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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....
...Gazprom affiliate Sogaz, an insurance company, while Gazprom Media said it had also acquired a stake....
...Last week’s State of Fintech report from CB Insights had some striking stats....
...The state remains on high alert to guard against it....
...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....
...The negotiations could lead to a meeting of Antony Blinken, secretary of state, and Jake Sullivan, national security adviser, with their Chinese counterparts — possibly in Alaska....
...The rebound in macro data, which has given hopes of a V-shaped recovery, could prove to be an illusion and the recovery will slow down.”...
...US targets Chinese journalists The Trump administration is capping the number of Chinese nationals allowed to work at five Chinese state media outlets in the US, citing Beijing’s harassment of foreign media...
...There should be a national minute’s applause for the oil analysts....
...whose operations are deemed to have a national security dimension....
...Combining these 5 top-down criteria with our bottom up analysis suggest that many of the strongest national champions are the place to be invested during this period of market turbulence....
...If you missed it, this long read by our media correspondent Anna Nicolaou charts the drama of The People v Harvey Weinstein trial....
...But some spending, such as lost box office revenues over the Chinese new year period — $3.9m this year compared with $1.5bn in 2019 — will never be recouped....
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
...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....
...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...
...At 6.3% below its cost of capital, this represents the worst level in more than 13 years....
...NHK, Japan’s national news service, said the missile fell into the waters off Hokkaido, at about 6am on Tuesday. The Pentagon also confirmed the launch....
...Brexit insurance US insurer Chubb has plumped for Paris as its new European head office after Brexit....
...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...
...The higher this risk, the more today’s equity market value can be explained by the value of the company’s debt....
...The company that handles all the US’s national security satellite launches has outlined audacious plans to end its reliance on Russian rocket engines within four years and slash the cost of launches by at...
...On the contrary, there is an incentive to migrate pre-Brexit to earn an active national insurance number....
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