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...Chubb has appointed the City of London grandee Adair Turner to oversee its operations in Europe as chief executive Evan Greenberg continues to build a global insurance empire....
...Rather than run soup kitchens for them, employing people reduces the stigma attached to homelessness,” says David Adair, PwC’s head of community affairs....
...The Swiss fund failed to oust Brian O’Cathain, chief executive of Irish hydrocarbons hunter Petroceltic, at a vote in Dublin....
...Petroceltic’s chairman Robert Adair, who holds a 19 per cent stake in the company, and Dovenby Capital, the vehicle of Malaysian businessman Dato’ Ahmad Fuad which owns 9 per cent, are both expected to support...
...Petroceltic, led by chairman Robert Adair and chief executive Brian O’Cathain, said the withdrawal of Dragon Oil’s proposed offer still left the company well positioned to continue with its development plans...
...Petroceltic, led by chairman Robert Adair and chief executive Brian O’Cathain, said it is willing to recommend the offer after talks with shareholders, according to a statement today....
...The Marvels, by Brian Selznick, Scholastic, RRP£16.99/RRP$32.99 Part graphic novel, part prose narrative, The Marvels is a puzzle-box of a book....
...“Our skills at Petroceltic are more on the exploration and business development, while Melrose is very much petroleum engineering development-focused,” said Brian O’Cathain, Petroceltic chief executive....
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...But it was only a couple of weeks ago, Treasury sources say, when the quad met again, this time joined by Sir Mervyn and Adair Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, that the plan for “funding...
...The late Sir Brian Pitman of Lloyds, exemplar of the astute high street banker, carefully avoided “merchant banking”, as it was then known, as being too much trouble....
...According to people familiar with Wednesday’s private meeting between Daniel Tarullo, Fed governor, and executives including Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs and Brian Moynihan of Bank of America, the discussion...
...Treasury chief secretary: Lord (Adair) Turner. As a one-time proponent of UK membership of the euro, the Financial Services Authority chairman would counterbalance Lord Lamont....
...., Bernanke received an e-mail from Brian Madigan, head of the Fed’s monetary affairs division, explaining that “as you’ve probably seen, markets have sold off again overnight” and updating him on activity...
...In that context, finance minister Brian Lenihan’s “threat” – that further state funding to AIB would be withdrawn if it paid any more bonuses – was as hollow as they come....
...Brian Coulton, Fitch Ratings UK growth was undoubtedly ‘pumped up’ by the global credit boom in the middle decade....
...Stefan Wagstyl, Nicholas Timmins and Brian Groom take a look at the candidates who did not quite make it, and review the events that propelled them to public prominence in 2005 If 2005 was the year of Google...
...In a year of achievement, politics and pensions to the fore Stefan Wagstyl, Nicholas Timmins and Brian Groom take a look at the candidates who did not quite make it, and review the events that propelled...
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