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...side effects, leaving national governments on the hook instead....
...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....
...JAB has acquired stakes in two companies from Fairfax, taking over its interests in Crum & Forster Pet Insurance Group and Pethealth in a deal announced on Monday....
...AI is giving underwriters godlike powers, according to the president of Sompo Holdings, one of Japan’s biggest insurance companies....
...Last year, the authorities agreed a deal to sell debt-ridden national airline Air India to conglomerate Tata Group, ending a two-decade hunt for a buyer....
...insurance and dividend taxation from April, and to raise the employment allowance from £4,000 to £5,000.Make UK, the manufacturers’ organisation, called for the national insurance rise to be delayed, warning...
...As ever, send your thoughts, queries and philosophical riddles to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com). Happy reading!...
...The responses point to higher fuel and utility bills, rising National Insurance and business taxes, supply chain disruption and the combination of higher wages and labour shortages....
...Not since the one-child policy has a national strategy touched nearly every individual in China....
...The national insurance rise had already gone through. It had been passed as a health and social care levy, which people broadly bought into at the time....
...While theatre owners and companies welcomed the extra money ploughed into the sector, the Budget announcement did not address the lack of Covid-related insurance for big productions....
...two weeks ago announced a merger with its insurance affiliate, Athene....
...In the news Apollo to merge with Athene Apollo Global Management is to merge with Athene Holding, the life insurance company it created at the height of the financial crisis, transforming the alternative...
...Japanese insurer Tokio Marine has said the insurance policies at the heart of the Greensill Capital collapse may not have been valid, as investors pressed the company to detail its exposure to the lender...
...The rebound in macro data, which has given hopes of a V-shaped recovery, could prove to be an illusion and the recovery will slow down.”...
...There should be a national minute’s applause for the oil analysts....
...Institutions such as Daiichi Life, a Japanese insurance company, and individual investors have invested in the bonds....
...If you missed it, this long read by our media correspondent Anna Nicolaou charts the drama of The People v Harvey Weinstein trial....
...s coronavirus epidemic are eased — it will suggest that the short, sharp shock to the world’s second-largest economy since January might well be followed by a second-quarter rebound — the much vaunted “V-shaped...
...Combining these 5 top-down criteria with our bottom up analysis suggest that many of the strongest national champions are the place to be invested during this period of market turbulence....
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
...ESM new programme, thanks to the Sure unemployment support, thanks to the EIB additional guarantees for companies....
...Polo Tang of UBS remains a seller: [V]isibility on the bigger picture issues remains limited....
...“The idea of EU law is that any EU national or company can see justice done in another EU member state,” says Prof Bermann....
...Having ruled out increases in income tax, national insurance and VAT rates in its 2019 manifesto, the government will likely initially look to other options....
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