insurance companies

The public markets saw a record number of IPOs and capital raised in 2021. Around 1,500 companies went public via traditional IPO, direct listing or via SPAC merger. Public listings in 2021 raised over $490 billion. Here is a look at the five worst-performing IPOs of 2021. (A previous...

The finance sector relies on numerous middlemen. And they’re making out like bandits.  In traditional payment systems, you invariably go through a middleman, such as Mastercard Inc (NYSE: MA) or Visa Inc (NYSE: V) … Western Union (NYSE: WU) … or a bank that issues...

As autonomous vehicles draw ever nearer, everyone’s eyes are on Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), an innovator positioned to disrupt the wider U.S. economy. The firm’s ingenuity threatens to render longstanding services and products obsolete, wholly eliminating jobs, skills, companies and...

Dennis Haysbert famously asks TV viewers if they are in "good hands" with their insurance plans. But ask analysts at Deutsche Bank if a position in Allstate Corp (NYSE: ALL) would be in "good hands" in a portfolio and the answer is not necessarily. Joshua Shanker downgraded...

Zurich Insurance Group, one of the world's largest global insurance companies, proposed earlier this month the addition of a notable fintech leader to its board of directors. Zurich's Annual General Meeting will take place on March 29 and investors will chose to elect Catherine Bessant for...

Earlier this year, the report, "Institutional Investment in ETFs: Versatility Fuels Growth" from Greenwich Associates, commissioned by BlackRock, the world's largest issuer of exchange-traded funds, said institutional investors were expected to continue increasing their use of ETFs....

Analysts at BMO Capital Markets made several changes to their price targets and ratings of insurance companies. Chubb Downgraded To Market Perform Charles Sebaski of BMO Capital Markets downgraded shares of Chubb Ltd (NYSE: CB) to Market Perform from Outperform with a price target raised to $136...

Former Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment on Wednesday to discuss the Federal Reserve's monetary policy and what sectors could be most impacted. According to Fisher, a low interest rate environment may pose a notable risk for insurance companies. In fact...

The deadly tornadoes that swept through the Midwest last weekend are expected to become the insurance industry's first billion-dollar severe weather event to ever take place in November – and they've sent insurance companies scrambling to assess the damage. Matthew Neilsen, director and...

The fact that people are living longer now than at any other time in history means there is an unusually high number of senior citizens alive in the United States. The Baby Boomer generation has begun entering retirement age, and a number of companies now catering to seniors may be smart stock...