Sentences with phrase «big insurers like»

Big insurers like MetLife and Prudential Financial, for example, have exited the business altogether.

Not exact matches

Energy and industrial firms are the biggest sectors with nearly half the ETF weight, followed by financials (though not the big banks or insurers) and then consumer discretionary firms like Tim Hortons, Shaw and Cogeco.

The big insurer, which acquired a chain of outpatient surgery centers earlier this year, has a wide array of profitable health care businesses like its own pharmacy benefit manager and various consulting arms through its Optum unit.

At a time like this, where many life insurers, particularly ones facing credit risks, and those having variable policies, where profitability has declined along with the stock market, the surcharges could have kicked additional life insurers over the edge, and who knows how big the cascade would have been.

Many investors fear that an overzealous regulatory environment will end up making big banks and insurers become like utilities.

We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and financial firms unknown to the public — like the fact that the big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the biggest Wall Street firms.

Maybe the Fed would suck in a lot of high coupon, long duration treasuries at that level, and profit off of a bigger spread, kind of like the attitude some life insurers had in the mid-80s.

I mean Genworth, which is one of the other insurers like you said, CMHC being the biggest one, but Genworth is pretty big as well, says that more than one third of mortgage borrowers would struggle to meet the new rules.

At a time like this, where many life insurers, particularly ones facing credit risks, and those having variable policies, where profitability has declined along with the stock market, the surcharges could have kicked additional life insurers over the edge, and who knows how big the cascade would have been.

They proposed fighting insurance fraud and changing the dispute resolution system like the Liberals and making auto insurers accountable to consumers and consumers a bigger part of the process like the NDP.

Because the deductible amount is such a big deciding factor in the total cost of each auto insurance policy, the insurer generally leaves it up to the customer to decide the amount they would like to be responsible for in case of a claim.

Speaking of big - box insurers, one of the simplest pieces of advice we can give you is to work with an independent life insurance agency like JRC.

Our analysis only took into account the biggest auto insurers, but as we found in our analysis of car insurance for teenagers, many smaller companies like Erie can offer lower rates than large companies.