(PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 17-Sep-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Aviva plc, a British multinational insurance company and a member of the FTSE 100 index, has announced the completion of a deal for a £320m bulk purchase annuity transaction with the John Laing … Read the full press release
Posted in Financial, Insurance, Investment, Management, News, United Kingdom
Tagged Aviva, bulk purchase annuity transaction, environmental infrastructure projects, Eversheds Sutherland, insurer, investment, Jamie Cole, John Laing Pension Fund, Linklaters, Mike Clare, Pensioners, renewable energy projects, Shelly Beard, social infrastructure projects, TRANSPORT, Willis Towers Watson
New research from Aviva reveals that getting divorced/ending a long-term relationship (31%) and buying a new home (29%) are life’s most difficult decisions Brits lose almost £231 billion in a year, on average, due to being indecisive More than a quarter (26%) … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Financial, Insurance, Management, News, Society, United Kingdom
Tagged Aviva, Brits, Damilola Taylor, decision-making, hours of lost sleep, indecisiveness, insurer, Jo Hemmings, Katie Piper, Leroy Logan MBE, nights’ sleep, online teaching academy, overcome hesitancy, procrastination, Raj Kumar, RESEARCH, Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, UK adults, Vanessa O’Brien, “Aviva Decision School”
(PRESS RELEASE) ZURICH, 18-Aug-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Swiss Re, the world’s second-largest reinsurer, has announced it made leadership changes at its Reinsurance Business Unit. As of 1 January 2022 Julie Stephenson will succeed Jason Richards as Global Head of Casualty … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Insurance, Management, News, Switzerland
Tagged appointments, CNA, insurance, insurer, Jason Richards, Julie Stephenson, leadership, Moses Ojeisekhoba, reinsurance, Reinsurance Business, Swiss Re
A key milestone supporting HSBC’s ambition to be Asia’s leading insurance and wealth provider Strengthening Singapore as a global wealth hub for HSBC (PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 16-Aug-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — HSBC Holdings plc, one of the world’s largest banking and … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Financial, Insurance, Management, News, United Kingdom
Tagged acquisition, ASEAN wealth business, asset management, AXA Insurance Pte Limited, AXA Singapore, HSBC, HSBC Holdings plc, HSBC Insurance Holdings Ltd, insurance, insurer, Noel Quinn, Nuno Matos, Personal Banking, private banking, wealth franchise, wealth manager
Aviva takes on the most demanding target of any major insurance company in the world today (PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 1-Mar-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — British multinational insurance company Aviva announces its plan to become a Net Zero carbon emissions company by … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Financial, Insurance, Investment, Management, News, United Kingdom
Tagged Amanda Blanc, Andrew Griffith, Aviva, carbon emissions, carbon transition loans, Climate Action, climate change, climate crisis, COP26, green financial system, insurance company, insurer, investments, Kwasi Kwarteng, Make My Money Matter, net zero, Net Zero carbon emissions company, operations, Paris Agreement, renewable assets, renewable electricity, renewable energy, Richard Curtis, Science Based Targets initiative, supply chain
(PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 4-Jan-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — British multinational insurance company Aviva announces the appointment of Mark Versey as Chief Executive of Aviva Investors, effective immediately*. Mark, currently Chief Investments Officer, Real Assets, at Aviva Investors will join Aviva’s Group … Read the full press release
Posted in Insurance, Investment, Management, News, United Kingdom
Tagged Amanda Blanc, Andrew Reid, appointment, asset management, Aviva, Aviva Investors, Euan Munro, insurer, investments, Jakub Rosochowski, Marion Fischer, Mark Versey
(PRESS RELEASE) PARIS, 30-Nov-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — French multinational insurance firm AXA has entered into an agreement with Gulf Insurance Group (“GIG”) for the sale of its insurance operations in the Gulf region, this includes its shareholding¹ in AXA Gulf, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, France, Insurance, Investment, Management, News
Tagged Aayush Poddar, Andrew Wallace-Barnett, AXA, AXA Cooperative Insurance Company, AXA Green Crescent Insurance Company, AXA Gulf, Fairfax, Farah El Mamoune, François Boissin, GIG, Gulf Insurance Group, Gulf region, insurance, insurance expertise, insurer, Jonathan Deslandes, Julien Parot, KIPCO, Mathias Schvallinger, Mikaël Malaganne, Sarah Andersen, Shuqi Ye, THOMAS BUBERL, YBA Kanoo, Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo
(PRESS RELEASE) ZURICH, 21-Sep-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) announces an exclusive reforestation sponsorship in The Atlantic Forest initiative in Brazil. The targeted, sustainable reforestation project will see 1 million trees planted to transform a barren farmland back … Read the full press release
Posted in Environment, Insurance, News, Society, Switzerland
Tagged 1.5°C Pledge, 2020 UN Global Biodiversity Outlook 5, addressing climate change, Alison Martin, Atlantic Forest initiative, biodiversity, biodiversity loss, Brazil, Brazilian rainforest, Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, climate change, conservation, Covid-19 pandemic, curbing climate change, deforestation, ecological conservation, healthy ecosystems, Healthy forests, Instituto Terra, insurance policies, insurer, Lélia, Minas Gerais, monoculture plantations, preventing future pandemics, rainforest, reforestation, reforestation project, reforestation sponsorship, restore biodiversity, Rimba Raya, Sebastião Salgado, tree planting, UN Business Ambition, Zurich, Zurich Insurance Group, ‘green deserts’
(PRESS RELEASE) HELSINKI, 31-Aug-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — Finnish Aktia Life Insurance, part of Aktia Bank (HEL: AKTIA), has announced it will have a new CEO beginning of 1 September, 2020. The insurer’s current Director of Business Development and Board member … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Financial, Finland, Insurance, Investment, Management, News
Tagged Aktia Bank, Aktia Life Insurance, appointment, assets management, bank, BANKING, CEO, Finnish asset manager, insurer, Juha Hammarén, life insurance, life insurer, Mandatum Life, Riikka Luukko, Seppo Sibakov
(PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 24-Apr-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Aviva has announced that Aviva’s Group Chief Risk Officer Angela Darlington will assume the interim CEO position of UK Insurance as Andy Briggs has decided to step down as CEO UK Insurance and … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Insurance, Management, News, United Kingdom
Tagged acquisition, Andrew Reid, Andy Briggs, appointments, Aviva, CEO, Chief Risk Officer, Chris Esson, clawback provisions, Colm Holmes, Diane Michelberger, Friends Life, insurer, leadership, malus provisions, Maurice Tulloch, Nigel Prideaux, Patrick Dixneuf, remuneration payments, Sir Adrian Montague, UK Insurance
ZEIST, ZURICH, 05-Jun-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Achmea announced today that it will partner with Zurich Insurance Group (‘Zurich’) to improve business efficiency using self-service-enabling technology of InShared, the digital insurer of Achmea. InShared’s IT-platform is fully designed around online service, from … Read the full press release
Posted in Insurance, Management, Netherlands, Switzerland
Tagged Achmea, claims_settlement, digital insurer, InShared, insurance, insurer, policy_management, Zurich Insurance Group
A major leap forward in AXA’s strategic journey Creating the leading global P&C Commercial lines player across all lines Strong complementarities expected to fuel future earnings growth and value creation Effective use of proceeds from the planned US IPO and intended subsequent sell-downs, at Ambition 2020 targets reaffirmed … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, France, Insurance, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged acquisition, AXA, Doina Palici-Chehab, Greg Hendrick, insurer, MIKE MCGAVICK, reinsurer, Rob BROWN, THOMAS BUBERL, XL Group Ltd
Allianz brand tops the Insurance Top 50 ranking for third year in a row Allianz is the only insurer to rank amongst the world’s 50 strongest brands in 2016 Brand value of Allianz at €18.6bn, up 8.1% from 2015 MUNICH, … Read the full press release
Vienna Insurance Group new market leader in Macedonia 20-5-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Vienna Insurance Group AG Wiener Versicherung Gruppe (VIG) has concluded the acquisition of a majority stake in QBE Makedonija. VIG has acquired 92.9 percent of the voting rights in the Macedonian … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Business, Financial, Insurance, Investment, North Macedonia
Tagged acquisition, insurer, majority stake, Makedonija, QBE Makedonija, Vienna Insurance Group, VIG
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