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Brookfield owns the Utmost link between Equitable Life and Just.
Want an explanation? Brookfield are investing in Just, Brookfield are investing in Utmost and Utmost are the renamed Equitable Life. Utmost are what is known in offshore financial services as a “death insurance company” A death company? Utmost is … Continue reading
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Tagged Brookfield, DB pensions, Death insurer, Equitable Life, Insurance, Just, Pensions
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Zurich’s Greco isn’t pleased with Apollo and others buying up pensions
I worked for Zurich one way or another much of my life; I know them to be a decent European general insurer who know quite a lot about investing in UK life and pension businesses. Allied Dunbar , Eagle Star, … Continue reading
Buy-backs, dividends or going private. “Just” for pensions.
Pension Oldie responds to Brookfield/ Just deal I think the private capital versus listed issue equity goes wider than Just insurance. Listed companies are increasingly releasing surplus cash by share buy-backs designed to bolster their share price and thereby reducing … Continue reading
Why is Brookfield’s purchase of Just getting so much attention?
I look at the stats on my blogs at the end of the working week. This week’s were strange; the two blogs on Brookfield taking over Just had twice the reads of any other. I thought it might be of … Continue reading
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Tagged BOE, Brookfield, ft, Just, Pensions, PIC, PRA, Rachel Reeves, Treasury
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“A colossal financial scandal” – Reeves welcomes Brookfield to our pensions.
I cannot say I am impressed by the Linked in post from Rachel Reeves, I do not see the Bermuda based arm of Brookfield as a good owner of Britain’s pensions. I side with the comments of Jnamdoc, the mysterious … Continue reading
Just Group privatised from over the water to provide “workplace pensions”
Brookfield Wealth Solutions (BWS) said this morning that it planned to merge Just Group with its own UK insurance company Blumont, and that the two would operate under Just Group’s brand. The Acquisition positions Just to maintain its offering in … Continue reading