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Pioneer Life shifts focus to variables

By Ted P. Torres | October 23, 2012 - 12:00am

Pioneer Life Inc. will be placing greater emphasis on investment-unit linked insurance products next year, as the public’s appetite for investments increases while the low interest rate environment continues...

Banking

Time spent with your children is time wisely invested.

June 21, 2010 - 12:00am

Word of the day

AFPSLAI has not invested in any Legacy company

April 4, 2009 - 12:00am

We wish to seek your assistance in publishing our clarification regarding the points raised by your columnist Mr. Cito Beltran in his column Ctalk, re “The scammed forces of the Philippines” (Page 16,...

Letters to the Editor

GLOBAL NEWS: Alleged Madoff fraud has worldwide exposure

December 16, 2008 - 3:20am

NEW YORK (AP) – The list of investors who say they were duped in one of Wall Street's biggest Ponzi schemes is growing, snaring some of the world's biggest banking institutions and hedge funds, the super rich...

Insurers’ investments hit P3.7-B

By Ted P. Torres | June 3, 2003 - 12:00am

The investment climate for financial institutions has been sluggish if not downright pathetic, that the country’s insurance industry, often times outdoing other institutions, has had to content with a mere P1.9...

Banking

Insurance firms invest P7.46-B in government securities

By Ted P. Torres | October 16, 2002 - 12:00am

The country’s insurance industry invested P7.466 billon in government-issued investment for the first nine months this year, with dollar-denominated instruments accounting for a third of the total. "There...

Business