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Resolution still hungry for takeovers

12.11.09
Insurance takeover vehicle Resolution reckons it has digested Friends Provident and is ready for its next meal ... more

So who’s smiling with Cowdery?

12.08.09
The Friends Provident/Resolution merger is a great deal. For a very small number of people. Resolution founder Clive Cowdery in particular has done well ... ... more

Friends’ final Resolution rebuff

27.07.09
Life assurer Friends Provident today slammed the door on Resolution boss Clive Cowdery and said discussions about a possible tie-up were well and truly over... more

Big problem in making boards behave

20.07.09
Sir David Walker last week unveiled proposals to encourage shareholders to take more interest in their investments in the hope that their greater involvement would prevent a recurrence of the boardroom failures that contributed to the banking debacle ... more

Pledge to keep Friends divi in takeover plan

20.07.09
Friends shareholders were told today that Resolution’s takeover plan would pay them a minimum £1500 cash sweetener and preserve their dividend ... more

Sweetener and divi pledge in takeover tilt at Friends

20.07.09
Friends Provident shareholders told that Resolution’s takeover plan would pay them a minimum £1500 cash sweetener and preserve their dividend... more

Prospect of bidding war sparks surge

13.07.09
Friends Provident shares rallied 10% as hope sparked of a bidding war for the 177-year-old insurer ... more

Insurers’ policy change set to excite

09.07.09
In a week when the Government has proposed tougher capital requirements for banks, it is instructive to see the effect of a similar directive applied elsewhere ... more

Watchdog delay that’s unfair on Resolution

06.05.09
It is now two months since Resolution shook even the most jaundiced City investors with its announcement that the Financial Services Authority had decided to look again at the year-old deal that saw its previous business of closed life assurance funds being acquired (after a prolonged battle) by Hugh Osmond’s Pearl Group ... more

No love lost between PM and audit office

23.03.09
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New chairman seals shake-up at Swiss Re

09.03.09
The revolution in Swiss finance continued when Walter Kielholz was appointed chairman of insurance giant Swiss Re to replace Peter Forstmoser... more

Cowdery is facing probe over £5bn sale to Pearl

09.03.09
Clive Cowdery, the “zombie fund” insurance guru who made £150 million by selling Resolution Life to Pearl last year, is under investigation by the ­Financial Services Authority... more

FSA feels heat as another scandal hits City watchdog

06.03.09
Private Eye has memorably dubbed the City’s regulator the Fundamentally Supine Authority. That reflects the view of its critics that the Financial Services Authority is not up to the job... more

Troubled waters ahead for these offshore havens

09.12.08
A few years ago, to escape the tyranny of a different newspaper, I moved to the Cayman Islands - the hedge fund capital of the world... more

Resolution ready to stalk strugglers after raising £600m

05.12.08
Insurance: A vulture fund set up to prey on weak insurers and fund managers has revealed it has raised £600 million from investors keen to begin the hunt... more

As rates fall, it’s time to take on a little more risk

04.12.08
Some of the MPC's cut will be passed on in cheaper home loans, but more of it will be sliced off the rates for savers... more

Cowdery back to raise £1bn for a shake-up of the laggers

19.11.08
Insurance: Clive Cowdery, the vulture-fund investor who shook up the insurance industry, is back with a new venture... more

Cowdery a candidate to take control of bailed-out bank

09.10.08
The man who made investors £4.9 billion from zombie insurance funds could be the saviour of the banks' bailout.... more

Cowdery hires Tiner for £1bn float move

09.09.08
Finance: Clive Cowdery has announced he will float his financial services restructuring firm Resolution on the stock market this year, raising at least £1billion to fund new take­overs and deals... more

The FSA 'fesses up to a lack of common sense

27.03.08
The FSA has effectively signed its confession over Northern Rock... more

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