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CARPE DIEM (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, writing in today's WSJ, suggests that the health-care debate is part of a larger moral struggle over the free-enterprise sys tem, here's an excerpt: We will continue to hear both sides of the health-care debate argue about particulars of insurance markets, the deficit impacts of reform, and the minutiae of budgetary assumptions. These arguments,...
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iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
WSH is one of the few insurance companies that have remained promising in current tough global insurance markets. The company has negotiated the soft insurance pricing cycle extremely well, and has been consistently generating industry-leading operating margins and organic revenue growth over the last several years. [More...]
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CARPE DIEM (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
President Obama : A recent report actually shows that, in the past three years, over 12 million Americans were discriminated against by health insurance companies because of a pre-existing condition. MP: Doesn't this demonstrate a basic misunderstanding on the part of President Obama about how private insurance markets work? Consider these examples: 1. You call the State Farm Insurance Company to purchase...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
Jardine Lloyd Thompson said most insurance markets remained competitive with limited premium rate rises as the effects of the slowdown on demand balanced out declines in the industry's capacity to write new business
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InformedTrades (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Recent Posts. Insurance markets in everything · Counter-cyclical asset: Safes · What is driving the eBooks boom? Stockholm Public Library · The...
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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 02/27/2009
Low Carbon Economy : Insurance markets could fail as a consequence of climate change, according to a new report from the Chartered Insurance Institute. The industry is urged to make an independent index of market robustness and to use its involvement in $55 trillion worth of assets to try to halt the worst impacts of climate change. Most obviously, the insurance industry is at risk from increasingly...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 02/27/2009
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zacks.com announces the latest Industry Outlook. Today’s outlook from Zacks Equity Research analyst Neena Mishra discusses the U.S. Insurance markets. Highlighted stocks include:
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 02/13/2009
Insurance industry in the markets of South East Europe remains very fragmented and with numerous limitations to free flow of capital. However, it is bound to continue its astonishing development and is regarded to be one of the most important future markets for European companies. Insurance premium growth rates, already double-double digit figures in most countries of the region, are expected to accelerate...