Example sentences of "life insurance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four of these companies are quoted separately from CB on the Paris Bourse ( CB received a London listing in 1973 ) : UCB ( 33 per cent owned by CB , in housing and property finance ) , UFB Locabail ( 66.2 per cent , business equipment finance ) , Cetelem ( 67.7 per cent , consumer finance ) , and Cardif ( 56 per cent , life insurance and savings products ) . |
| 2 | DAVID ANDERSON , chairman of Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's biggest life insurer , and Einion Holland , chairman of Pearl Group , the British life insurance company , are meeting over the next few days amid speculation that the Australian group is poised to mount a takeover bid for Pearl worth at least £1bn . |
| 3 | There has been intense interest in the British life insurance sector by Australian , New Zealand and Continental interests for some time . |
| 4 | At the time of the acquisition insurance analysts said that AMP had aspirations to expand , and since it controls one third of the Australian life insurance market its opportunities were limited in that country . |
| 5 | AMP would like 5 per cent of the life insurance market in Britain , which experts feel can only be achieved through acquisition . |
| 6 | The group has dominant market share down-under , taking about a third of Australia 's life insurance business , and needs to look beyond its local market for opportunities . |
| 7 | Yet AMP is prepared to embark on a £1bn adventure , representing over 6 per cent of its assets , which at best will only give it a share of the British life insurance market of between 2 and 2.5 per cent . |
| 8 | THE International Stock Exchange is mounting a preliminary investigation into the steep rise in the share price of Pearl Group , the British life insurer , last Friday ahead of the announcement yesterday of a £1.1bn takeover bid for the group by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurance group . |
| 9 | The Australian group said it believed that Pearl , ‘ if left to itself , will continue the long-term downward trend in its market position and is unlikely to meet the challenges presented by the developments in the UK and European life insurance markets . ’ |
| 10 | AMP has approximately 30 per cent of the life insurance and superannuation markets in Australia and is the largest manager of private retirement funds in that country and New Zealand . |
| 11 | AMP argues that its proposed acquisition of Pearl represents a significant step in its plans to become a major force in international life insurance markets . |
| 12 | In life insurance in particular , Japan 's domestic market is extremely mature . |
| 13 | In February 1989 , Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance , the second-largest life insurance company in Japan , bought 2 per cent of Compagnie Financiere de Suez of France . |
| 14 | In February 1989 , Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance , the second-largest life insurance company in Japan , bought 2 per cent of Compagnie Financiere de Suez of France . |
| 15 | Mr Gray , opening his case , explained how the the pamphlet was the culmination of a campaign against the peer by Mr Watts , who was pursuing an unpaid life insurance claim on the death of his brother-in-law in 1975 . |
| 16 | If Pearl yielded the 5.39 per cent average for the life insurance sector , its shares would trade at 408p . |
| 17 | After last week 's Revenue announcement that more than £1bn had beep taken by Personal Equity Plans , two new PEPs have been launched this week by stockbrokers Credit Suisse Buckmaster & Moore and life insurance giant Norwich Union . |
| 18 | The latest , and the largest of the takeovers came last week with the offer of £1.1bn by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurance company , for Pearl Group , a leading British life insurer . |
| 19 | As a home service company , or so called ‘ industrial ’ life insurer , it has specialised in arranging policies and collecting premiums on a door-to-door basis , with its sales force collecting small amounts of money on comparatively small life insurance policies . |
| 20 | But regulatory and structural upheavals in the City ahead of and after the ‘ big bang ’ in the British securities markets of 1986 have sparked a revolution within the life insurance industry that the Pearl has often found difficult to keep up with . |
| 21 | Other life insurers were forging closer links with building societies , who were choosing , under the new regulatory regime , to market the products of only one life insurance company , in accordance with new regulatory requirements . |
| 22 | Now building societies are the preferred choice of many customers for purchasing life insurance . |
| 23 | London & Manchester , the life insurance group , yesterday announced a 15 per cent increase in its interim dividend to 3.795p and warned that its profits would be hit by reduced turnover margins on its mortgage lending and estate agency business . |
| 24 | As Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson considerably modified the tax framework in which life assurance and pensions schemes operated , removing for instance the tax relief on life insurance premiums . |
| 25 | With losses amounting to £71m ( $137m ) in Italian life insurance , Guardian Royal Exchange , a British insurance company , is shedding two of three Italian subsidiaries it bought nearly two years ago . |
| 26 | Life insurance firms are an important species of ‘ safe ’ shareholder . |
| 27 | Would health insurance be income-related like National Insurance or would it be genuine private insurance like life insurance or house insurance ? |
| 28 | I 've been a life insurance salesman and I was in the deep freeze business for ages . |
| 29 | Either way , it 's bound to treble his life insurance payments . |
| 30 | The bank mainly sells its financial services products — including life insurance and pensions — to its 6.5m banking clients . |