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...Legal & General’s new chief executive António Simões promised a strategic overhaul that would create a “simpler investment case” for the FTSE 100 insurer, asset manager and housebuilder, as he presented...
...When António Simões left HSBC in mid-2020 after more than a decade to become Santander’s head of Europe, it was a natural progression as he grabbed the next rung of the global banking ladder....
...UN secretary-general António Guterres welcomed reports on Thursday that all seven full members of Haiti’s transitional presidential council had been nominated, after days of delays....
...The 18th-century Venetian artist Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, was renowned for his paintings of his home city. His 1740 work “The Grand Canal with S....
...Its owner, Antonio José Pereira, is going for a hat trick. He tells me the secret to a great tapa is that it’s “served hot and made with quality ingredients without rushing things”....
...Puig was founded as a perfume company in 1914 by Antonio Puig, who reinvented himself after a ship carrying the merchandise of his previous import business was sunk by a German submarine....
...Legal & General, the FTSE 100 insurer and asset manager, has appointed António Simões as its first new chief executive in more than a decade to replace Sir Nigel Wilson....
...Higher interest rates should help Wilson’s successor António Simões via bulk annuities. L&G sells these to defined benefit pension schemes, capping their risks....
...The Carmel Beach Hotel, operated by Mirabel, the hotel-restaurant company owned by local David Fink, has taken over Colonial Terrace at the corner of 13th and San Antonio (a serendipitous location: San Antonio...
...Of late, L&G’s bulk annuity sales were roughly £7bn. This year it hit that target by the interim stage. Incoming boss António Simões will start on the front foot....
...Sesto Quatrini conducts at sprightly speeds. ★★★★☆ ‘L’elisir d’amore’ to October 10, roh.org.uk...
...And the violently pornographic language used by two guest Latin trap rappers — Bryant Myers and Luar La L — is actively objectionable....
...As a young child, Dudamel joined El Sistema (“The System”), the hugely influential public programme of musical education that was founded by the Venezuelan economist and musician José Antonio Abreu in 1975...
...One answer is that all three are led by ethnic minority leaders: António Costa, Leo Varadkar, and Rishi Sunak....
...Portugal’s central bank chief Mário Centeno is facing an independent ethics review after he was proposed as the next prime minister by Socialist premier António Costa, who quit last week over a corruption...
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...The menu at the classic Casa Fermín on Calle San Francisco — where Meryl Streep dined with Antonio Banderas after receiving her Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts last year — includes wild salmon from...
...apology it soon became clear it was hollow, when it emerged Griffiths’s UN colleagues had been stopped from crossing the Turkish border into Syria — on the orders of the office of UN secretary-general António...
...This is the model recommended by 67 Pall Mall’s head sommelier, Federico Antonio Moccia, for those really short on space....
...In response to Ronan L Tynan’s letter (“Guterres has no excuse for delays helping Syrian quake victims”, February 20) I would recommend the author look at Article 2 (7) of the Charter of the UN....
...Buy a case and save some for a while.£36 The Wine Society L’Aurage 2018 Castillon (15%)From the same stable as Le Tertre Roteboeuf and in the same exuberant, late-picked style....
...“There’s no reason for them to be so cheap, but there’s just no demand,” said Dan Kruse, chief executive of the San Antonio-based auctioneer, who has been selling oilfield equipment for four decades....
...Over in Aldeburgh, restaurateur George Pell opened the buzzy L’Escargot Sur-Mer – a sister to his Soho outpost – in the summer of 2020....
...The walls of the sala blu feature van Dyck and Antonio Maria Vassallo; by the entrance to the library is a Portrait of a Lady by Rogier van der Weyden....
...FTSE 100 insurer Legal & General has appointed António Simões as its new chief executive to replace Sir Nigel Wilson, who is retiring after more than a decade in the job....
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