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...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
...He also extended a $30mn loan to a company registered in the name of Epstein’s private pilot. The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet....
...Artémis, the holding company of France’s Pinault family, bought arch rival Christie’s two decades ago for $1.2bn. Read the full story from the DD team here....
...The 1969 Knights of Columbus HQ in New Haven is almost medieval in its scale, four cylindrical towers holding up a mass of rusting, industrial steel, while the 1974 College Life Insurance Company building...
...He had been prosecuted after alerting shareholders to a fraud at Equity Funding Corporation of America, an insurance company....
...Uber has denied responsibility because the driver was not carrying a passenger at the time, which means its insurance was not applicable....
...So if you don’t need money; if you own an office building and you have no debt and you want to borrow 40 per cent of today’s value there’s some insurance companies that will make that capital available....
...If growth in developed countries starts to look like a “U”, in emerging markets it already is a “V”....
...LLC; Carlyle Investment Management L.L.C.; Blackstone Capital Partners V L.P.; Centerbridge Capital Partners, L.P....
...“I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
...The opacity of CDS contracts, which offer insurance against banks, companies and governments defaulting on debt, has been blamed for exacerbating the financial crisis....
...Mr Cowdery had agreed last year to merge UK insurer Resolution, which he founded, with Friends, before selling Resolution to arch-rival Hugh Osmond for just under £5bn ($8.9bn), plunging Friends into turmoil...
...But his interest is thought to have been one of the factors that forced Friends into the arms of Resolution, though their £8bn merger was ultimately abandoned, in favour of Resolution selling itself to arch...
...However, this was immediately followed by a hostile all-cash offer from Hugh Osmond – Resolution chairman Clive Cowdery’s arch-rival in the market for buying life assurance funds that no longer write new...
...Home Depot, the home improvement retailer that sponsors the US national football team, is also backing Univision’s match coverage, along with McNeil’s Tylenol and Allstate Insurance....
...Revisionist history Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the recently ousted chairman of AIG, the world’s largest insurance company, has always been a tough businessman, but even he might have felt a bit hurt if he...
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