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...James and Kathryn Murdoch’s non-profit foundation is part of a consortium of investors that has committed $250m to a climate finance fund being raised by BlackRock to target emerging markets....
...As recently as July, the group’s co-founder began an open-ended “semi-sabbatical” from Apollo’s insurance business — a move he has since said was “a very bad idea” in the middle of a pandemic....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 14 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc....
...A UK court heard on Wednesday that relatives of Sir Frederick recorded 1,000 of his private conversations in the Ritz, and also enlisted the help of a former London police chief’s security company....
...They include Adobe, Carlsberg Group, Coca-Cola European Partners, Colgate-Palmolive, EDF, Electrolux, H&M, Mars, Nestlé, Orange, Salesforce, Telefónica, The Co-op and Vodafone....
...Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Gates Foundation, echoes that theme in her own policy paper, published in Foreign Affairs magazine, which appeals for greater focus on female inclusion and empowerment during...
...A version of this article was first published on May 20 by the Nikkei Asian Review. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Few have benefited more than Ping An Technology, a subsidiary of the giant Ping An Insurance whose 2018 revenues totalled more than Rmb1tn....
...to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation....
...Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan are joining forces, announcing plans on Tuesday to create a healthcare company with the aim of cutting healthcare costs and improving services for their US employees...
...CDL v Millennium hotels: Singapore stand-off A simple question sits at the heart of a battle between one of Singapore’s richest men Kwek Leng Beng and a group of investors in UK-listed Millennium & Copthorne...
...Richard Rocket, his real name, a co-founder of research company NewSpace Global, says the main thing holding back the industry is access, rather than price....
...Unlike Wikipedia, which is run as a charitable foundation, WikiTribune is a normal UK limited company, which will eventually try to turn a profit. Wales accepts this is a tough proposition....
...Authorities say it is impossible to achieve 100 per cent co-operation in a project of this magnitude, where thousands of farmers are affected....
...He rejoined the company at the end of 2007 after serving for two years as president and CEO of Harvard Management Company, the entity that manages Harvard’s endowment....
...The project was funded by donations from Chubb employees, the company, its charitable foundation and partner law firms....
...Dan Ivascyn, who took Mr Gross’s job as chief investment officer, said he had “a well-deserved stellar reputation as an investor and a philanthropist”, while the company said he and his co-founders were...
...to this article Charter for companies to impose their preferences / From Helen Sutch...
...(Christopher H Achen and Larry M Bartels, NYT) Political sideshow Country club climate change Trump has called global warming a hoax, but he warns of its dire consequences in his company’s application...
...Following what Zhovtis calls a “selective prosecution” for abuse of his government office, Ablyazov was jailed in 2002....
...Univision last year bought The Root, an African-American focused news and culture website, and it is a co-owner with Walt Disney of Fusion, an English-language news and lifestyle TV network and website....
...Silicon Valley may have an image as a haven of libertarianism but some are surprisingly keen on the idea of greater social insurance — such as a “citizen’s” or “basic” income — to be funded by a digital...
...But convulsions in credit markets since the beginning of the year have prompted the CEO to go on a world tour of pension funds, endowments and insurance companies to broaden his support network....
...Lobbying from the likes of Microsoft helped to force the removal of export restrictions on encrypted software. In 1996, a landmark ruling in the case of Bernstein v....
...Professor Johanna Seibt of Aarhus University in Denmark, co-founder of the foundation, says social robots are more than tools — “they change how we are as human beings”, while Noel Sharkey, robotics professor...
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