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...Some are de-risking by partnering with Malaysian firms to assemble a portion of their high-end chips, they added....
...We’re very selective.” As full-time president and CEO of the estate, Janie now runs two companies. Experience Hendrix oversees posthumous releases, CDs and documentaries, alongside music licensing....
...Half of small British companies say growth this year will be hit by rising costs, according to a new survey....
...• Funds flow to equities relative to bonds has never held up this well (given performance and low bullish sentiment) because: i) bonds risk no longer diversifying, and ii) pension/insurance companies’...
...Pricing actions suggest hard reset - The extent of the decline in core ASPs was a surprise as the company de-stocked 428 units as part of its reset....
...The selection of Mr Sabia in 2009 to run the C$327bn ($245bn) Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec, which manages the assets of about 40 Canadian pension funds and insurance plans, raised the hackles of...
...Only a handful of companies have liquidity issues by 2021,on our estimates –assuming credit cannot be rolled....
...He was previously chief executive of Barclays Private Bank for Europe, Emea and Monaco. Rodney Cook has quit as chief executive of Just Group after a turbulent year for the life insurance company....
...€1.3bn given a c.€400m fuel tailwind, which suggests the stock has de-rated from a P/E multiple of 13x to 9x....
...In Portugal, China has invested some €12bn in projects ranging from energy (Galp, REN, Energias de Portugal-EDP) to transport (TAP), with a significant presence in insurance (Fidelidade), health (Grupo Luz...
...Insurance? You get the picture. But just because it’s a mainstay of the modern investing scene, does not mean all is well inside the company....
...That doesn’t include the recent bid by China Three Gorges to take control of Energias de Portugal....
...The marketing power of drug companies and laissez-faire attitude of doctors has fuelled one of the worst public-health epidemics of modern times, which ended up proving ruinous for De La Rosa and millions...
...This morning’s half-year results mark the onset of phase two of the plan, according to the FTSE 250 company....
...Half of the French population is eating at that time, according to a 2010 study by the sociologist Thibaut de Saint Pol....
...One company that should be considering a radical change to its corporate shape is Allianz. The German insurance group has done very nicely out of its 2000 purchase of bond fund manager Pimco....
...“Local investors, especially insurance companies, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, are increasingly participating in new issues,” he says....
...Only minutes earlier Standard & Poor’s, the rating agency, had declared Argentina in “selective default”....
...Other directors, meanwhile, were anxious of falling foul of rules such as the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation Fair Disclosure which bans the selective release of information....
...HSBC has agreed to sell its general insurance businesses in Asia and Latin America in a split deal between Axa of France and QBE of Australia for a combined upfront payment of $914m plus future profit-share...
...The group is as diverse as they come: we start with an American who used to work for a major insurance company, a Bulgarian who was the head of a recycling company and is a major environmentalist, a New...
...A group of banks and investors in the credit derivatives market will meet on Thursday to determine whether Greece’s planned debt swap deal should trigger payments on its default insurance....
...Jeff Kaplan, global head of M&A at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said he was not anticipating a big uptick next year, but a steady resumption of activity across sectors and regions....
...to individual institutions; limits bank holding companies to de minimis investments in proprietary trading activities such as hedge funds and private equity; provides for central clearing of standardised...
...David Collinson, head of origination at de-risking company Pension Corporation, looks after a pension fund that has always largely invested in fixed income....
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