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...The real estate arm of the French insurance company has agreed to purchase Bry-sur-Marne Studios, east of Paris, which produced director Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, one of the Hunger Games...
...Indeed, Continental stock exchanges suffer some of the same problems as London, including poor liquidity, subscale domestic investor pools, and the virtual absence of retail investors....
...They say that the fees they can charge in most cases are capped at about €7,000 and are often paid by their clients’ insurance. “It’s cost intensive,” said Cäsar-Preller owner Joachim Cäsar-Preller....
...Brookfield is seeing some compelling opportunities in the UK and continental Europe, Flatt added....
...In 2008, she founded RAW Material Company, an independent art space in the city....
...Results: Apple is the latest technology company to report earnings. Carlyle Group, Moderna, ConocoPhillips, Kellogg, Coinbase, Lyft and Expedia also report....
...Citi had been in negotiations with privately owned Russian companies including Expobank and insurance company Reso-Garantia over the fate of its consumer and commercial businesses, the Financial Times reported...
...In the last few decades of the 20th century, big domestic pension funds (such as Railpen, the railways scheme) and the insurance companies that managed them (including Standard Life and Scottish Widows)...
...As the pain of interest rates has taken a toll on companies and consumers, the economy has moved sharply into reverse....
...“The fact of the matter is [that] this is far broader than just insurance brokerage,” Williams said, although he adds that insurance is likely to remain the company’s largest business line....
...Barriers to exit Western companies looking to offload their Russian business are struggling to strike deals, faced with limited potential buyers, piling expenses and limited return prospects, the FT writes...
...That has meant Berkshire Hathaway, the sprawling industrials-to-insurance conglomerate he leads, has often avoided investments in Big Tech companies such as Google....
...Companies It’s a week of insurance industry earnings reports....
...Emefa Cole’s work, for example, was spotted by a V&A curator at the Handmade in Britain contemporary craft and design fair, and the museum now holds one of Cole’s rings....
...Called Art Intelligence Global — or AIG, but not to be confused with the insurance company — they are joined by another former Sotheby’s senior staffer, Adam Chinn....
...Companies This is a week for insurance earnings reports....
...Life is even tougher for insurance companies....
...Main reports Monday Pearson; Direct Line Insurance Tuesday Continental; Standard Life Aberdeen; M&G; ITV; TP ICAP Wednesday Franco Nevada; Oracle; Adidas; Lukoil; Cathay Pacific Airways; Pirelli; Legal...
...pay the same tax as small local companies....
...Investors include Nippon Life Insurance, technology company NEC and Japan Women’s University....
...VW, Daimler and Continental are yet to hold their annual meetings....
...But Ed Cole, an investment strategist at Man GLG, argues it compares favourably to that of western central banks such as the US Federal Reserve....
...Overall, we assume that in developed markets, namely North America and Western Europe, volumes decline by 20% y/y in 2020....
...The V-shaped recovery in consumer spending feels too bullish in our view....
...It will use the money to expand into other parts of continental Europe....
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