News - Black empowerment ‘needs review’
Posted on February 19, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
South Africa’s programme to open ownership of the country’s firms to black investors needs to be reviewed, finance minister Trevor Manuel says.
Mr Manuel told the Financial Times that both “good and bad, cynical and genuine” black economic estate finance fundamentals hill in insurance investment irwin management mcgraw real series (BEE) deals had been done.
BEE is […]
Read More...News - How will ISA changes affect you?
Posted on February 15, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
The Treasury has announced that the amount that people will be allowed to save tax-free is to fall. An expert explains the changes and what strategy people should adopt.
When Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) were introduced by Gordon Brown in 1999 the amount that could be paid in was set at 7,000.
At the end […]
Read More...News - Pension crisis: Will anyone fix it?
Posted on February 14, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
How the UK tackles the impending pension crisis is now a major topic of discussion. But will anyone have the guts to fix it in 2005? In the first of a two-part series, Joanne Segars, banking career career finance in insurance opportunity opportunity
insurance firms, outlines the industry’s priorities for the New Year.
2004 was […]
Read More...News - Swiss Re to buy GE insurance firm
Posted on February 13, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
Reinsurer Swiss Re has agreed to pay $6.8bn (4bn) for the insurance unit of industrial giant General Electric.
Swiss Re will sell $7.5bn of new shares to finance the acquisition and cover the debts of GE Insurance Solutions.
Buying the firm will turn Swiss Re into the world’s largest reinsurance company at a time when […]
Read More...News - Insurance firm’s jobs boost
Posted on February 11, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
An American insurance company is set to create 120 jobs in Northern Ireland.
American Life is part of the American International Group - one of the 10 largest companies by turnover in the world.
It currently employs 25 people at its headquarters in Belfast.
The company’s offices were opened on Monday by Cathy Hurst public affairs attache from […]
Read More...News - Swiss Re to buy GE insurance firm
Posted on February 10, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
Reinsurer Swiss Re has agreed to pay $6.8bn (4bn) for the insurance unit of finance insurance zurich giant General Electric.
Swiss Re will sell $7.5bn of new shares to finance the acquisition and cover the debts of GE Insurance Department of insurance and finance.
Buying the firm will turn Swiss Re into the world’s largest […]
Read More...News - Sisters lose second coming cover
Posted on February 9, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
Insurers have withdrawn the cover on their virginity taken out by three sisters in the event of the second coming of Christ.
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The firm said the women from Inverness had renewed the policy since […]
Read More...News - Bank rapped over mortgage letter
Posted on February 8, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
The Halifax bank has been auto car finance insurance rate
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The mailshot, sent to 120,000 mortgage holders with subsidiary Intelligent Finance, asked customers to reveal details of their contents insurance.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld a complaint that Halifax had “no good reason” […]
Read More...News - Star show for India’s ‘mega-wedding’
Posted on February 7, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
The week-long mega-wedding of the two sons of Sahara business group chief Subrata Roy will begin in the northern Indian city of Lucknow on Tuesday.
Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai and cricketers Saurav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar are among the 10,500 guests who have been […]
Read More...News - Star show for India’s ‘mega-wedding’
Posted on February 6, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
The week-long mega-wedding of the two sons of Sahara business group chief Subrata Roy will begin in the northern Indian city of Lucknow on Tuesday.
Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai and cricketers Saurav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar are among the 10,500 guests who have been […]
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