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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...
...Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, companies editor Among many I remember this one, about the rise and fall of entrepreneurs in Xi’s China: She rose from poverty as China prospered....
...“Although you can control a museum during your lifetime, it becomes very difficult after you’ve gone, and then there are the considerations of insurance, access and conservation.”...
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...It’s not like I’m buying mutual funds with it.” And he doesn’t share the stories with his family. “What they don’t know won’t hurt them. My wife won’t be reading this.”...
...pay the same tax as small local companies....
...In the news Apollo to merge with Athene Apollo Global Management is to merge with Athene Holding, the life insurance company it created at the height of the financial crisis, transforming the alternative...
...The American Rescue Plan was intended as stimulus. But the American Jobs Act, the American Families Plan, those are really a remaking of the size of government....
...(FT) George Floyd’s funeral In addition to family, those invited to Tuesday’s private funeral in Houston, Texas, include Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and civil rights leader, the Rev Al Sharpton...
...(FT) Adopting in a pandemic An American family flew to India to adopt their daughter days before one of the world’s strictest lockdowns was imposed in the country of 1.3bn people, doing nothing to ease...
...Meanwhile, Insurance Post reports that insurtech Bought by Many has appointed Jim Sutcliffe, the former CEO of Old Mutual and Prudential UK, as its new chair....
...Leysen told me that like others — including American Express and KBC Bank (which also operated in Congo) — the company had no say in its content....
...al — arrived....
...(FT) Business shuns Prince Andrew The Duke of York is losing corporate support for his charitable work, with companies including KPMG and insurance company Aon distancing themselves from the Queen’s second...
...Anti-government protests that have now entered a fourth month are polarising society — even dividing families....
...What else we’re reading Syria’s Assad and a Moscow skyscraper Bashar al-Assad’s extended family has bought at least 20 apartments in Moscow worth $40m over the past six years, according to an FT investigation...
...Chetty et al. (2017) find that there is a 14 years life expectancy gap between top and bottom 1% males in the US, and that this gap has widened since 2001....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...Job moves White & Case has hired Megren Al-Shaalan, a former senior legal adviser at the Saudi Royal Court, as a partner. He is based in Riyadh....
...Last week, Mr Trump filed a lawsuit to block a separate subpoena targeting his longtime accounting company....
...Doing so would cause hardship for millions of families, and would also contract the economy as low income families cut back on spending....
...The controversial investment banking veteran then became an adviser to Qatar’s al-Thani royal family, who are the bank’s largest shareholder....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...Just Eat, Domino’s, Deliveroo, UberEats, Amazon et al, have grown very rapidly but it is too early to call them winners, indeed we believe that the battle has only just begun.”...
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