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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....
...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...
...(FT) Business shuns Prince Andrew The Duke of York is losing corporate support for his charitable work, with companies including KPMG and insurance company Aon distancing themselves from the Queen’s second...
...He had been prosecuted after alerting shareholders to a fraud at Equity Funding Corporation of America, an insurance company....
...Mr Musk’s plans for a colony on Mars — he calls it “extinction insurance” — still seem a distant prospect....
...The switch would save Co-op Group from sharply increasing its own leverage or necessarily selling assets such as Co-operative Insurance....
...Colony Capital, the US private equity group, is selling the 118-hectare vineyard it bought for €77m a decade ago to MACSF, the insurance mutual serving doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals....
...Oaktree Capital Management has won the latest auction for assets held by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, allowing the investment group to take on a $1.7bn portfolio of distressed residential loans from...
...Mr Barrack’s desire to transform Colony into a listed entity comes at a time when traditional private equity firms are having trouble raising money and public companies are taking advantage of ample liquidity...
...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....
...Those who are considering a bid include Fortress Investment Group, Barry Sternlicht of Starwood Capital, Related Companies developer Steve Ross and Colony Capital....
...If growth in developed countries starts to look like a “U”, in emerging markets it already is a “V”....
...Barclays on Monday received three bids for iShares from private equity groups....
...LLC; Carlyle Investment Management L.L.C.; Blackstone Capital Partners V L.P.; Centerbridge Capital Partners, L.P....
...Colony Capital played an important role in persuading Barclays to sell iShares after being introduced to Mr Jenkins by a Middle Eastern group that is invested in both....
...“I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
...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....
...The prince, who has substantial stakes in the three hotel chains – and also owns the Savoy in London and 25 per cent of the George V in Paris – launched a $3.2bn bid for Fairmont last week with Colony Capital...
...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...
...Greenberg represented C.V. Starr & Co. Role reversal After years of serving as a top consultant to the world’s largest media groups, Michael Wolf is joining one....
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