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...Including mortgage payments, mortgage insurance and property taxes, he pays $3,500 per month more today than what he spent on rent at the family’s last home....
...into bank parent companies....
...Big private equity-cum-asset managers buy insurance companies (see also: Apollo/Athene, Brookfield/American Equity) not to cross-sell, but to gain a source of stable capital....
...Only 39 per cent of American employees now want a fully in-person job, LinkedIn reported a couple of weeks ago....
...During the 1990s, Greg Abel, then a high-flying energy industry executive, lived just a few blocks from Buffett in Omaha, Nebraska, the home of Berkshire....
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...The PLD impact assessment estimated annual payouts from the reformed system could reach €217mn and insurance costs for companies rise around 10 per cent....
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...Olena Bilousova, a senior researcher at KSE, said: “It’s been a normal business strategy for years for western technology companies to have manufacturing facilities across Asia....
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