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What M&A trends will transform the 2024 insurance landscape?
It is widely accepted that 2023 was one of the worst years in recent memory for M&A activity.
The concept of environmental, social and governance issues is gaining importance, especially in deals. The buzzword of late, ESG's growing trend is largely due to heightened regulatory focus on disclosure and enforcement by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In the growing regulatory framework, acquirers, targets and investors should properly account for ESG in mergers and acquisitions. A company's ESG profile is typically represented by a score that is calculated from data surrounding specific metrics related to intangible assets.
ESG can be considered a corporate social credit score that is gaining more and more attention by investors — individual and institutional.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC recently conducted a survey that found over 90% of millennial investors were interested in sustainable investing. As millennials begin to comprise a larger segment of the total pool of investors, we can expect the importance of ESG investing to grow in tandem.
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It is widely accepted that 2023 was one of the worst years in recent memory for M&A activity.
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The ongoing conflicts and further geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, coupled with upcoming elections in a number of key countries including the US and the UK, make 2024 challenging to predict what impact this will have on the insurance sector.
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On 6 September 2022, the European Commission (EC) prohibited Illumina’s acquisition of Grail, bringing to an end the administrative stage of a legal saga that has attracted interest beyond competition law specialists.
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