Hints and tips:
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Exane likes Sampo and Lancashire as the most defensive of the property and casualty insurers....
...Simon Kirby, chief operating officer at Rolls-Royce, is stepping down just 19 months after taking the post, becoming the first high-profile casualty of the FTSE engineer’s latest restructuring....
...European bank consolidation on the cards A trio of stories from continental Europe suggest that bank consolidation may well be picking up....
...Hartford Financial, a smaller rival, jumped more than 6 per cent to a fresh seven-year high of $44.19 and Travelers Companies rose 2.73 per cent to $99.30....
...So the FDIC as liquidator of Penn Square et al asserted that the “sales” of loan participations by Penn Square and the others were not “true sales” that gave rights to the underlying collateral (whatever...
...In the mid seventies, Chile was poised to serve as the test lab for the economic ideas propounded by Milton Friedman et al at the University of Chicago....
...There are also smaller pockets in Australia and continental Europe. “The Tamil diaspora in the US and the UK are not riffraff....
...Musorgsky’s four-hour epic dramatises the turmoil preceding Peter the Great’s accession but carries modern resonances in Vladimir Putin et al....
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