The less confident consumers feel, the more they pin their hopes on insurance and warranties. From such unhappy logic, TPG has plucked a financially fairly uplifting deal. The buyout firm has sold its car insurance business Warranty to U.S. insurer Assurant for $2.5 billion, roughly doubling its money over three and a half years. By paying mostly in shares, the buyer also gets some insurance of sorts. Assurant wants to tilt its portfolio further towards “lifestyle” offerings. In plain speak, that means it wants to get more of its earnings from insuring personal effects like phones and cars, rather than