All articles by Peter Maynard
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Features
Group risks in the e-world
The management of group risk benefits is in the process of elevation from an art to a science. No longer is employee benefit provision and the risks involved the sole preserve of HR. “It’s no longer a case of HR simply buying insurance products,” says Tony Salter of consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers’ ...
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Europe's biggest LTCI market
Long-term care insurance (LTCI) is booming in France: the market has grown by almost 50% in the last 18 months. Everything is relative, of course, and total sales amount to just 750,000 policies sold, and that is over a 15-year period. Although LTCI policies have been around for a long ...
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Insurers angle for pensions share
The domination of French life assurance by bancassurance seems unstoppable. In a market worth FF450bn (€72bn), bancassurers have a massive 67% share. Sara Fenelon, of reassurer SCOR Vie, attributes this to strong customer relationships. “The banks are very close to their customers, especially in towns and villages in rural France. ...
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Keen eye for pensions assets
Swedish life companies are going through a period of significant change and development. In the news currently is the acquisition of SPP Liv, SPP Fonder and the SPP brand by Handelsbanken, leaving the remainder of the SPP organisation to trade under the name Alecta. SPP Liv was created in 1994 ...
