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...But these dresses, individually splendid, neither cohere into their own stage world, nor belong in Balanchine’s modest girls-next-door vision of New York romance....
...The presenters naturally have to find a resident with a stubborn adherence to some completely idiotic item, and Kay obligingly steps up with her insistence on buying multipacks of six individually wrapped...
...High street angst John Kay argues that higher business rates are too easy a target for UK retailers bemoaning the state of their businesses....
...For this reason, adding an investment to your portfolio that looks individually risky could actually reduce the risk attached to your portfolio as a whole....
...The lowest risk portfolio is likely to be one that consists of a diversified collection of individually risky investments....
...Barings Bank went bust in 1890 when it was a partnership; rescued by the Bank of England, it continued as an institution, but the partners “were pretty much ruined individually”....
...there is another, little-known link: they were all once girl scouts, as were a string of other female American politicians, such as Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Comstock, Carolyn Maloney, Patty Murray and Kay...
...by John Kay, Profile Books, RRP £16.99...
...So what does its chief executive Susan Kay-Williams think is driving the trend this time around?...
...To assemble a car from individually purchased spare parts would cost many times the price of the complete vehicle. Modern life involves complex and multidimensional products....
...Nor should we abandon models designed to provide robust probabilistic forecasts in unstable environments, either utilising the models individually or in combination with others....
...Buying drinks in rounds rather than individually was a means of reducing transaction costs....
...This further test should be applied to each bank individually, and for the group of systemically important banks as a whole....
...Both customers and financial stability will be better served by a larger number of institutions, individually specialised and more diverse in their business models....
...John Kay: Banking needs more robust stress tests Stress tests should be subject to stress tests, writes the FT columnist....
...Without centralised co-ordination, member states act individually in different ways, he says....
...John Kay’s book “The Long and the Short of It” is available from the FT bookshop www.ft.com/bookshop or 0870 429 5884...
...John Kay’s new book, The Long and the Short of It, is published on January 20 johnkay@johnkay.com Post and read comments at www.ft.com/kay...
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...If different risks are inversely related – an umbrella shop makes money if it rains and an ice-cream stand makes money if it shines – then individually risky assets can be combined to create a portfolio...
...Case study: Kay George, graduate recruit, marketing Kay George started just a few weeks ago as one among 10 in Heinz’s graduate recruitment programme but she is already at work on the Amoy brand....
...Householders make independent decisions to pick up the phone, and individually unpredictable decisions become predictable in aggregate....
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