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...Read up on those transactions in the piece, as well as one relatively opaque deal that hasn’t gotten any media attention at all: an $82bn dividend Berkshire’s biggest insurance unit paid the parent company...
...That doughty — somewhat dull — Canadian insurance company known as Manulife does not often attract attention. This week, however, it caused a frisson in the real estate world....
...It is the UK company’s largest single shareholder....
...Royal Insurance merged with Sun Alliance in 1996. Turning to the 2023 list, HSBC bought the Midland Bank in 1992....
...Ulbrich is a controversial figure, who has claimed that the American billionaire Bill Gates wanted to use vaccination to reduce the population of Germany to 27mn people — a claim that a spokesman for his...
...“Not a single one of the clients who are in these funds would pay these rates for any other type of insurance, certainly not term [life] insurance,” she points out....
...The nearest hotel is a Radisson Blu (radissonhotels.com), but the UK’s Tate and the Aspen Art Museum have booked groups of their patrons into Boen Gård, a historic farm-turned-hotel half an hour’s drive...
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...AI is giving underwriters godlike powers, according to the president of Sompo Holdings, one of Japan’s biggest insurance companies....
...“Although you can control a museum during your lifetime, it becomes very difficult after you’ve gone, and then there are the considerations of insurance, access and conservation.”...
...JAB has acquired stakes in two companies from Fairfax, taking over its interests in Crum & Forster Pet Insurance Group and Pethealth in a deal announced on Monday....
...Bitfury, at the Aspen Ideas Festival last month....
...Are American business leaders ready to defend democracy? If you look at recent opinion polls, the answer might seem to be a resounding — and reassuring — “yes”....
...The company, which was set up by Lewis Ranieri of Liar’s Poker fame, presents itself in altruistic terms as a new path for less wealthy Americans to become homeowners....
...So they have all of this cash from these companies. They got this influx of money. Those companies are highly interest-rate sensitive....
...Travel spending by big US companies was “well over 50 per cent” of pre-pandemic levels in March, the chief financial officer of American Express told the FT last week....
...In a sharp departure from generations of conservatives, it is also suspicious of big companies....
...Companies including Uber and Lyft are fighting to classify their workers as independent contractors, making them ineligible for employee benefits such as traditional unemployment insurance and paid sick...
...Sales, which were already doing “very well” in China, the US and pockets such as Dubai, are also now picking up in Europe, where American tourists began flocking again to Chanel boutiques over the summer...
...for American regulators....
...The national insurance rise had already gone through. It had been passed as a health and social care levy, which people broadly bought into at the time....
...American Airlines....
...In June, South African energy company Anglo American mimicked Rusal’s spin-off with a float of its coal business Thungela Resources....
...OJ Simpson, for which he was nominated for an Emmy in 2016....
...Three North American companies are setting up a rare earths supply chain to reduce dependence on China for the vital metals used in weapons, electric vehicles and other advanced technology....
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