• Jardine Lloyd Thompson acquires HSBC Actuaries and Consultants

      Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc (JLT Group) has acquired HSBC Actuaries and Consultants Limited (HACL), a provider of actuarial, employee benefits and financial planning services. Both the companies are based in the UK. JLT Group is a prov...
    • POSCO PICKS WOORI INVESTMENT, 2 OTHERS AS ADVISERS FOR DAEWOO BID

      POSCO (KSE:005490), South Korea's leading steelmaker, said Wednesday that it has chosen Macquarie Group Ltd. (ASX:MQG), Woori Investment Securities Co. (KSE:005940), and Shinhan Investment Corp. to advise on its bid to acquire Daewoo Intern...
    • AMP to Establish Fund JV with China Life

      AMP Capital Investors will set up a joint venture with China Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 601628 and SEHK: 2628) in a bid to enter the rising Chinese public fund and annuity market, revealed a top executive of the Australian company. It...
    • Chaucer Holdings Leads Friday's AMBG as Global Insurance Index Declines 1.14%

      The AMBG closed Friday, Nov. 27, at 789.83 (-1.14%). Of the 15 A.M. Best stock indexes, two rose and 13 declined. Leading A.M. Best's Global Insurance Composite Index (AMBG) were Chaucer Holdings (+5.41%) and 21st Century Holding Co. (+5.21...
    • Sinosure Launches Insurance Policy Financing

      China Export Credit Insurance Corp. (Sinosure) has established insurance policy financing platforms in Guangzhou and Shanghai, from which more small- and medium-sized companies will benefit. Insurance policy financing indicates that compani...
    • China Had CNY3.5trn Insurance Capital for Use

      The Chinese insurance industry totally had CNY 3.5 trillion insurance capital for use in the first ten months of 2009, and it was up 21.05% compared with the number a year ago and 14.34% compared with the number for the 2008 full year, acco...
    • Unemployment insurance taxes for businesses could jump from $90 to $1,070

      The state is looking for ways to dull a staggering jump in unemployment insurance taxes that is forecast to occur as the jobless benefit fund runs out of money. The state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations is reviewing a variety o...
    • Myth of frontier hardihood takes a beating in CDC report

      Well, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention picked a fine time to call us fat. Released shortly before Thanksgiving, their obesity report has us ranked as the 22nd-heaviest state in the union, a little above the national average. T...
    • Vault at state revenue department is home to unclaimed cash, family heirlooms and all manner of bric-

      On Nov. 30, 2002, six 10-ounce silver bars, a handful of coins and a pile of papers were abandoned in a safe-deposit box. After languishing for five years, the silver bars traveled to a new home on the second floor of the Manuel Lujan Build...
    • Aiello joins Whidbey Island Bank as loan officer

      Terry Aiello has joined Whidbey Island Bank, as a real estate loan officer in their Northwest Bellingham Branch. Aiello's lending focus will include FHA, VA, USDA, conventional, land construction and portfolio lending. A long-time resident...
    • Intercambio seeks to expand language program that's now in four Boulder County schools

      Alma Herrera has tried to learn English before, but something always got in the way. She worked jobs that didn't let out until late at night. She had her children to raise. Now she's making real progress with help from a fellow parent at Ca...
    • Corporate retirement adviser fills niche

      Planning for retirement is getting trickier. You've got the recession to deal with, along with a dwindling number of pension plans and a stock market that can't seem to make up its mind. And, who knows what impact the climbing national debt...
    • 14 percent lack any coverage

      A couple years ago, Mark Hunsaker, a Columbia insurance claims adjuster, grew fed up with watching his clients be victimized by uninsured drivers. He said he seemed to be writing out a steady stream of claims for men and women caught in fen...
    • Does health plan need exam?

      Lawmakers writing health care reform legislation in Washington should make a few trips to their local hospitals, Valley hospital executives say. (Lawmakers) need to talk to people in the field, said Michael O'Keefe, Evangelical Community Ho...
    • Cost and convenience drive a rise in urgent-care and retail clinics

      Samuel Decker needed a refill of his asthma medicine, but had no doctor and no health insurance. The 34-year-old glass artist recently moved to Eugene, so he hasn't had time to find a primary-care physician. And his insurance company droppe...
    • Exploring different sides of the health care debate

      In the past four months, activists on both sides of the health care reform debate have participated in loud town halls or rallies, with signs blasting either the state of health care in this country or government reform efforts. But as the...
    • N.J. business leaders eagerly await GOP governor

      Not many governors take office in an economy as bad as the one Governor-elect Chris Christie will inherit in January. And few face a business community as expectant as today's. After nearly a decade of Democratic gubernatorial rule, busines...
    • Corporate regulator dragged into undertaker inquiry - and deservedly so

      Yet another Australian parliamentary inquiry into the corporate liquidation industry will be held. However, this latest one has a distinctive difference in that it will also cover the role played by the Australian Securities Investments Com...
    • Union-town strife rises as money grows tight

      Every day, Joseph Kleponis drives by Town Common on his way to work at Wilmington High School. Lately, the trip has made his blood boil. The culprits? Hundreds of twinkling Christmas lights that have been hung in tree branches around the pa...
    • Safety prime focus as crops come in

      Speed and fatigue can end a farming career permanently. The Iowa Farm Safety Council wants to make sure that doesn't happen. Agriculture is one of the most dangerous professions. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 317 farmers and r...