Insurance

Mike Piwowar, Republican chief economist for the Senate Banking Committee, is the fall 2012 speaker for the Robert Stafford Lecture Series on Banking in Iowa State University’s College of Business.

Piwowar will present on “Financial …

Bankers Financial Services LLC in West Des Moines, which specializes in providing market-linked certificate of deposit (CD) programs for banks, has acquired Powered CD Inc. of Lakewood, Colo., and its Index Powered CD program.

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As the East Coast begins picking up the pieces from Hurricane Sandy, insurance experts are making their best guesses as to what insured losses may total.

AIR Worldwide Corp., a catastrophe modeling firm, said late …

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines reported net income of $18.1 million for the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with a loss of $0.6 million for the same period last year.

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The heads of U.S. companies are finding fewer costs to cut, sending profit margins into the first 12-month contraction since 2009 and leaving investors increasingly dependent on economic growth to boost stocks, Bloomberg reported.

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Weston Smith, former chief financial officer at HealthSouth Corp., a Fortune 500 company, will present “Crossing the Line: An Insider’s Story of the HealthSouth Fraud” at 7 p.m. Thursday at Drake University’s Sheslow Auditorium. During …

A number of companies have delayed their earnings reports as Hurricane Sandy threatens the Northeast, MarketWatch reported. Among them are New York-based Pfizer Inc., which delayed its report to Thursday from Tuesday, New Orleans-based Entergy …

Over the next 18 months, between one-quarter and one-half of Americans who get insurance coverage through their employers will pay more of their doctor bills themselves as companies roll out health-care plans with higher deductibles, …