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...SABMiller and Anglo American listed in London in the same year, 1999. Their missions were clearer — to make beer and dig up minerals....
...As a South African steeped in the business culture of his country, he should lack inhibiting attachments to the Skandia subsidiary where Mr Roberts was once boss....
...Previously, Ms Poon was the Hong Kong-based director of the institutional advisory group at American Century Investments....
...The life assurance sector, which includes many of the biggest names, such as Royal Skandia, Friends Provident and Axa, is a big strength....
...All three make Olympic debuts in this exciting class, the women’s Elliot 6m, and will be closely hunted by American challengers....
...Some groups, such as Nokia and Skandia, run the boards in English....
...Ben Ainslie struck gold in the Skandia Sail for Gold regatta on Saturday, confirming the team from Great Britain as the world’s best Olympic classes sailing nation....
...I also moved a third fund, which I built up with a former employer, into a Skandia drawdown scheme last July. It has performed well since then, but it is still 30 per cent in cash....
...The time when demand from west European, North American, Russian and Middle Eastern buyers was so high that shipyards and equipment suppliers could virtually dictate all costs has now passed....
...One story was that some shareholders have been lobbying for the sale or spin-off of its Skandia division....
...● Skandia has launched two passive funds, Skandia UK Index and Skandia Gilt....
...By comparison, absolute return funds, North American equity funds and property funds gained favour in August....
...This did not stop Allfunds Bank, the major European and Latin American fund platform. It teamed up with Nucleus in 2006 as part of a bid to increase its reach to UK asset managers....
...The result is a $135m writedown and executives are working fast to make sure the American insurance division is “appropriately capitalised.” And that’s not all....
...That view is shared by Tim Sewell, sponsorship manager for Skandia, the investment fund provider and long-time sailing backer....
...The rest of the financial sector was unsettled by the wider implications of travails of their American peers....
...The American side in essence alleges that the Swiss have broken the terms of the Deed of Gift, the ancient rules that govern the America’s Cup that was first staged in 1851....
...I have an American friend who used to think a Force 4 wind in the Atlantic was a gale. Back home in San Diego, he and his partner are successful J/105 racers....
...A ninth, American Express’s Adviser Service, closed in January because it had failed to establish sufficient scale of operation....
...Skandia applies a range of charges to the 21 products in its wrap....
...Not only did 92.42 per cent of its own investors vote in favour – some of Skandia’s were warming to the deal too....
...Skandia’s position is not quite straightforward either....
...Old Mutual , the South-African based insurance group, added 3 per cent to a five-year high of 179p as it continued to inch closer to a full takeover of Sweden’s Skandia....
...Apart from American and French residents who have to pay their countries' income taxes, the tiny principality's other foreign residents still enjoy no income or inheritance taxes....
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