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...PIC chief executive Tracy Blackwell said the pensions crisis sparked by Kwasi Kwarteng’s ill-fated “mini” Budget last year, rather than pausing the bulk annuity market, had “accelerated” it owing to the...
...But he regularly returned to his birthplace and his beloved motifs: the dry, rugged landscape, the fishing village of l’Estaque and the Mont Sainte-Victoire....
...April 4 to 7; further information and tickets here ‘Film Cycle: Deborah Stratman’, Jeu de Paume American artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman tackles notions of power and control, investigating the dynamics...
...March 28 to June 30; further information and tickets here ‘Impressionisti: l’alba della modernità’ (Impressionists: The Dawn of Modernity), Museo della Fanteria In honour of the 150th anniversary of the...
...I have invited the novelist Deborah Levy as I know how much she loves swimming in the sea....
...MAY August Blue by Deborah Levy (Penguin/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Set in Athens, Levy’s new novel explores ideas of selfhood and femininity through a woman who believes she has glimpsed her double....
...Deborah Fuhr, founder of ETFGI, a consultancy, said Finra’s definition could include mutual funds and ETFs investing in everything from high-yield bonds and emerging markets to those based on quantitative...
...Alex Israel contributed the enormous trompe-l’oeil mural depicting birds of paradise plants along the main stair....
...L J Hickman dauntbooks.co.uk The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle “I have such good memories of evenings on book tour there, and of the wonderful people running it.”...
...The irony is that Ms Blackwell would never let PIC buy a life policy from, for example, L&G or Rothesay without itself demanding collateral....
...When in Paris, I live a few minutes from the Musée de l’Orangerie, where there’s a room with huge water lilies all around the walls....
...In Zambia’s South Luangwa and in Zimbabwe, C+L has partnered with Tusk Trust to give clients active placements in handpicked conservation projects – working (really working) alongside leading conservationists...
...The lemon-yellow L-shaped sofa and armchair and the two huge sash windows make it warm, light and optimistic. In the foreground is a chrome-and-glass tubular table and four white plastic chairs....
...R Goodfellow, Surrey Crossword 16,158: John Johnston, New York; Annie Baker, London; Sebastian MacKay, Edinburgh Polymath 1,020: Abizer Nasir, London Crossword 16,152: Roger Clews, London; Vivienne Blackwell...
...Olympic Pride, American Prejudice by Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher (Simon & Schuster RRP£20/Atria RRP$28, February) tells the story of the 18 black American athletes at the 1936 Berlin Olympics...
...Schroders’ big shareholders include BlackRock, L&G, Lindsell Train and Harris Associates. The company also named Deborah Waterhouse, chief executive of Glaxo-controlled ViiV Healthcare, to the board....
...To win over the sceptics, she draws on her background as a marketing executive at cosmetics group L’Oreal to show that she understands how the retail game works....
...Van Zweden and the orchestra sensitively accompanied Daniil Trifonov’s crystalline precision, and the encore, Debussy’s Reflets dans l’eau, was equally lovely....
...(Deborah Caswell, postdoctoral research scientist at the Francis Crick Institute, in the FT) Parliament is facing a pile-up of Brexit legislation “Forty-five per cent of the time available to produce SIs...
...Deborah Woolf, deborahwoolf.com. Lisson Gallery, 67 Lisson St, NW1 (lissongallery.com)....
...Handmade in sterling silver, this smooth design by Charleston-based Ben Silver is a dignified alternative to the novelty glasses holders that we dread receiving as a gift. bensilver.com Magnifying Glass by L’...
...Nigel Wilson L&G The UK is a knowledge based, mainly service led economy....
...Nigel Wilson L&G The chancellor has stepped up. This is a positive Budget that is designed to deliver economic growth, productivity improvements and real wage increases....
...Or could it be that its chairman, Lord Norman Blackwell, simply doesn’t believe in the cause?...
...Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£12.99 In a hot, dry, underemployed Spain, 25-year-old Sofia arrives with her mother Rose to find a cure for the latter’s obscure and obsessive ailments....
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