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...They followed the Pinault family of Ch Latour et al, who, in 2013, bought what is now called The Eisele Vineyard from the Araujos, and were so confident of their savoir-faire that they didn’t even impose...
...Companies converted production lines to serve a public purpose: brewers and cosmetics firms made hand gel, fashion companies made personal protective equipment and even Formula One engineers made low cost...
...Here, an alternative option could be for Centrica to sell its North American energy supply business. Overall, we estimate 12%-40% downside under this scenario....
...To take one case in point, thanks to better-off Americans’ unexpected increase in lifespan, the long-term care insurance industry has been driven into near-insolvency over the past decade....
...From 2018, they will also attract employer national insurance....
...C Ian Ormiston has joined Old Mutual Global Investors as a fund manager and will launch a new European Smaller Companies fund in the fourth quarter....
...… Made in India: Cooked in Britain: Recipes from an Indian Family Kitchen, by Meera Sodha, Fig Tree, RRP£20 Any book on another culture’s cuisine rides a fine line between authenticity and the realities...
...A virtually unlimited budget enabled van der Rohe, alongside American architect Philip Johnson, then his acolyte, to use sumptuous materials....
...For the first time this weekend, eating al fresco seems plausible and we fry bacon on the van’s impressive mini gas cooker....
...The centrepiece is an EU-wide rule book to ensure shareholders and bond holders – and not taxpayers – are first in line to pay for bank rescues....
...Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life (Viking) is a collection of letters she wrote to her sister describing the hilarious comings and goings of the north London literary set, including Alan Bennett (...
...The aim was to create an equities business as part of an integrated investment bank along American lines, to be known as Barclays de Zoete Wedd (BZW)....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...I will not go back to the days when health insurance companies had unchecked power to cancel your policy, deny you coverage, or charge women differently from men....
...It told of an employee who had returned from a family outing to find that her house had been broken into, and all three family laptops pinched....
...Schooled at Eton, he studied history at Oxford, where he drove a blue Porsche and partied with future chancellor George Osborne et al as a member of the Bullingdon Club....
...His big break came nearly two decades later when Sandy Weill – the future Citigroup chief and family friend – persuaded Mr Dimon, fresh from his Harvard MBA, to join him at American Express, rejecting offers...
...Antoine van Agtmael coined the phrase “emerging markets” in 1981....
...., Inc., which was formed in 1950 and focuses on highly specialized insurance lines; far more, we believe, have joined other, larger companies....
...I think one of the proposals that has been focused on by the Republicans as a way to reduce costs is allowing insurance companies to sell across state lines....
...Durant grew up on his family’s dairy farm north of Paris....
...In other cases, the pain will be even more broadly felt, says Huw van Steenis, analyst at Morgan Stanley. “I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...As executive pay has dropped in line with shareholder returns, “rewards for failure” are being steadily squeezed out of the system, say consultants....
...of Chinese-American scholars....
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