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...Over the past two decades, holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent, while holdings of fixed income have surged...
...I did a little “whoop” when I won £200 this month, but I’m sad about the prize fund rate dropping from 4.65 per cent to 4.40 per cent in March....
...“Previously, older borrowers may have used [mortgages] for home improvement, travel or to help a younger family member get on the property ladder,” said David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C, a mortgage...
...The “completely unique” edition will be on display from 4 April, valued at $1.5mn....
...“We had a lot of good news in recent months, helped by falls in inflation,” said David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...The fair’s arrival in Paris also builds on an alignment with the Art Basel fairs (whose owner, MCH Group, has a 4.75 per cent stake in Design Miami’s holding company Design Commerce Technologies)....
...Sales increased 12 per cent to €4.1bn last year while earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation, adjusted for one-offs, rose more than a fifth to €726mn....
...The fund’s other top holdings include Microsoft, L’Oréal, and luxury goods company LVMH....
...Revenue was up 7 per cent year on year to $4.6bn and operating margins ticked up slightly to 41.6 per cent....
.../LD from C-PD....
...The risk was not a precipitous crash but rather a slow-burn (S&L-style) squeeze on asset returns and bank profitability. That squeeze will continue....
...L’Oréal Hapta, price still to be set RM The pocket laptop This dinky 7in mini-laptop is fully modular, upgradable, repairable and ultimately recyclable....
...“What’s opened the door to these improvements is the better than expected inflation figures,” said David Hollingworth, director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...Three cornerstone investors — Bernard Arnault’s holding company Financiere Agache, the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund NBIM and Henry Ellenbogen’s Durable Capital Partners — committed to purchase up to $625mn...
...Instead of embarking on a flurry of spending, municipal governments appear to be holding on to their funds....
...He describes Publicis as “shifting from a holding company to a tech platform”, which will “radically change” how it operates its advertising business....
...The delivery of the MSC Euribia from the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard on France’s west coast in May led to a surge in the country’s exports....
...Drawing à l’infini presents nearly a thousand works — notebooks, drawings and engravings. The drawings illustrate Picasso’s constant process of reinvention and renewal....
...For a borrower with a £200,000 mortgage over 25 years on a standard variable rate of 7.99 per cent, their payments will rise by £67 a month — or £800 a year — according to broker L&C Mortgages....
...In spite of expectations that the Bank of England will raise its main interest rate this week, lenders’ appetite for business had sparked a renewed “price war” for new customers, L&C said....
...However, “If people do lock in a rate, it doesn’t mean they have to take it when the time comes,” says David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C Mortgages....
...It begins with a film studies professor (Samara Weaving) holding forth on the genre as outsider art, before abruptly discovering the downside of giving C minus marks for essays on Italian giallo chillers...
...But the C$247.2bn Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, a defined-benefit scheme for 336,000 schoolteachers in the country’s most populous province, gained 4 per cent and maintained fully funded status for a 10th...
...However, holding qualifying Aim stocks within your Isa for more than two years is a very popular — if volatile — IHT workaround....
...At Netwealth, for example, just 4 per cent of clients are in sustainable portfolios....
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