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By Sarah Mortimer LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - UK pension funds are dipping a toe into the specialist market for high yielding but risky bank loans in an effort to offset poor returns in their traditional investment portfolios. After years of slow...

May 14 (Reuters) - Securities analysts revised their ratings and price targets on several European companies, including Axa, Diploma and SIG, on Tuesday. HIGHLIGHTS * Insurance: Socgen starts Axa with buy * Construction: Jefferies raises target price...

By Tom Bill LONDON, May 10 (Reuters) - German fund Degi has put a Parisian office block on sale for 95 million euros ($124 million), just over half what it paid in 2008, as France's economic woes erode its status as a top European target for property...

* Munich Re Q1 net profit 972 mln euros vs forecast 931 mln * Hannover Re net profit 221 mln euros vs forecast 211 mln * Lower damage claims offset pressure on investment income * Allianz net, operating profit up strongly * Munich shares flat, Allianz...

Protective Life Corp. agreed to buy a portfolio of old policies from French insurer AXA SA's U.S. business for $1.1 billion, with the aim of squeezing more value out of them. Birmingham, Alabama-based Protective Life said the deal with Axa's Mony Life...

A U.S. District Court judge ruled this week that an accounting firm can halt what so far have been unsuccessful efforts to contact 16 descendants of Armenian Genocide victims who are due payouts from an insurance fund. Judge Christina Snyder said the...

More than $1.6 million has been paid out from a compensation fund for descents of Armenian Genocide victims, according to a status report filed in a lengthy lawsuit in U.S. District Court. However, four of the 32 claimants who haven’t been paid...

After months of legal wrangling, a multimillion-dollar legal dispute involving a compensation fund for descendants of Armenian Genocide victims has hit another snag: more than 1,700 of the 13,500 claims cannot be found. In U.S. District Court on Monday,...

An accounting firm will review 178 insurance claims as part of a deal struck in a case involving a multimillion-dollar compensation fund for descendants of Armenian Genocide victims, attorneys announced Monday. Lawyers Mark Geragos and Roman Silberfeld,...

A U.S. District judge on Monday gave attorneys feuding over a multimillion-dollar compensation fund for descendants of Armenian Genocide victims until Aug. 8 to agree on how to proceed. A motion filed by Glendale-based attorney Vartkes Yeghiayan contends...

A U.S. district judge on Monday denied a motion to conduct an audit of a multimillion-dollar compensation fund for descendents of Armenian Genocide victims, instead ordering the account administrator to explain payout discrepancies. Glendale-based...

A federal judge on Monday gave attorneys fighting over accounting discrepancies at a multimillion-dollar compensation fund for the descendants of Armenian Genocide victims two weeks to hash out an agreement or face an extensive court-ordered audit. U.S....