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...Claure also has plenty of experience in the telecoms industry, having founded mobile phone distributor Brightstar in the late 1990s, before selling the business to Japan’s SoftBank in 2014 for $1.5bn....
...Traditional sales via distributors and other wholesalers were just 17 per cent. (Exports represented a mere two per cent.)...
...It was the tenth anniversary of its spinout from French insurance company Axa, a deal dubbed “the robbery of the century” by a rival, and likely the best deal of Senequier’s investment career....
...The SoftBank-backed chip designer spent the most on IPO-related non-underwriting costs since the flotation of insurance group Axa’s US arm in 2018, according to a Financial Times analysis of SEC filings...
...Nicolas-Louis Guille-Biel, global head of ETFs and product strategy at Axa IM, said the company was currently in talks with digital platforms as it looked for distributors of its ETFs....
...ETFs are often excluded from these traditional distribution networks as, unlike mutual funds, they do not pay “rebates” to the distributors....
...Gates’s biggest UK investments, for example, have been in retailer Carpetright, jet servicing group Signature Aviation and Bunzl, a distributor of disposable cutlery....
...Some may choose to shun the incumbent or adopt a hybrid approach, hosting their own website and restricting the lines to which a third-party distributor has access....
...hedge funds into macro winners and tech losers (FT) GoTo shares jump as investors back Indonesia’s fast-growing market (FT + Lex) US banks set for big hit to revenues as dealmaking dries up (FT + Lex) Axa...
...Danish energy company Ørsted on Monday sold a 50 per cent stake in its proposed Hornsea 2 wind farm development to French bank Crédit Agricole and insurer Axa in a £3bn deal....
...Village Roadshow, an indie distributor that has financed movies including Joker, is also exploring a sale, according to people familiar with the matter....
...Investindustrial has appointed Charles Dupont, the former chief of both Schroders and Axa, as senior principal and head of French coverage. He will be based between London and Paris....
...First to Resolute Investment Managers, an asset management platform and distributor, in 2016 and, the following year, to Japan’s Nikko Asset Management....
...Around the back of the giant tin warehouse, next to a distributor of industrial valves, is our venue....
...It is the regional distributor for the Sinopharm vaccine, which has been the most widely used jab in the UAE’s successful vaccination drive. About 93 doses have been administered per 100 people....
...Mr Colao joins Henri de Castries, the former chairman and chief executive of Axa, and Achim Berg, a former Bertelsmann executive, as prominent European business leaders now working at the US firm....
...The lawsuit’s focus on agreements with distributors has parallels with the justice department’s lawsuit against Microsoft in the 1990s, a similarity that the government acknowledged....
...It adds that, unlike Microsoft, it had not imposed exclusive contracts that forced distributors to shut out its rivals....
...In 2018 French insurer Axa floated Axa Equitable, its US life insurance business, as it refocused on property and casualty insurance....
...When Axa floated its US life insurance business, then called Axa Equitable, in 2018, it had to price the shares below the expected price range, for example....
...At least 10 large shareholders in Google’s parent company, including Axa Investment Managers, the Church of England and Aviva Investors, have co-filed a resolution calling on the company to strengthen its...
...“It strengthens the publishers’ negotiating power to find solutions that should be a win-win for publishers, large distributors of content like Google and Facebook, and consumers.”...
...Axa has replaced the head of Axa XL, the business created in 2018 after the French group bought Bermuda-based XL....
...“The purpose of controlling the distributors, we believe, is to fraudulently inflate Anta’s reported revenues and/or decrease its reported expenses.”...
...Ms O’Donoghue joins from Architas, the fund of funds manager owned by Axa, the French insurer....
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