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...You can buy travel insurance from insurance companies, banks, travel agents, supermarkets, holiday companies and online comparison websites....
...It also offers speed in the development of everything from life-saving drugs to alternative materials for electric vehicle batteries that could reduce reliance on scarce resources such as lithium....
...Although the proportion of risky assets rose in recent years as life insurance companies frantically hunted for yields in what was then a low-rate world, it was at similar levels just before the 2008 financial...
...According to the IMF, almost 10 per cent — $850bn — of US life insurance assets were owned or managed by private equity firms by the end of 2021....
...Many health experts argue that a growing reliance on emergency contraception as opposed to more standard methods, particularly among some young people, should be countered via increased education, outreach...
...It’s in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, outside the headquarters of an insurance company located alongside an interstate highway. This is a pittance, globally speaking....
...Each of the following will be up for sale: India’s fifth-largest privately owned general insurance company, a stockbroker, a stake in an asset manager and Reliance Capital’s 51 per cent share in a life insurance...
...Charlie loves his business and trucking life. He hopes to expand to five lorries. But you should hear him on France and the Gendarmerie. Henry V would blush....
...They are looking for a long-term, not temporary solution to their unsatisfactory life in China.”...
...The list of institutional investors that have made commitments to the fund includes Dai-ichi Life Insurance, a leading European pension fund, Standard Chartered Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, according...
...To be sure, we would probably all be better off if there were less self-insurance for bad times and a greater reliance on a robust and reliable public safety net....
...We could follow the life-preserving precedent of the ban on tobacco advertising and stop advertising high carbon products and lifestyles, from the fossil fuel companies themselves to gas-guzzling SUVs and...
...Instead, he may be more likely to tinker with the standard annual allowance....
...As The Ringer reports, 15 years after the $60 game arrived with the Xbox 360, the $70 game is now set to become the standard with Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War launching at $69.99 on the Xbox Series X...
...Also, alongside the trauma of the pandemic, people have glimpsed other possibilities that raise questions of quality of life above those of consumption alone, or its euphemism, ‘standards of living’....
...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...
...These include paying a fair wage and providing benefits and ensuring that employees’ work-life balance is tolerable....
...Its iptiQ unit helps other companies to develop insurance products....
...So depending on how you see things, Facebook’s plan to buy a multibillion-dollar stake in Reliance Jio, the mobile internet service company, has come at an opportune time....
...One is State Bank of India; the other is state-controlled Life Insurance Corporation of India....
...The V-shaped recovery in consumer spending feels too bullish in our view....
...Meetings are now virtual, and work from home is the new standard....
...“However, the reliance on credit to pay bills means that many don’t have the reserves to cope with the financial impact of a significant life event such as job loss, illness or bereavement....
...Forced technology transfers have been outlawed, ownership limits on pension management and life insurance enterprises have been relaxed....
...With £341bn in assets under management, M&G will be the UK’s third-biggest listed fund group, behind Standard Life Aberdeen (£577bn) and Schroders (£444bn)....
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