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Generali targets smaller insurance companies to grow in Europe

The central and eastern Europe small and medium size insurance firms, which are unable to cope with complex regulation, are potential targets, Donnet added.

DouglasBay Capital III Fund’s €335 Million Fundraising

DBAY Advisors’ core team has been working together for nearly 15 years and combines a diversified set of skills from financial and operational backgrounds, with deep insight into a number of industry sectors.

It felt like Fatal Attraction, says wife stalked by her hedge fund boss husband's mistress

But when she told him she was carrying his child, the wealthy 55-year-old broke off their affair, sparking a barrage of abuse towards his wife, the court heard.

PWC: UK insurers could bag £49.5bn ‘disruption’ boost by 2030

The report said that emerging risks and new tech could “drive disruption in commercial lines insurance equivalent to 25 percent of current revenues”, with an estimated market uplift of £27.6 billion by 2030.

House prices rebound in April

In terms of housing activity, the number of homes being bought and sold remained steady.

Fairstone acquires Leicester adviser

Brett & Randall, which specialises in the management of investment and retirement portfolios and is based in Leicester, will bring across three advisers and seven support staff.

Assenagon's infrastructure debt funds exceed €1bn

These projects include, amongst others, several airports and harbours, various wind and solar power plants, a seawater desalination plant, several social housing projects and a number of transport routes and means of transportation.

Baillie Gifford opens office in Germany

Frankfurt is just the start of this journey to extend the reach of our existing team in Edinburgh and explore opportunities across the region.

New MGA platform targeting European insurance market launches

By reliably tackling the operational complexity, Ekkore serves as a key success factor for any party involved into an MGA project, either an underwriting agency itself, a broker, an insurer or a reinsurer.”

Former Aon president McGill sees opportunity as M&As limit choice

“When you look at the corporate client sector, especially as the accounts became larger or more complex, there was a lack of choice because of the M&A activity that had taken place in the industry over time.

Precise changes affordability test

Precise is now accepting top-slicing on all eligible personal ownership, limited company, portfolio, house of multiple occupancy, and holiday and student let applications, but first-time buyers are excluded.

Hargreaves Lansdown reveals favourite funds in April

Global equity funds are generally popular with Hargreaves Lansdown clients at present

Woodford to shake up flagship fund

Mr Woodford promised that the unquoted exposure in the equity income fund would drop below 10 per cent by the end of this year.

Will you stay at Prince Charles’ B&B?

The Castle of Mey was bought by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and renovated from 1952 to 1996, then handed over to The Queen Elizabeth Castle of Mey Trust.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (Japan) selected Acumen-net to be deployed across 6 Overseas Offices to support their Treasury Operations

SuMiTB was also looking for the solution with a single common database to facilitate its global system management while overcoming the induced challenges of time zones, volume and confidentiality across offices.

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