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...Khosrowshahi, 51, has been in charge of Uber since 2017. He took over when the company was falling apart thanks to a poisonous culture left behind by its co-founder, Travis Kalanick....
...In commercial lines, the groups with the largest market share in the state are: First Insurance Co. of Hawaii, American International Group, Inc., Allianz Global Risks US Insurance Co., DB Insurance Co....
...Tech companies such as Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba have invested enthusiastically in insurance ventures....
...Scripps: Allen & Co, JPMorgan and Weil Gotshal....
...Companies that began life outside China are signalling that beefing up their profile in the country, even given the expense and the wait, is worth it....
...According to CB Insights, between 2010 and 2015 just 13 per cent of investments were in insurance technology companies....
...Bill Gates on Desert Island Discs The former Microsoft chief chose songs that reminded him of meeting wife Melinda and being teased by co-founder Paul Allen....
...A top 10 investor in Allianz told the Financial Times this week: “Pimco is at the moment the weak spot in the Allianz story, but Allianz [with its three main branches of insurance, asset management and property...
...Egg-freezing is just another form of technology,” Ms Stewart-Allen adds....
...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....
...The company, which operates 839 hotels with 84,000 rooms in North America, said it would work to reduce its outstanding debt in the current quarter, which totalled $2.1bn....
...closely allied fund buying a 20 per cent stake in a Chinese internet TV company Wasu Media Holding Co for more than $1bn on Tuesday....
...growth. http://on.ft.com/RFLmwG Japan insurers shortlisted for Indonesia Panin Life stake Japan’s Dai-ichi Life Insurance and Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance are among the companies shortlisted to buy a minority...
...– notably Samsung Life Insurance, which owns 7.5 per cent of the company....
...Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, by DT Max, Granta, RRP£20 The first biography of the author of Infinite Jest (1996), who committed suicide in 2008, follows Wallace from...
...Johanna Waterous Johanna Waterous is Canadian and one of three women in the photograph who originally hail from North America....
...of Alico, its foreign life insurance business, to MetLife....
...Emphasis ours: There have been a number of recent reports about an exodus of employees from A.I.G., and the role of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc....
...The greatest corporate victims of the Great Recession were developed-market icons like AIG, Citigroup and GM rather than China Life, Itau-Unibanco, or Hyundai Motors....
...The problem of resuscitating AOL now belongs to another capable executive: Tim Armstrong, the former north America advertising chief of Google....
...The lucrative share sales followed those of Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS, who each bolted from Bank of China, while Bank of America amassed $10bn this year by selling chunks of its shareholding in China...
...“This is a typical example of a Sino-US joint venture company.”...
...ManuLife Financial, one of North America’s biggest insurance groups, and Allianz of Germany have also requested information....
...However, asked at a press conference about China Life’s interest in AIA, Li Kemu, vice-chairman of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission, said: “They are currently still in talks and we are paying close...
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