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...Richard Dudley, chief executive of Aon’s wholesale and specialty insurance broking business, said: “We are very supportive of what [Mr Neal] is doing....
...It needs a wholesale rebalancing of the system. And if Ofwat will not do it, someone else should. jonathan.ford@ft.com...
...“Engagement in the wholesale debt market remains a priority for the FCA.”...
...One reason market participants at the forum put forward for the decline was the accessibility of staff at the UK Listing Authority, which comes under the aegis of the FCA....
...Price controls were gradually lifted, under the aegis of Ofgem, the regulator. By 2002, when the last controls were removed, Britain had perhaps the most liberal energy market in Europe....
...Under his aegis, the group has already rolled out new digital marketing campaigns, which insiders say have increased footfall in its stores....
...Aegis added 3.7 per cent to 139p amid hopes it would be well placed to win Unilever as a customer....
...Aegis Group rose 7.2 per cent to 126p after Goldman Sachs added the stock to its “conviction buy” list on valuation grounds....
...Such wholesale director moves are quite unusual....
...Surveys of practitioners show that retail businesses are far less happy about the FSA’s performance than big wholesale firms....
...But continued ownership by Celesio of the wholesale arm would surely be off-limits on competition grounds – Celesio, Alliance Boots and Phoenix, another German company, dominate the European market....
...Aegis rose 5.6 per cent to 132p ahead of this week’s deadline for interested parties to submit bids for the media buying company....
...The underlying philosophy seems to be that it does not want to be too heavy-handedly interventionist in a wholesale market composed of big boys....
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