June 1 (Bloomberg) — ING Groep NV , the biggest Dutch financial-services company, plans to cut about 300 jobs at its Japan life insurance unit as it stops selling variable annuities in the nation, said two people with knowledge of the matter.
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A House-Senate deal on rejiggering the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, the insurer of last resort for coastal homeowners, just won the House’s blessing. Gov. Rick Perry signaled last week that he would call them back before the start of hurricane season if a TWIA bill didn’t pass. The conference committee’s report passed, 147-0. Speaker Joe Straus called it an essential piece of legislation. He noted that hurricane season starts tomorrow (photo/NYT). It’s good for the inland folks
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Bernard Winograd is executive vice president of Prudential, which sells many of the financial pieces that Americans need for retirement. Even from the point of view of someone who sells insurance, mutual funds and annuities, though, the U.S. model of retirement savings is in need of repair.I’m in Washington for the next few days at a program on “Retirement Issues in the 21st Century,” sponsored by the National Press Foundation. Winograd was the first speaker, and he started us off with a call to
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Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Data Services and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series. • • • This drawing changed on 5/30/2009. Can you spot the difference? Leave a comment. • • • Updated 5/30 to 5/31/2009: More on Azure SAS 70 and ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certs, Steve Marx’s sample blob code • • Updated 5/27 to 5/29/2009: New Windows Azure SDK (May 2009 CTP) , SAS 70 Type I and II attestation for Microsoft cloud, Amazon and Google an
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