life-assurance

After selling it with her third husband, life-assurance tycoon Sir Mark Weinberg, in 2007 to GuestInvest for reportedly more than £34 million, it was bought at a discount by London-based businessmen Meir Abutbul and Navid Mirtorabi last October for £20 million.

Taking a Walk on the Wild Side Jemima Sissons 2011

Phoenix's embedded value also shrinks each year as life-assurance policies expire.

Phoenix Could Struggle to Soar Hester Plumridge 2011

After selling it with her third husband, life-assurance tycoon Sir Mark Weinberg, in 2007 to GuestInvest for reportedly more than £34 million, it was bought at a discount by London-based businessmen Meir Abutbul and Navid Mirtorabi last October for £20 million.

Taking a Walk on the Wild Side Jemima Sissons 2011

Last year, the U.K.'s largest manager of closed life-assurance funds emerged from a debt restructuring and recapitalization to list as a FTSE 250 company.

Phoenix Could Struggle to Soar Hester Plumridge 2011

Ltd. said that it is in talks over the potential acquisition of the majority of AXA's U.K. life-assurance business.

London Rises 0.7%; Tokyo Adds 1.8% 2010

Ltd. said that it is in talks over the potential acquisition of the majority of Axa's U.K. life-assurance business.

Euro-zone Output Boosts Stocks; BP Slides 2010

Cowdery's first Resolution vehicle bought closed life-assurance books for a fraction of their net asset value during the last downturn and then sold them at the top of the market in 2007.

Friends Provident's Pac-Man Defense 2009

"These results demonstrate the fundamental attractiveness of Asia as the fastest-growing region of the world's life-assurance markets and Prudential's proven ability to capture a material and growing share of the market," Chief Executive Mark Tucker said in a statement.

U.K.'s Prudential posts sales gain 2008

He made his name, and fortune, buying closed life-assurance books for a fraction of their net asset value during the last downturn and then selling them at a small premium at the top of the market in 2007.

Persuasive Mr. Cowdery Does It Again 2008

Ask secretaries of life-assurance companies if that is true, Miss Halcombe.

The Woman in White 2003