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...Glittery drag queen Marsha P Johnson, Afro-Brazilian resistance fighter Zumbi dos Palmares and emperor Haile Selassie compete to hold court....
...Communications Q1 Tuesday Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill speaks at the London campus of the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business EU, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, UK, US: S&P...
...Infineon Technologies Q1, Linde Q4, Mitsubishi Q3, Nintendo Q3, Omnicom Q4, Prudential Financial Q4, Snap Q4, Spotify Q4, Toyota Q3, UBS Q4, Virgin Money UK Q1 trading update, Western Union Q4, Willis Towers Watson...
...The use of environmental metrics in pay has increased significantly in North America, according to a January 24 report from Willis Towers Watson....
...Tim Rourke, UK Head of P&C pricing, product, claims and underwriting at Willis Towers Watson, said insurers were having to deal with a “cocktail of rising costs”, including rising vehicle theft and long...
...The pharmacy group’s former CEO abruptly stepped down last month Results: Philips Q3 Tuesday IEA World Energy Outlook report Canada, EU, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, US: S&P Global/Cips flash October...
...Monday France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, US: S&P Global/Cips/HCOB manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data Germany: monthly retail sales figures Results: Cranswick Q1 trading...
...One of the first broadsides against private equity was Steven Kaplan and Antoinette Schoar’s Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital Flows....
...The S&P 500 and the Euro Stoxx 600 indices are up about a quarter since the start of October....
...Looking specifically at the chief executive role, median pay was $13.4mn in the US in 2019, compared with $5.5mn in the UK, according to Willis Towers Watson....
...EDF’s Matt Watson points out that recovering the wasted gas would both cut emissions of methane, the powerful greenhouse gas, and avoid “a massive new infrastructure buildout that would undermine climate...
...At the Bush Theatre, Waleed Akhtar’s The P Word chooses the latter, with immensely moving results. Here the prejudices under scrutiny are racism and homophobia....
...Regulating investment consultants like Willis Towers Watson, Mercer and Aon would not have prevented the liability-driven investing crisis....
...Monday EU, December retail sales figures Germany, December factory orders UK, S&P Global/Cips construction purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data Results: Activision Blizzard Q4, Anima FY, JFE Holdings...
...Which means that these four alone have contributed over one-fifth of the rise in the S&P in this period....
...IBM also plans to sell its Watson Health assets to private equity firm Francisco Partners in a deal announced on Friday last week, as the company directs its attention to the cloud....
...During the same period, the S&P 500 rose by 46 per cent, against just a 16 per cent rise for Europe’s Stoxx 600....
...Index providers including MSCI and S&P Global have launched an initiative aimed at supporting net zero goals by committing companies to “align all relevant services and products to achieve net zero greenhouse...
...IBM announced on Friday it plans to sell its Watson Health assets to private equity firm Francisco Partners as it directs more attention to cloud computing....
...Willis Towers Watson is advising its clients to shift from passive to active asset management, amid growing concern about the risks of passive equity investing....
...The broader S&P index is down 20 per cent, signalling that the nervousness is spreading far and wide. It’s a relief for British investors that the FTSE 100 is down only about 5 per cent....
...Among the asset managers that declined to provide diversity data to the FT was the UK’s largest, Legal and General Investment Management, which has told FTSE 100 and S&P 500 companies that from 2022 it will...
...That compares with 52 per cent of S&P 500 companies and 63 per cent of companies listed on the main European indices, according to the Willis Towers Watson research....
...But consultants Willis Towers Watson estimate that only 4 per cent of S&P 500 companies include ESG metrics in the long-term incentive plans that are more relevant to the time horizon for decarbonisation...
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