Assets & Investments
Financial Analysis: Why Regional Writer ROEs Lag Nationals
A comparison of the returns on equity of national and regional writers of property/casualty insurance produces a result that may not seem terribly intriguing: National writers win, hands down. But ...
Generali Sees Profit Potential in Expanded Asset Management Operations
Generali is looking to buy portfolio management teams to expand its asset management operations and beef up its fee-based business, the Italian group said after reporting a 9 percent fall in ...
French Insurer AXA Moves to Cut Stake in AllianceBernstein With U.S. IPO
A week after Axa SA ousted Peter Kraus from its AllianceBernstein Holding LP unit, the French insurer is taking steps to reduce its financial investment in the money manager to raise cash for deals. ...
Berkshire Hathaway Unloads Wells Fargo Shares to Get Below Fed’s Ownership Threshold
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. sold more than 7 million shares of Wells Fargo & Co. stock and plans to divest additional shares to get below the Federal Reserve's 10 percent threshold ...
Cat Bond Issuance Hit $2.3B in Q1 as Market Habits Shifted: PCS
Catastrophe bond issuance reached $2.3 billion in the 2017 first quarter, a record level that landed slightly higher than the same period a year ago, the Property Claims Services Unit of Verisk ...
China’s Anbang Insurance and Kushner End Manhattan Tower Deal Talks
China's Anbang Insurance Group Co. and a company co-owned by the family of President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner have ended talks to redevelop a Manhattan office tower, a deal that had ...
China’s Anbang Insurance Denies Investment in Kushner-Owned Manhattan Office Tower
China's Anbang Insurance Group said it is not investing in a flagship Manhattan office tower owned by the family of Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser. Anbang ...
New Bond Chief for Allianz’s PIMCO Boosts Returns and Investments Alike
After star money manager Bill Gross left in 2014, Pacific Investment Management Co. seemed destined to fade from prominence and become just one of the many firms that dot the U.S. bond-industry ...