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...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...A huge chunk of that — Rs205bn — came from the sale of a 3.5 per cent stake in state-run Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) in May through a long-delayed initial public offering....
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Meanwhile, Twitter is edging closer to accepting Elon Musk’s $43bn bid to buy the company....
...They are looking for a long-term, not temporary solution to their unsatisfactory life in China.”...
...So over the course of a decade, the state would be stealing 10 per cent of every big company in Britain. Those were things that were not palatable with the business community....
...The critics’ critics correctly countered that they beat life on the farms the workers had come from, and were very good at reducing poverty. And that was basically it....
...Consider not only the problems faced by apparel makers such as Nike, H&M and various luxury goods providers over Xinjiang cotton, but the news that Procter & Gamble worked with Chinese companies to test...
...(FT) Volunteering, such as at a vaccination centre, can make one happier, healthier and more satisfied with life. Purpose-seeking companies should take note, writes Pilita Clark....
...Japanese insurer Tokio Marine has said the insurance policies at the heart of the Greensill Capital collapse may not have been valid, as investors pressed the company to detail its exposure to the lender...
...Connect Bogotá was set up in 2011 and the government created iNNpulsa, a state innovation unit, in 2012. Half of the Colombian companies on the FT list were set up during this period....
...Our insurance team’s favorite life companies are Prudential and ASR We remain overweight of P&C Defensive: The sector should be agnostic to the cycle (having no correlation with HY spreads and PMIs) yet...
...The V-shaped recovery in consumer spending feels too bullish in our view....
...Institutions such as Daiichi Life, a Japanese insurance company, and individual investors have invested in the bonds....
...The Trump administration’s granting of state funding for (costly) COVID-19 testing for patients with no health insurance and Congress’s approval of a $8bn package to fight the spread of the virus bear out...
...Now the size of the state oil company’s listing has been scaled back, along with plans to list on international exchanges....
...Some space is devoted to Taikang Life Insurance, Sotheby’s largest shareholder with a 17.03 per cent ownership, based on the most recent publicly available record of Sotheby’s outstanding shares....
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...When West Virginia’s schoolteachers went on strike last year, the state’s history flared back to life....
...However, the England v France game was cancelled due to Typhoon Hagibis, the most powerful storm to hit the country in decades....
...(FT) OxyContin maker settles $270m suit Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, settled a $270m lawsuit with Oklahoma, the first of several actions brought by individual US states over the company...
...Here’s Jefferies: Given the current state of capital markets, in our view this is hardly the ideal time to begin an IPO process, especially for a company that provides 5% investment guarantees to customers...
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...In real life, a growing number of legal experts and computer scientists are developing tools they believe will give lawyers an edge in lawsuits and trials....
...the state....
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