from Willis Re, the ...
Lightning Could Threaten Millions of Homes Built With a Type of Gas Tubing
Lightning strikes occur approximately 25 million times each year in the U.S., as reported by the National Severe Storms Laboratory. As summer approaches, storm producing lightning strikes could ...
Execs See London Insurance Market as Weathering Brexit Storm
Brexit has created great uncertainty for the UK, the European Union and perhaps the world. Pretty much everyone agrees on that. But there is less agreement about how an EU exit will affect London's ...
China’s Fosun Pledges Ironshore Will Hit IPO ASAP This Year
Fosun Group, China's biggest private conglomerate, will list U.S. property/casualty insurer Ironshore Inc "as soon as possible" this year, Guo Guangchang, the company's billionaire co-founder and ...
U.K. Chooses EU Exit; Cameron Resigns; Financial Services Face Uncertain Future
The U.K. voted to quit the European Union after more than four decades in a stunning rejection of the continent's postwar political and economic order, prompting Prime Minister David Cameron to ...
Allianz Believes Blockchain Tech Will Spur Catastrophe Bond Trading
German insurer Allianz expects the technology underpinning virtual currency bitcoin to encourage trading in catastrophe bonds, which transfer the risk of natural disasters such as hurricanes to ...