Irish Life pays out €1.73bn of dividends since purchase for State
Payouts eclipse €1.3bn Canada’s Great West-Lifeco paid Government to buy Ireland’s largest life and pensions group in 2013
Canada Life
AIB Life joint venture appoints Bryan O’Connor as chief executive
Joint venture with Canada Life Irish Holding Company also names chartered accountant and former senior banker Tom Foley as chairman
Architect David Campion: ‘My biggest pet peeve? Clients who lack ambition’
Anchored in Barbados, the Dubliner has built an international architecture firm that straddles the Atlantic
AIB life and pensions venture with Canada Life secures regulatory nod
Partners expect to start trading later this year after final Central Bank regulatory approval is secured
S&P upgrades outlook for largest Irish banks’ credit ratings
Agency optimistic Irish lenders can manage fallout from pandemic and Ukraine war
Colin Hunt: Green transition ‘is the biggest opportunity in the history of global banking’
AIB is emerging from the pandemic in a strong position given its earnings potential and rising interest rates
AIB in talks to buy back some State shares after €645m profit
Bank to return €213m to shareholders through dividends and stock repurchases
Irish Life’s underlying profits rise to almost €200m
Canadian parent highlights ‘favourable morbidity experience’
Goodbody says PTSB’s Ulster Bank deal can pave way for return of dividends
Bank to buy €6.8bn of loans as UK-owned lender retreats from Irish market
Has AIB dropped clearest hint yet of its designs on Ulster’s tracker mortgages?
Market Beat: Bank makes all the right noises over excess cash
Banks braced for ‘broad-ranging review’
Cantillon: Sector mired in liquid ratios, low profits, and bonus and salary caps
Bonus bans and repossession regime leave Irish banks at disadvantage – BPFI
Lobby group report says Irish banking sector is at an ‘inflection point’
AIB reports €291m profit and raises medium-term target
Lender says it has secured quarter of mortgage market that has jumped 26% this year
Irish Life dividends to parent near €850m since purchase from State
Group’s new life assurance business sales rose to €650m from €565m in 2019
AIB chief ‘confident’ about profit rebound even as reopening slows
Colin Hunt says bank must remain ‘resilient and well-positioned’ to support economy
Ulster Bank chairman quits after two months ‘for personal reasons’
Chief executive says it has nothing to do with review being carried out by parent NatWest
Has NatWest finally run out of patience with Ulster Bank?
Behind the business-as-usual facade, things are not rosy between the bank and its parent
Fineos acquires Limelight Health and announces €55m equity raise
Irish insurtech company founded by Michael Kelly projects 40% rise in full-year revenues
Irish Life has paid €764m in dividends to Canadian parent since its sale by State
This equates to almost 60% of €1.3bn Great-West Lifeco paid State to acquire Irish Life in 2013
Irish Life names Canada Life Europe boss as new chief executive
Declan Bolger to take over Irish Life role as David Harney moves to European role
New retail units to let at Blackrock Village Centre after €10m upgrade
Eight remaining spaces on offer at revamped mall at rents of €50 to €70 per square foot
Irish Life workers to strike on Thursday over pensions
Unite members object to ‘unilateral decision’ to close the company’s defined benefit scheme
Irish Life profit up 18% to €201m as assets under management rise
Net earnings of €63 million for fourth quarter up from €61 million a year earlier
Canada Life claims former executive removed confidential data
Court grants insurance group injunction requiring executive preserve documents
Irish Life faces industrial action over pensions move
Firm is moving ahead with plans to close defined benefit schemes to future accruals
Irish Life makes €85m profit on Allianz Ireland stake sale
Insurer’s net profit rose to €138.9 million last year from €80.2 million in 2015
Dutch group Achmea to extract €220m from Friends First sale to Aviva
Aviva Ireland will have 15% shares of Irish life and general insurance markets following deal
Corlytics appoints Tom Kenny as finance chief
Former managing director of Canada Life International Assurance joins fintech firm
Michael Lynn’s pension to be paid into liquidation of property firm
Struck-off solicitor used €3m from Kendar Holdings to fund personal lifestyle, court told
Aviva in advanced talks to buy Friends First
Sale of Irish insurance group had attracted several suitors including ‘zombie’ specialists
Irish Life profits rise 17% amid investment management growth
Insurer contributes €42 million to Canadian parent’s earnings
David Harney on being a lifer at Irish Life
Chief executive joined the company straight from school and took over the top job in June of this year
Irish Life Investment Managers profit rises 51% to €22.1m
Company paid €8 million dividend to parent Canada Life Group UK in 2015
Profits at Irish Life Assurance doubled in 2015
Life and pensions group made an after-tax profit of €122m in 2015, up from €47m in the previous year
Reinsurer owned by Irish Life parent seeks acquisitions here
Dublin-based Canda Life International Re reports 47 per cent rise in after-tax profit
Three more UK property funds suspend trading post-Brexit
Funds close door on wave of investors seeking money back following UK referendum
Irish Life profits down 34% in the first quarter
Financial services firm offers lower profit contribution to parent Great-West Life Co
David Harney to replace Bill Kyle as CEO of Irish Life
Kyle to retire after three years with Irish arm and 37 years with Canadian parent
Irish Life seeks to rebrand health insurance subsidiary
Indications show Irish Life being promoted in the name tested well, chief Bill Kyle says
Shopping spraoi: Blackrock
With two shopping centres holding mega retailers, the main street has most of the little charmers
Blackrock’s Frascati House to let at €269 per sq m
Five-storey block available by way of sublease from Irish Life until October, 2021
People pay for absence of competition
Lack of competition in the financial services landscape means Irish consumers face higher prices and less choice
Irish Life receives ‘AA’ rating upgrade from Fitch
Move comes as ratings agency reaffirms Canadian parent Great-West Lifeco at ‘A+’
Irish Life aims to add 150 jobs in growth strategy
Insurance firm has been successfully integrated with Canada Life, says chief Bill Kyle
Irish Life to create 150 jobs next year as part of strategic growth plan
Accounts show life group paid Canadian parent dividend of €73m in 2014
Financial advisor jailed over Canada Life €215,000 fraud
Patrick Walsh created fictitious insurance policies for non-existent clients
Irish Life profits rose by 54% to €57 million in first quarter
Irish Life Investment Management played significant part in growth over three months
Waterford retail centre and car park offer investors blue-chip opportunities
Broad Street Centre shops and offices complex expected to sell for about €6.5m
Former Canada Life agent pleads guilty to theft of €270,000
Offences alleged to have happened when he worked for the company in 2010 and 2011
Canada Life acquires Legal & General
UK subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco to buy Dublin based offshore life company
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