Articles by Julie Edde

Allianz Beats Q2 Profit Estimates with Help of PIMCO Bond Fund Unit

Allianz SE said strong growth across its businesses lifted second-quarter profit as Europe’s largest insurer keeps the market waiting on any acquisitions it will undertake. The gains help keep Allianz on track to meet its full-year earnings targets, Europe’s biggest …

AXA Gives Under-Fire CEO Buberl a Needed Boost on Strong H1 Profits

AXA SA gave under-fire Chief Executive Officer Thomas Buberl a needed boost with first-half earnings that beat estimates and growth in new business. AXA, posting its first results since a disappointing partial spinoff of the French insurer’s U.S. unit, reported …

UK Faces ‘Abject Future’ After Brexit, Warns Former Lloyd’s Chairman

The U.K. is facing a grim future after Brexit because of the failure of the its politicians to govern responsibly, the former chairman of insurance market Lloyd’s of London wrote in a letter to the Financial Times. “Never in over …

Interest in Crypto Insurance Grows, Despite High Premiums, Broad Exclusions

In the staid and buttoned-up world of insurance underwriting, few want to talk about it. You won’t find many ads promoting it or details on company websites offering it. But according to industry insiders, there’s a hot new business that …

Young Consumers Willing to Let Insurers Spy on Digital Data – If It Cuts Premiums

The majority of people between 18 and 34 would be willing to let insurance companies dig through their digital data from social media to health devices if it meant lowering their premiums, a survey shows. In the younger group, 62 …

Allianz Eyes M&A Targets Zurich, Hartford, QBE, Argo and More After Missing Out on XL

A $94 billion financial behemoth is keeping the market on tenterhooks about its next move. Europe’s largest insurer, Allianz SE, is in the early stages of evaluating a variety of potential acquisition targets as deal-hungry Chief Executive Officer Oliver Baete …

Insurers Fear U.S. Economic Slowdown, Inflation: Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s asset-management unit, which oversees $250 billion for insurers, said an economic slowdown in the U.S. is the biggest investment risk for the industry for the first time since the financial crisis. “Insurers expressed a growing consensus …

AXA Investment Managers Bullish About Europe as Asian Investors’ Interest Grows

Andrea Rossi doesn’t buy into the story that Europe is a dead end for growth. In fact, he sees luring Asian investors to his continent as one of the key ways AXA Investment Managers will expand in years to come. …

Allianz Reports 22% Drop in Q4 Profit but Still Plans Dividend Hike

A record year for natural-disaster insurance claims worldwide and a decline in fourth quarter profit wasn’t enough to stop Allianz SE from raising its dividend. Europe’s biggest insurer will increase the dividend for 2017 by 5.3 percent to 8 euros …