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...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
...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....
...It’s in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, outside the headquarters of an insurance company located alongside an interstate highway. This is a pittance, globally speaking....
...The responses point to higher fuel and utility bills, rising National Insurance and business taxes, supply chain disruption and the combination of higher wages and labour shortages....
...They are looking for a long-term, not temporary solution to their unsatisfactory life in China.”...
...Well, big companies want cheap corn. So they lobby the government, which provides subsidies to farmers, in part via preferential crop insurance....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...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....
...While theatre owners and companies welcomed the extra money ploughed into the sector, the Budget announcement did not address the lack of Covid-related insurance for big productions....
...(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....
...In exchange, Silverstein received guarantees that he could build elsewhere on the site and tax-free Liberty bonds to help finance it....
...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...
...Still, he is not angry about how Covid-19 has affected his life....
...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...
...Meanwhile, protesters say stay-at-home orders threaten civil liberties....
...Institutions such as Daiichi Life, a Japanese insurance company, and individual investors have invested in the bonds....
...Apart from most people wearing masks on public transport, life goes on as usual....
...Rotork has the single largest exposure in our coverage (~50% v 60% in 2014 though)....
...The country has no unemployment insurance, very limited unemployment benefits or in-work benefits for low wage earners, little state support for pensions....
...is critical to their rights to life, liberty and property....
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...Beijing has clamped down on companies and organisations it accuses of showing sympathy to the protest movement, including Cathay Pacific and America’s National Basketball Association....
...Having ruled out increases in income tax, national insurance and VAT rates in its 2019 manifesto, the government will likely initially look to other options....
...recalls a real estate executive who met Mr Wu, then chairman of China’s Anbang Insurance....
...Numerous insurers have sworn off the coal industry altogether and 13 companies (including Liberty Mutual, AXA and Allianz) have confirmed they are not underwriting the project, which would open up one of...
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