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...As we’ve covered previously, the US’s auto insurance rates have soared 24 per cent over the past two years (v BLS data)....
...He also extended a $30mn loan to a company registered in the name of Epstein’s private pilot. The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet....
...Decades of complex financial investments, opaque corporate ownership stakes and anonymous property purchases have made it difficult to disentangle Russian investments abroad....
...In the news Apollo to merge with Athene Apollo Global Management is to merge with Athene Holding, the life insurance company it created at the height of the financial crisis, transforming the alternative...
...Institutions such as Daiichi Life, a Japanese insurance company, and individual investors have invested in the bonds....
...But such a land and property above land tax is collected by a stroke of the pen at the Land Registry. (ii) such a property wealth tax would lead to inefficiency in investment behaviour....
...The main criticism is that it's corrosive, and that especially on banks and insurance, and that it fuels bubbles in property, for example. What do you say to the critics?...
...Companies have offloaded all the risk on to employees.”...
...A shift to defined contribution plans will put a serious dent in private equity funds, hedge funds and property companies....
...This should be helpful for attracting investment.”...
...At the same time, HBC took a $500m investment from Rhone Capital for a fifth of the company....
...Others are more frivolous: Yasuda Kasai, the Japanese insurance company, paying $40m for Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in 1987; and Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian’s 2015 purchase of a Modigliani painting for $170m...
...Ms O’Riordan, currently an SEC associate regional director in Los Angeles, joins Anthony Kelly as co-chief of the unit, which focuses on misconduct by investment companies, advisers and private funds....
...Bad investments retard productivity while the perception of unfairness corrodes the social order....
...In the worst of three scenarios it suggested that 21 of the 83 insurance companies it surveyed, with a market share of 35 per cent, would not meet minimum capital requirements by 2025....
...I am also introducing a brand new 10% rate on long term external investment in unlisted companies, up to a separate maximum of £10 million of lifetime gains....
...This will remove over £1bn from the cost of providing motor insurance. We expect the industry to pass on this saving, so motorists see an average saving of £40-50 per year off their insurance bills....
...Mr Hughes was previously group chief investment officer for HSBC Insurance where he was responsible for assets totalling more than $95bn....
...The National Institute for Economic and Social Research predicts that the British economy will grow by 3 per cent this year and business investment by 13 per cent as companies become more confident about...
...The buyback plan is Northfield, Illinois-based Kraft Foods’ first since it became an independent company in October 2012. ” (Bloomberg) “AT&T, the biggest U.S. phone company, said on Tuesday that it would...
...International accounting rules no longer allow companies to do that....
...LLC....
...It helps if there is a large population centre nearby – East Chicago virtually merges with Gary at the Illinois state border line....
...With other private equity funds Mr Ross’s WL Ross fund bought Florida’s Bank United after it was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....
...This is the country’s most popular tourist attraction and is South African owned once again; Growthpoint, South Africa’s largest property company, and the PIC each bought a 50 per cent share in the V&A for...
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