Article: Life assurers face mixed fortunes.

Article: Life assurers face a test of strength.
Investors Chronicle - magazine and web content;  December 17, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... put the spotlight on life assurers UK life assurance companies ... The situations that life assurers are being asked to envisage include a 40 per cent drop in equity prices ... considering moves to make the life assurers strengthen their reserves ...

Article: Cancellations hit life assurers' growth.
Investors Chronicle;  July 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... fallen back by 7 per cent. The big life assurers are down even more - Aviva has fallen by 18 per cent, Prudential by 23 per ... General by 17 per cent. While some of this ... also to blame. Some life assurers are taking steps to ...

Article: Life assurers need to reconnect.
Investors Chronicle - magazine and web content;  June 2, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... current situation for life assurers is not encouraging ... that the top 1 per cent of the richest people ... worryingly, the top 50 per cent own a staggering 99 per cent. So half the population ... case for arguing that life assurers have been their own ...

Article: Life assurers raise the red flag of insolvency
The Scotsman;  June 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... another blow to life assurers' reserves yesterday ... 100 - in which life assurers are heavily invested ... 6 or 1.05 per cent, from Tuesday ... of the strongest life assurers in the UK - with ... from 14.3 per cent to just 5 per cent ...

Article: FTSE 350 REVIEW: Life assurers.
Investors Chronicle;  January 16, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Last year's 16 per cent rise in the FTSE All-Share ... products. Indeed, when the life assurers reported third-quarter results ... improve. The challenge for the life assurers is to take advantage of those ... middle of this year, the life assurers will have a much wider range ...

Article: Life assurers facing scrutiny.
Investors Chronicle - magazine and web content;  July 30, 2008 ;     656 words ... ... And with the listed life assurers reporting their first ... Services, just 46 per cent of policies are still ... Aviva reported a 12 per cent rise in operating profits ... its investment book. Life assurers such as Aviva with operations ...

Article: Mixed fortunes for life assurers.
Investors Chronicle - magazine and web content;  March 25, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... business sales retreated by 11 per cent. What's more, custom was ... without success to sell a 52 per cent stake in F&C Asset Management ... The one common factor with life assurers is that they retain an excess ... were to fall a further 30 per cent or so. On this basis, Aviva ...