Bloomberg Ferdinand Piech vanished from the corporate scene for almost two years after abruptly departing Volkswagen AG, the carmaker his grandfather built. Now he’s looking to settle old scores. Piech, Volkswagen’s former chief executive officer, chairman and one of its biggest shareholders, has rekindled accusations that top managers knew about falsified emissions tests months before publicly admitting to it. ...

  Bloomberg Zurich Insurance Group AG fell in Zurich trading after posting a quarterly profit supported by one-time gains as Chief Executive Officer Mario Greco presses ahead with an overhaul of Switzerland’s largest insurer. Net income for the three months through December amounted to $685 million compared with a loss of $424 million a year earlier due to restructuring costs ...

Of the many puzzles posed by Donald Trump’s administration, the role of the National Security Council (NSC) is among the trickiest. The NSC usually tries to act as an “honest broker” among Cabinet agencies. But how will it function under a headstrong president who sees his role as disruptor and tweeter-in-chief? This challenge falls to national security adviser Michael Flynn, ...