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...Companies in Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index spent $175bn buying back shares in the three months to June, according to preliminary data from S&P....
...’d commissioned....
...Need to know: Global economy Sultan Al Jaber, the president-designate of COP28 and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, promised to “supercharge” global climate finance, finalise a $100bn fund to...
...The group notes that although median incomes in Asia have increased markedly, an estimated 80 per cent of the population of Asia is still without insurance cover....
...Meanwhile, Insurance Post reports that insurtech Bought by Many has appointed Jim Sutcliffe, the former CEO of Old Mutual and Prudential UK, as its new chair....
...Our insurance team’s favorite life companies are Prudential and ASR We remain overweight of P&C Defensive: The sector should be agnostic to the cycle (having no correlation with HY spreads and PMIs) yet...
...s platform in Q1, resulting in the company's highest number of quarterly active customers since the crypto asset bubble in Q4 2017/Q1 2018....
...We anticipate travel insurance claims being topped out at £5m net of reinsurance and a relatively small impact from loss of profits....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...Only a handful of companies have liquidity issues by 2021,on our estimates –assuming credit cannot be rolled....
...Today’s chapter of the Great Perpetual Motion Flight-to-S***e Rally of 2020 looks like this: Chemring’s leading the FTSE 250 gainers on interims....
...Wednesday’s development in the NMC vs Muddy Waters et al saga saw Krupa Global Investments, a Czech activist fund, say apropos of nothing that it holds positions equivalent to just over 0.4 per cent of the...
...In Break up to make up, which looked at the potential for several European conglomerates to break up, we calculated the conglomerate discount at Prudential to be 22%, slightly higher than the European insurance...
...This finding is also in line with previous literature on the subject (Yoshikawa et al., 1995; Pras et al., 2009; Pras & Guostavino, 2010)....
...Negative rates are not going to happen in America in GREED & fear’s view....
...Feldman et al. have a sense why that is:The access to capital investment and the ability to spread risks among many small shareholders appears to facilitate heavier investments in R&D, arguably the riskiest...
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...(Quartz) The upper crust The median pay for a chief executive of an S&P 500 company in 2017: $12.1m. Most received raises of nearly 10 per cent or more last year....
...Court documents filed in New York show that Siddiqui’s lawyer told an arbitration panel that during his time at Apollo, he clashed with the firm about fees it charged an affiliated life insurance company...
...The scene of one of Europe’s most catastrophic financial crises may seem an odd choice for the EU headquarters of America’s second-biggest bank....
...I’d set up and capitalise a European debt management agency to create ESBies (the European safe bonds of Brunnermeier et al). I’d set up a eurozone growth capital fund for fast-growing companies....
...This may be because journalists write differently, of course — but Baker et al believe it is because the US government has become bigger, more complex and more polarised, meaning that election results are...
...A second study, Jones et al. (2011), analyzed a treatment for localized prostate cancer (an early stage of prostate cancer with a five-year survival rate on the order of 80 percent)....
...Official guidance is required on whether Gareth Bale et al were expressing confidence in the UK’s future as a free trader, or were just better at kicking a ball around....
...Buffet tells us nothing about how his insurance companies have been quantifying the impact of climate change on their losses....
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