Emerging markets
Lack of data is a big challenge for crop modellers in emerging markets
Over the next decade, as countries such as China, India and Brazil focus on feeding their massive populations, crop insurance is expected to play...
Bancassurance growth to be fostered by emerging markets
The value of commissions earned through bancassurance – the sale of retail insurance products to a commercial bank’s client base – is set to...
98% of UK PE firms agree that traditional due diligence is inadequate for emerging market investments
The overwhelming majority of respondents to a new study on private equity in emerging markets report that traditional due diligence methods fall short in...
Fitch Ratings : emerging markets conference
Fitch Ratings will host an Emerging Markets conference with senior analysts from Fitch Ratings’ global Sovereign, Banks and Corporate teams to discuss positive growth...
International : BRICS vow to improve access to low-cost medicine
The BRICS group of emerging countries vowed to improve access to low-cost and high-quality medicine -- and called on developed nations to shoulder responsibility...
China : will become second biggest insurance market
China is expected to become the second-biggest insurance market in the next 10 years, reinsurer Swiss Re said on Wednesday, noting that the Asian...
Swiss Re sees continued global economic expansion in 2011
Swiss Re's economists predict that growth in the insurance and reinsurance industry will continue to accelerate in 2011 but warn that financial turmoil could...
AXA UK : The deal with Resolution would result in a one-off writedown of 1.4 billion euros ($1.7 billion) in 2010,
Resolution, set up in 2008 to buy and profitably merge slow-growing British life insurers, said on Monday it hoped to complete the 2.75 billion...
QBE appoints Nicola Marshall as Senior Underwriter to the Emerging Markets team
QBE, the specialist business insurer, today announced the appointment of Nicola Marshall as Senior Underwriter to the Emerging Markets team of its growing Professional...
RSA abandons one billion dollar rights issue plan
After unsuccessfully searching the markets for takeover targets, RSA has abandoned plans to raise one billion dollars in a rights issue.
In its effort to...
