US-based retail property, casualty insurance brokerage, employee benefits consultant ABD Insurance and Financial Services has acquired the assets of Northern California's Insurance Associates. Further details of the transaction have not ...
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Canada's life and health insurer, Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services is planning to add the new Pooled Registered Pension Plan (PRPP) to its offerings as soon as it is launched by the federal government. Addition of PRPP ...
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USI Insurance Services has acquired Saint Louis-based Welsch Flatness and Lutz (WFL) and Construction Insurance Partners (CIP), to accelerate expansion as a middle-market insurance brokerage firm in the Greater St Louis metropolitan area. ...
Victorian premier Ted Baillieu. The state government of Victoria has welcomed the return of National Manufacturing Week (NMW) to Melbourne in 2013, as a reflection of its strategy for revitalizing the state’s manufacturing sector. ...
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For more than 40 years, Ocean County College in Toms River has been a popular destination for new graduates, drawing a wide range of students from across the area. The school's notable alumni include New Jersey's own native son, Bruce ...
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,an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford and currently based at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, ...
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Nationwide Financial has increased joint payout rates for The Nationwide Lifetime Income Rider () on its Nationwide Destinationsm Series 2.0 variable annuities. With a joint option, the lifetime payout rates will increase by 0.25% for ...
FinSecure, a member company of W. R. Berkley Corporation, has introduced a secure, online application to help its customers to rapidly and efficiently manage their insurance requirements. Dubbed FinNET LPF, the application is designed to ...
The insurance industry is looking at the possible effects of space weather on the world’s electronic systems. The issue arises, say the insurers, because space weather goes in 11 year cycles and severe events are expected in early ...
Inflation in the UK held at 2.7 per cent for the third consecutive month in December, in line with forecasts, as a result of a rise in gas and electricity bills. Indeed, figures compiled by the Office for National Statistics found that ...
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Post office of Guangdong Province conducted working conference yesterday. the vice governor, Liu Zhigeng, and deputy director of National Post Office, Liu Jun attend the meeting. Last year, portfolio of postal businesses and income of ...
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Azzaman reports that more than 2.5 million tourists visited Iraq in 2012, most of them on pilgrimage to the country’s holy shrines. Data issued by the Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism show that Iraq has become a top destination ...
Writing in the Financial Times, a partner at a London-based financial advisory business suggests Iraq as a true frontier market investment. Citing precedents such as Japan in the early 1960s and Russia in 1995, Richard Greer, a partner at ...
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Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hoshyar Zebari, has received a copy of the credentials of new the Ambassador of the Republic of Italy, Mr. Massimo Marotti, at a ceremony on Sunday morning. During the meeting, they discussed the developing ...
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Iraq’s Minister of Housing and Reconstruction, Mohamed Sahib al-Daraji [Mohammed Al-Deraji] (pictured), has announced that the Housing Fund has finalised contracts with nine investment companies to build new housing complexes. ...
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