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...Some companies just want brand visibility and some investors are just cashing out,” said Motilal Oswal, chair of Motilal Oswal Financial Services, a Mumbai based brokerage and mutual fund company....
...If, for instance, companies decide to hire the cheapest labour remotely, they will remove opportunities from skilled workers in more costly developed countries....
...Initially they had planned to live in the company’s compound, which resembled a country club....
...In all, Prudential manages $947bn, some $570bn of it for external clients and the remainder for its insurance company....
...The two big carmakers consequently both promised to expand luxury brands and promote heavily in China, highlighted by GM’s recent launch of its Cadillac brand in Shanghai (pictured)....
...Dasani 2.0 “Coca Cola is expected to launch a new product – “glacéau smartwater” – in Britain, aimed at the country’s 1.4 billion pound ($2.4 billion) bottled water market, a decade after its Dasani brand...
...He describes the experience as a fast-track management course, including the tricky issue of family relations....
...(WSJ) “IMS Health Inc has hired JPMorgan Chase & Co Inc to lead a proposed initial public offering that could value the private equity-owned healthcare information company at close to $10 billion, according...
...and Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance are among the companies shortlisted to buy a minority stake in Indonesia’s Panin Life for about $200 million, sources said. http://reut.rs/UqGs3l China snubs Norway in...
...For companies, the ability to use derivative trading to supplement traditional earnings, which are under increased pressure, is irresistible....
...After all, it was not the traditional insurance business that sunk AIG, but its derivatives offshoot brought down what had been a decent insurance company....
...assurance and general insurance businesses out of Edinburgh....
...In 2007, meanwhile, Putnam Investments was sold to Great-West Lifeco, a Canadian insurance company that is a subsidiary of Power Financial....
...In the view of several present and former AIG executives, Mr Sullivan was a brilliant insurance man but the group had become much more than an insurance company and he lacked a deep understanding of the...
...At one point last week, credit default swap spreads widened to 39 per cent for debt issued by Washington Mutual, which some fear will be the next shoe to drop....
...The Columbus Children’s Hospital in Ohio is now the Nationwide, after the insurance company that made a handsome donation....
...On the mainland, the Shanghai composite index closed higher for the second day in a row, rising 3.6 per cent to 2,905.01, partly on reports that China Life, the country’s biggest insurer, was buying up mutual...
...Indeed, the majority of big consumer brands in the country belong to large, international firms. In other words, let the hounds run....
...Although the banks have expanded their fee income by selling products such as insurance and mutual funds, it still generates a minority of their earnings....
...’s dominant hydro-electric power generating company Bupa, the UK-backed health insurer that operates the HBA and Mutual Community brands in Australia, and local insurer MPF are believed to have expressed...
...Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the recently ousted chairman of AIG, the world’s largest insurance company, has always been a tough businessman....
...Mutual stakes held by companies, banks and insurers once protected business from the bothersome attentions of corporate predators and ordinary shareholders alike....
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