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Fewer claims help insurance giant
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
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Pre-tax profit for the six months to the end of June came in at £1.32bn, compared with £949m a year ago. Lloyd's said the results also reflected its "prudent and conservative approach" and strong investment returns. More catastrophe claims tend to be...
Tags: Lloyd's of London, Lloyd’s, catastrophes claims, pretax profits, insurers market, relatively low, low level, billion pounds, tax profits, United Kingdom, London
Bord Gáis reports 10% fall in pretax profits
Dublin :: Ireland | 8 months ago
Credibility State energy company Bord Gáis has reported a 10 per cent fall in pretax profits to €151 million for 2008. The decline in pretax profits was down to a combination of spending on its expansion, sales costs, increased regulatory requirements and a “share-based...
Tags: Bord Gais, pretax profits
Man Group profits and funds slump
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility Profits should come in at $1.2bn (£823m; 884m euros) compared with $2.1bn a year earlier...Difficult year' Man has suffered as stock markets have fallen dramatically during the economic downturn and investors have taken money out of risky assets. "This...
Tags: hedge fund, Man Group Plc, fund managed, pretax profits, managed account, Peter Clarke, publicly trades, LSE, trades hedge, value trades
Insurance giant in profit slump
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility Lloyd's saw pre-tax profits slide 50.6% to £1.89bn ($2.7bn) for the year, from £3.84bn for 2007. The market has been hit by "significant claims from natural catastrophes, lower insurance rates and a reduction in investment income", said the firm. Lloyd's...
Tags: Lloyd's of London 2008, Lloyds, profits halved, billion pounds, investment returns, pretax profits, insurers market, financial market
UTV Media FY pretax profit falls
Belfast :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility Northern Irish broadcaster UTV Media Plc reported a fall in full-year pretax profit and the company cut its final dividend by 76 per cent. The company, which disposed of loss-making businesses and implemented a rolling cost-reduction programme, said it...
Tags: UTV Media Plc, UTV Media FY, pretax profits, Northern Irish
Foreign trainees at Japan firms growing rare
Tōkyō :: Japan | 10 months ago
Credibility The economic crisis is taking a toll on foreign trainees in Japan. Preliminary data compiled by the Japan International Training Cooperation Organization show that the number of companies' applications for permitting foreigners into Japan as trainees...
Tags: International Business News Japan, U.S. Marines, Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd., foreigners trainees, Bloomberg, Okinawa Gov Hirokazu Nakaima, Panasonic Corp., pretax profits
Virgin flies higher at BA's expense
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility A surge in business passengers helped Sir Richard Branson's airline Virgin Atlantic to increase profits in 2007/08, it was announced today. Profits have also soared in the first part of 2008/09, with Virgin partly attributing the increase to passengers...
Tags: Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., Virgin Atlantic Posts, Richard Branson, million pounds, tax profits, pretax profits
Japanese business IQ pretax profits plunge
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Japanese companies, hit by soaring raw material prices, saw their first quarter pretax earnings drop 17.5 percent from year-ago levels, the government reports...Corporate sales and capital spending also declined in the first quarter, the finance ministry...
Lloyd's Of London Pretax Profit Up 5%
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Thursday that its 2007 pretax profit rose 5% to 3.85 billion pounds ($7.62 billion). "Lloyd's benefited from a limited exposure to catastrophes but this has resulted in increased pressure on rates across all lines of business. The need to exercise
Tags: pretax profits, Lloyd's 2007 Pretax, Lloyd's of London
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