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...Dr Kaushal Kadam When I used to hear my parents talking about this, they would be like, in India, it used to be like within a year married couples would have babies. And now the trend is changing....
...The small company was founded in 1949 — the same year Japan logged a record 2.69mn births amid the postwar baby boom. The estimate for last year was under 800,000, less than a third of the peak....
...The view ignited a fierce debate, but it chimed with broader trends....
...They are looking for a long-term, not temporary solution to their unsatisfactory life in China.”...
...The firm helped J&J create a limited liability company in Texas, forming the subsidiary that would take on the baby talc claims....
...(FT) Volunteering, such as at a vaccination centre, can make one happier, healthier and more satisfied with life. Purpose-seeking companies should take note, writes Pilita Clark....
...I've been in my bag baby. Uh, Virgil Louis V on my back, baby. Living fast, dying slow that's the catch, baby. Suicide doors fuck around and crash baby. I do the dash baby, uh....
...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...
...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...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 29 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, warned during a forum on December 8 that some tech companies were becoming “too big to fail”, as the micropayment market they...
...Last month, KKR got on board, agreeing to buy the former life insurance unit of Goldman Sachs for about $4.4bn....
...Kris Licht, chief customer officer at Reckitt Benckiser, says the company is learning from the 2003 Sars outbreak, which paved the way in southern China and Hong Kong for new habits from online shopping...
...(FT) Fire up the jet As commercial airlines tick by on life support, the private aircraft industry is taking off....
...He believes Uber’s experience in moving food and people has positioned it to become something of a “superapp”, a popular and profitable concept in China, where almost all of daily life is now managed through...
...Our insurance team’s favorite life companies are Prudential and ASR We remain overweight of P&C Defensive: The sector should be agnostic to the cycle (having no correlation with HY spreads and PMIs) yet...
...The V-shaped recovery in consumer spending feels too bullish in our view....
...However, these figures understate the risk to market dividends in our view given that they largely exclude Energy and Insurance where there have been few company comments at this stage....
...(FT) EU v Silicon Valley New data-sharing principles laid out by the EU this week seek to crack open the data silos that have helped to reinforce the power of the dominant tech companies....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...A local credit co-operative sold her a $50,000 life insurance policy she didn’t need....
...That said, Rio, BHP, Anglo and other entities (ie, China-backed companies) have financial firepower for opportunistic M&A if markets continue to deteriorate....
...Rodney Cook has quit as chief executive of Just Group after a turbulent year for the life insurance company....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...improves in 2H20 from COVD-10 abating in China....
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