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...Secondly, certain important types of insurance, such as construction risk, which would be needed to build oil and gas plants, are out of scope....
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...The manufacturing and construction sectors are both likely to take a hit too....
...From what we see,the company’s current approach to fixed-cost allocation is completely appropriate, but the effects are magnified by effectively being a one-product company....
...Covid-19 patients have been treated for free whether or not they hold health insurance....
...Calls on American chief executives to tackle inequality are getting louder, deals are getting bigger and there’s a looming election that could change the face of the world’s financial centre....
...Materials and Financials have usually been the best performing sectors after significant market troughs, in particular Construction Materials, Metals & Mining, Diversified Financials and Insurance....
...Doing so would cause hardship for millions of families, and would also contract the economy as low income families cut back on spending....
...A website for Celvam Management, which Celvam Capital's latest accounts indicate is “under mutual control”, describes the group as a “single-family office, administrating a diversified range of interests...
...(Nation) How China conquered a piece of America Construction workers maimed and killed. Millions paid to the governor’s family. An impossibly lucrative gambling operation. And all on US soil....
...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....
...Then we created Vix futures, and Americans love sugar, so people bought them,” Shah jokes. More was to come....
...Téthys, the holding company that administers the wealth of the Bettencourt-Meyers family, who own a stake in L’Oréal, has hired Blaise Duault, a person familiar with the move has said....
...AIG’s connection with Stowe dates back to the 1940s, when company founder Cornelius V Starr was a frequent visitor....
...According to CB Insights, between 2010 and 2015 just 13 per cent of investments were in insurance technology companies....
...From “activist investors” to investment banks, from management consultants to asset managers, from high-frequency traders to insurance companies, today, financiers dictate terms to American business, rather...
...Andrzej was born in 1978 in Montreal to Polish and American parents. He grew up in Poland, spending most of his summers with his family in Japan....
...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....
...(Financial Times) In response to regulation, Goldman ditching less profitable clients and changing rules for hedge funds (WSJ) Argentina v holdouts: plus ça change (Financial Times) Espírito Santo: the...
...In 1979, the skyscraper was sold for $85m to pension fund Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund....
...Barclays was a family bank with Quaker roots which post-Big Bang embraced de Zoete & Bevan and Wedd Durlacher, the pre-Big Bang stock broker and jobber, plus most of Lehman Bros. It was not alone....
...Others have suggested that the issue involved not China Life but China Construction Bank, one of China’s top four state-owned banks....
...Elmore John Leonard was born on October 11 1925 into a Roman Catholic family in New Orleans. His father was employed by General Motors and his work soon brought them to the company’s home town....
...The insurer is trading at a price equal to 13 times projected earnings, rather more than its peers British-American Investments Company (Kenya), trading at 10.8 times projected earnings, and Pan Africa Insurance...
...Big Tick winners in this category range from law firms, such as Freshfields and Pinsent Masons, to the Wates Group – one of the UK’s largest building and construction companies – and the Hyde Group, a social...
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