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World Insurance Report

Economic turmoil to hold back life insurance growth in 2008

Prospects for life business in the medium term, after 2008, are better; non-life premiums in industrialised countries will fall

Premiums collected by the world’s insurers rose by 3.3% in real terms last year to $4,061bn, according to the latest sigma published by Swiss Re.

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