April 13 (Reuters) - Britain's Legal & General Group PLC and Swiss Re AG are among firms said to be weighing bids for Deutsche Bank AG's Abbey Life Assurance Co, sources familiar with the matter said. In September, Reuters reported that the German lender was weighing the possible sale of i
Read more(ShareCast News) - Recent underperformance led analysts at Credit Suisse to remove Aviva from their Europe Focus List, but they expected the stock's price to close the gap versus its peers over the next few years. The decision to remove the stock from that list was triggered by the shares' breach of
Read more(Updates with share price performance, other CEO pay) LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) - British insurer Aviva chief executive Mark Wilson's take-home pay more than doubled to 5.67 million pounds ($8.1 million) last year, after the purchase of rival Friends Life, Aviva's annual report showed on
Read more(ShareCast News) - Worries surrounding Legal&General's capital position and future dividends appeared to be unjustified, The Times's Tempus said. The insurer's full-year capital surplus, on the basis of the European Solvency II requirements, printed at £5.5bn or about 169% of what it required to sup
Read more* Solvency ratio 169 pct, below some expectations * Operating profit up 14 pct to 1.46 bln pounds * Closed books present buying opportunity, CFO says * Shares down more than 5 pct (Adds CFO comments on closed books, updates shares) By Carolyn Cohn LONDON, March 15
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