Generali CEO Says Insurer Has Financial Strength for M&A Deals March 12, 2024 By Sonia Sirletti Italian insurance giant Assicurazioni Generali SpA has the financial means for acquisitions that fit its template for value creation, according...
Generali CEO’s Strategic Wishlist Includes €10 Billion Deals March 7, 2024 By Sonia Sirletti , Daniele Lepido and Tommaso Ebhardt Assicurazioni Generali SpA is analyzing a range of potential takeover candidates as part of the insurer’s growth plans, with some...
UK Pension Funds Back Next Phase of Post-Brexit Shakeup in City of London July 11, 2023 By Huw Jones Aviva, Legal & General and seven other pension firms intend to invest 50 billion pounds ($64 billion) in unlisted companies...
Aegon to Merge Dutch Arm With Insurer ASR Nederland in $4.9 Billion Deal October 27, 2022 Aegon NV is combining its operations in the Netherlands with insurer ASR Nederland NV, in a bid for market dominance...
Hungary Eyes Raising Domestic Ownership in Sectors Such as Insurance May 19, 2022 Hungary should boost domestic ownership in more key sectors in addition to banking, media and energy, a cabinet minister-designate said...
Vienna Insurance Group Completes Purchase of Aegon’s Hungary Business for €620M March 24, 2022 By L.S. Howard Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) acquired the business of the Dutch insurer Aegon in Hungary for €620 million ($682.6 million) after...
EU Orders Hungary to Cancel Its Veto of Sale of Aegon Unit to Vienna Insurance February 22, 2022 By Aoife White Hungary was ordered by the European Union to cancel its decision to block the sale of Dutch insurer’s Aegon NV’s...
Global Life Insurers Adapt Pandemic Risk Models After Unexpected Jump in Claims January 13, 2022 By Carolyn Cohn and Noor Zainab Hussain A coronavirus pandemic which lasts five years, another pandemic in a decade, and ever more transmissible variants are among the...
Vienna Insurance Agrees to Share Ownership of Hungary Unit to Save Aegon Deal December 28, 2021 By Marton Eder Vienna Insurance Group AG agreed to share ownership of its Hungarian operations with a state investment fund after months of...
European Commission Clears Vienna Insurance Acquisition of Aegon’s Businesses August 13, 2021 The European Commission has granted competition law clearance for Vienna Insurance Group’s proposed acquisition of Aegon’s businesses in Central and...