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		<title><![CDATA[As Insurers 'Emerge from the Storm,' Pricewaterhouse Predicts Rocky Road]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/10005406/as-insurers-emerge-from-the-storm-pricewaterhouse-predicts-rocky-road/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Insurers weathered the financial meltdown of 2008 and the recession of 2009, but over the next five years they face more stringent regulation, higher taxes, and survival of the fittest, says an industry consultant.    Yesterday the accounting and consulting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers issued "Emerging from the Storm:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:06:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[We're Not AIG! Insurers Bristle at Being Charged for 'Systemic Risk']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/10005398/were-not-aig-insurers-bristle-at-being-charged-for-systemic-risk/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Insurers rarely unite on anything, but they definitely see eye-to-eye on a proposed plan by Congress to set up a fund that would provide $100 billion in backup in case of another debacle like American International Group.    AIG's collapse nearly brought down the financial system due to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:07:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mexico hedges against falling oil prices]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Mexico has taken out a $1bn insurance policy against oil prices falling next year, a clear signal that commodities producers remain wary about the threat of a double-dip recession.The world's sixth largest oil producer said on Tuesday that it had hedged all its net oil exports for 2010, by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:17:28 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Outlook for Life Insurers Better Than Property Insurers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As 2010 draws near it seems that anyone placing bets on the insurance industry would be better off putting money on the life insurers rather than the property casualty industry.    Yesterday MetLife, the nation's largest life insurer - although it does sell property casualty on the side...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:49:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIG Puts the Squeeze on Pay Czar Feinberg]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's probably no accident that American International Group is leaking news to The Wall Street Journal about the internal dissent at this once giant insurance company. In fact, it's starting to sound like a soap opera.    First, CEO Robert Benmosche was reportedly ready to quit. Then, after...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:22:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[7 Best Annuities to Guarantee Income for Life]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/retirement-planning/article/7-best-annuities-to-guarantee-income-for-life/371076/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Receiving a monthly check from the day you retire until the day you die sounds mighty appealing. But signing up for an immediate annuity also means locking up your money with an insurer for decades. How can you be certain the company will still be around? Here are seven of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Willis Group CEO Joe Plumeri to Run a Kinder, Gentler Company]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of the worst recession many of us have ever seen, CEO's have become hard.Â TheyÂ eke out profits by firing as many people as possible and forcing those who remain to work twice as much.    So when Joseph Plumeri (who unlike the rest of his family...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:48:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insurers Could Become Fire Fighters de Facto, and Face 'Alarming' Bills]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As ominous as a fire bell in the night is the news that Passaic, New Jersey Mayor Alex Blanco is considering billing insurance companies for fire department services. The state of New Jersey, as well as most of its municipalities, is facing a serious shortfall in revenue. By the latest...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:51:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Do-Nothing Office of Federal Insurance]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wonderful thing about our government is its ability to create jobs. Not in the hinterlands, where people are faced with gut-wrenching 10 percent unemployment, but in our nation's capital, where no bureaucrat will ever go hungry.    It has been decreed unanimouslyÂ by the House Financial Services Committee...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:33:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[COBRA Subsidies Should Be Extended]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress should extend the COBRA subsidy law to help millions of unemployed people who would otherwise lose their health insurance. by Ken Terry]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:08:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Prudential May Be on the Hunt for Acquisitions, Says Wells Fargo Analyst]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent report by Wells Fargo analyst John Hall makes you wonder if he knows something you don't - and how he found out.    According to an article in the Star-Ledger, a newspaper in Newark, New Jersey-based Prudential Financial's home town,Â  Hall upgraded the stock based on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:44:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Michigan Is Mad, And Taking It Out on the Insurance Industry]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arguably no state has been hurt worse by the recession than Michigan, once the car capital of the country and now saddled with more than 15 percent unemployment, up 6 percent from a year ago.    Politicians there are mad as hatters and taking it out on a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:03:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Manulife Sale of Cdn$2.5 Billion is Completed, But Disappointing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/10005249/manulife-sale-of-23-billion-is-completed-but-disappointing/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Canadian insurer Manulife Financial raised eyebrows in November when it surprised the stock market with a Cdn$2.5 billion common share offering. Now that the stock has been sold, the results are disappointing to say the least.    For starters, it doesn't look as if its "overallotment option," known...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:53:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIG: The Real News Isn't Good]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[American International Group shares have climbed back above $30 a share on news that the ailing insurer is cutting its debt to the Federal Reserve by $25 billion by - essentially - giving the Fed two crown jewels it plans to sell off.    AIG has been drowning...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:03:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jobless Face Huge Hike in Health Premiums; Seven Steps to Dodge the Threat]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/devil-details/jobless-face-huge-hike-in-health-premiums-seven-steps-to-dodge-the-threat/1109/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Millions of jobless Americans face a huge hike in health insurance premiums because of the expiration of a COBRA subsidy that was created last February. The subsidy could be extended, but experts say you should consider a contingency plan, if you want to keep your health insurance affordable. by Kathy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:23:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CBO Weighs In On Premium Impact of Senate Reform Bill]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/10001450/cbo-weighs-in-on-premium-impact-of-senate-reform-bill/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The CBO projects that most people will not see their insurance premiums rise as a result of reform. Robert Laszewski is not so sure. by Ken Terry]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:27:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is a Piece of AIG on Hank Greenberg's Shopping List?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of water has flowed under the bridge between former American International Group CEO Hank Greenberg and the company he once ruled. But it could be time to float the idea that Greenberg might want to buy a piece of the ailing insurer.    Looking back a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:28:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIG Shares Fall After Analyst Questions Reserves]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Shares of AIG fell 12 percent on Monday after an analyst raised concerns about a possible deficiency in the company's non-life insurance reserves.According to CNBC, Bernstein Research estimated AIG's property-casualty operations could face an $11 billion reserve deficiency in the next year.Bernstein cut its target price...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:45:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reason Number 1,423 Why the Essential Air Service Program is a Huge Waste of Taxypayer Funds]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop quiz.  What costs $123 million per year and offers marginal value to the taxpayers who pay for it?  No, it's not a CAT Scan for someone without health insurance; it's the government's Essential Air Service EAS program. by Brett Snyder]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:21:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dubai Unwinding May Just Be A Bid By Emirate Banks To Exert More Control]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has long been known that banks use derivatives both as insurance products to protect themselves against calamitous events and as speculative products to engineer outsize returns. In the case of banks in Abu Dhabi last week, they appear to have been using credit default swaps and other complex financial...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:16:49 -0800</pubDate>
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