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...“Not a single one of the clients who are in these funds would pay these rates for any other type of insurance, certainly not term [life] insurance,” she points out....
...Commercial and strategic advice WINNER: Canadian Pacific Originality: 8; Leadership: 8; Impact: 7; Total: 23 The railway company’s legal team helped in its bid for Kansas City Southern....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 19. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Which fintech tie-ups do you see happening by the end of the year? Reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to let us know. Happy reading!...
...Abel shepherds the company’s non-insurance investments, including the Burlington Northern Railroad, manufacturing businesses, and utilities he once ran as chief executive....
...If Warren Buffett’s conglomerate provided refuge in 2008 to companies whose crisis-inflicted injuries did not condemn them to bailout or failure, in 2020 that role fell to Apollo, the investment group that...
...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...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on April 20, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...In a speech last month Thomas Hoenig, vice-chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, said that universal banks should set up standalone holding companies if they wanted to carry out “non-traditional...
...While it’s true rental companies can bring some economies of scale to the market — taking advantage of location, maintenance, insurance, cleaning and vehicle financing synergies — what they gain in those...
...The company also recorded $4.9bn of writedowns, after tax, on its US shale investments, part of an oil business it started developing before crude prices began to plummet in 2014....
...V&A’s robot-made web London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, has launched a season of exhibitions and events focused on the “unsung role” of engineering in society....
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...Nomura has capped a record year for overseas acquisitions by Japanese companies with a $1bn purchase of a stake in American Century Investments from Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce....
...(WSJ$) Health group hackedAnthem, the second-biggest US health insurance company, revealed it was the victim of what is thought to be the biggest cyber attack to hit a US financial institution....
...The acquisition comes just weeks after Great-West merged its US pension administration business with that of its sister company, Putnam Investments, and put Mr Reynolds in charge of the combined group....
...of extended warranties, credit life insurance and dealer-installed accessories into contracts.”...
...Investment strategy: A value investor and a disciple of Ben Graham, Mr Watsa invests via his insurance company Fairfax Financial Holdings....
...– notably Samsung Life Insurance, which owns 7.5 per cent of the company....
...The number of Americans who claimed unemployment insurance for the first time leapt 78,000 last week to 439,000....
...Mr Hoenig, the former president of the Kansas City Fed, is a leading proponent of breaking up banks considered too-big-to-fail....
...Visa sees its Rwandan experiment as an investment and “expects to make money”....
...On Friday, the group bought an $11bn chunk of AmTrust in a deal assisted by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....
...Greenberg has been quietly building up a family of insurance companies that could compete with A.I.G. To fill the ranks of his venture, C.V....
...He is chairman and chief investment officer of Emerging Markets Management LLC, a US investment firm specializing in emerging market equities, and author of The Emerging Markets Century....
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