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...A: Brad Pitt What was the FT-friendly name that Third Point’s Dan Loeb used when he was a hardcore message board poster? A: Mr Pink 8....
...When Brad Pitt struts into view in Thelma & Louise, decked out in a loose denim shirt tucked into blue jeans, his attire speaks of irreverence and a free spirit....
...Industrial Heat’s first swing at unlocking the miracle of near-limitless nuclear power was a tie-up with a controversial Italian entrepreneur, Andrea Rossi, who in 2011 claimed he had invented a cold-fusion...
...At the other end of the scale from the world of prestige cinema was Brandon Cronenberg’s unashamedly pulpy Possessor, a bloody and totally enjoyable sci-fi romp starring Andrea Riseborough as a mercenary...
...How to Lead Andreas Treichl, CEO of Erste Group Bank, talks about he held on to his job for two decades by learning from errors, in our weekly series How to Lead....
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...Mr Pitt takes over from Vincent Crowley, who stepped down in May....
...History is littered with young phenoms who endured – for example, Genghis Khan, William Pitt the Younger and Fidel Castro. All left their marks, for good and ill. Literature has its share, too: J.D....
...“If you have a day with Brad Pitt then potentially you can take a great photo, whereas if he walks past you in the street and you grab a picture with your phone, it is not going to happen.”...
...Only Brad Pitt, in the cast, is seriously adrift....
...“A third of the city’s population has changed since the wall came down,” says Andreas Stahlmann, a Berlin property developer....
...According to analysts at Fox-Pitt, Kelton, as of September 18, when the FTSE 100 index stood just short of 4,900, it would have taken a 15 per cent market fall, or unrealised losses on risky credit instruments...
...Many of the recommendations [of the Pitt review into last year’s floods] are still on the table, to be considered in 2009....
...But Farquhar Murray, analyst at Fox-Pitt, Kelton, pointed out that Munich Re had suffered from the way it accounted for declines in the value of equities....
...“This year is going to be very difficult for the UK pure players,” says Raghu Hariharan, an insurance analyst at Fox-Pitt, Kelton....
...Fox-Pitt estimated its notional exposure at $1bn, less than 5 per cent of AIG’s net notional exposure of $26bn....
...Collectors: Moss is diplomatically silent over his star-studded clientele but Brad Pitt was spotted at his Design Miami/Basel stand....
...“The underlying connection is they [buyers] are all contemporary-art collectors with pieces by artists like Andreas Gursky and Richard Prince,” he says....
...Mikir Shah, research analyst at Fox-Pitt, Kelton, who intiated coverage of Standard Life on Monday, said that potential M&A interest in Standard Life should provide a natural floor for the shares but that...
...Neil Manser, analyst at Fox-Pitt, Kelton, says that if the insurance and reinsurance industries do escape significant hurricane losses this year, “some froth may come out of the top of the market, but I...
...Inarritu won the best director award for his drama starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett and Almodovar took the award for best screenplay....
...According to Bob Yates, head of European research at Fox-Pitt, Kelton, if either Axa or Generali had “wanted to do something in the UK they would have done that and not perhaps the deals they are doing”....
...Bob Yates, head of European research at Fox-Pitt, Kelton believes Aegon does not have the financial firepower to bid for Prudential, while ING has always avoided a presence in the UK....
...Andrea Klug, a university lecturer from Detmold in Westphalia, brought her daughter Isabel to live in Malaga when she was four....
...Alessandro Roccati at Fox-Pitt, Kelton, said: “Intesa therefore has two options: either make a hostile takeover of 60 per cent minimum of Capitalia in cash or look for a friendly merger.”...
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