Insurance

Esure eyes retail allocation for IPO

Car insurer may file for listing in weeks

• In depth IPOs
• UK investors back call for IPO reforms

Court refuses legal privilege to accountants

Principle of confidentiality will remain the preserve of solicitors and barristers

• Retailers call for action on tax avoidance
• Corporate tax take ‘has risen’

Aegon head warns over guaranteed returns

Concern over threat to life assurance industry

• Insurers struggle to reassure investors
• Guarantees at heart of Solvency II delays

Insurers struggle to reassure investors

Industry changes unlikely to be easy or bring quick results

• Aegon head warns over guaranteed returns
• Aon rethinks plan to defer bonus payout

Guarantees at heart of Solvency II delays

• Insurers shift from guarantee business
• Brussels considers tightening pension schemes oversight

Resolution names next chairman

Sir Malcolm Williamson will assume post after restructuring

• Resolution to pay £7.5m in shake-up
• Resolution to scrap its complex structure

Aon rethinking plan to defer bonus payout

Insurance broker considers following Goldman’s U-turn

• Aon to relocate headquarters to London
• Insurers’ contingent commissions attacked

NFU declares with-profits bonus

Risk bias boosts returns

• Facing the financial facts of life
• Britons at most risk of identity fraud