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State Farm Life Insurance Review
State Farm sells several types of life insurance, including term, whole and universal life insurance policies. The company offers multiple life insurance riders to enhance coverage. Its term life rates are a bit higher than those of the best term…
Canara HSBC Life Insurance Q3 net profit falls 5.7%, net premium income rises 42.9%
Private sector insurer Canara HSBC Life Insurance on Wednesday reported a 5.69 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) decline in net profit to ₹27.65 crore for the third quarter this fiscal, even as its net premium income grew more than 40 per cent…
UN Assembly president defends multilateralism, UN Charter in Davos
Speaking at the session Who Brokers Trust Now? at the World Economic Forum, Annalena Baerbock warned that multilateral institutions – long seen as the brokers of global trust – are under unprecedented strain as conflicts multiply and…
'A cash advance on your death': the strange, morbid world of Aids profiteering
During the summer of 2020, at the onset of the Covid pandemic, the documentary director Matt Nadel was back home in Boca Raton, Florida. He remembers one particular evening walk that he took with his father, Phil, as they weathered out those early…
Roy Cooper Attacks Health Insurers As Campaign Takes Industry Donations
Last week, former North Carolina Governor and Senate Candidate Roy Cooper hosted a roundtable where he discussed skyrocketing healthcare costs. Health care costs are skyrocketing and instead of making life easier, insurance companies and Washington…
2026 Direct Lending Outlook: Finding Opportunity On The Horizon
The environment was quite constructive to start 2025, with significant deal flow carrying over from 2024 and expectations for improved business conditions. Business and economic conditions are now becoming clearer with reasonable economic growth…
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SBI Life's ad trades fear for fun with Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja
For decades, life insurance advertising in India has been anchored in a single, dominant emotion: fear—of loss, uncertainty, and being unprepared for life's inevitable challenges. SBI Life Insurance's latest campaign, however, is attempting…
Announcement of guidance for 2026. Strong performance in 2025 leads to distribution of DKK 2.4 billion
Profit for 2025 exceeds financial targets Insurance revenue for 2025 was DKK 11.8 billion. The insurance service result came to DKK 1.91 billion, thereby exceeding the financial target set at the beginning of the past strategy period of an…
Dodge & Cox International Stock Fund Q4 2025 Shareholder Letter (DODFX)
Dodge & Cox International Stock Fund outperformed the MSCI ACWI ex USA by more than 600 basis points, driven by our active stock selection. The Fund's investments in large European banks continued to perform well, driven by a combination of an…
Errors of commission
For long, India's insurance industry has got by with opaque and high commission payouts to its intermediaries, even as most other financial products providers, including mutual funds and National Pension System, have moved to transparent, low-cost…
Bitcoin Enters Delaware Life's Retirement Annuity Portfolio
Delaware Life Insurance Company is adding limited Bitcoin-linked exposure to its retirement annuity portfolio through an index developed by BlackRock. The insurer will offer an index that blends US stocks with a small, risk-managed allocation to…
Guardian India appoints Karunakaran Azhisur as India Head
Guardian India Operations Private Limited, the global capability centre for The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, has announced the appointment of Karunakaran Azhisur as Country Head - India. In his new role as the Country Head - India…
Exclusive: Alphabet's CapitalG names Jill Chase and Alex Nichols as general partners
I love watching “Next Man Up” basketball, where the spotlight rotates unpredictably. One night it's the bench guard dropping 30, the next it's the role player posting a triple-double. CapitalG's Jill Chase—who captained her…
Taiwan-US deal seen boosting growth
Barclays PLC raised its forecast for Taiwan's growth after the nation reached a trade deal with the US, although the bank joined other forecasters in seeing some downward pressure on the New Taiwan dollar over the medium-term. Barclays raised its…
Join Elon Musk's xAI: Seeking Creative Talent Engineers
Elon Musk's xAI is on the lookout for talent: If your creativity is often praised and your friends see you as a 'people person,' you might be the right fit for a role with one of the world's wealthiest individuals. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and…
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