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...XTX, one of the world’s biggest proprietary trading and market-making groups, had sought to use Aviva Investors’ and L&G Investment Management’s money-market funds to invest some of its own cash....
...LVMH-owned Sephora recently released a blockbuster set of annual results and said it had the potential to reach €20bn in sales, while L’Oréal reported a 7.6 per cent rise in sales last year to more than...
...The deal is the latest in a string of mooted transactions in the beauty sector after private equity-owned German beauty retailer Douglas announced earlier this month plans to list in Frankfurt....
...Having started life as a joint venture between Nestlé and L’Oréal, Galderma was acquired by a consortium led by Swedish private equity group EQT in a $10bn deal in 2019....
...The show pays homage to “De Profundis”, the weird and wonderful 50,000-word letter the Irish poet and playwright wrote to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while imprisoned in Reading Gaol for “acts of gross...
...Part of me is sympathetic to the Douglas Adams quote: is the garden not beautiful enough that you must believe there are fairies at the end of it?...
...President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pushed for the creation of the SEC; Joseph Kennedy, the buccaneering Irish-American businessman, served as its first chair; William O Douglas, a feisty progressive lawyer...
...Others are met with restrictions on investing in ETFs and funds with Irish or Luxembourg ISINs, which constitute the majority of investment options in the UK, as well as EU shares....
...“The prince had his passion, but he ran it like a business,” explains Douglas Erskine Crum, Juddmonte CEO and former chief executive of Ascot racecourse....
...In 2022, McKillen was awarded L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government for his contribution to the country’s culture....
...stephen.bush@ft.com Letter in response to this column: UK success is not because it’s become multicultural / From Michael Winckless, Bangkok, Thailand...
...Hair, Blake Henderson at CLM using L’Oréal. Make-up, Rebecca Wordingham at Bryant using Surratt and Augustinus Bader. Set design, Phoebe Shakespeare. Photographer’s assistant, Dan Douglas....
...I built one for us as a project during lockdown, using Harvia for the stove and technical elements, and made a small Douglas fir cabin.”...
...Website; Directions— Tim Auld L’Atelier Robuchon 6 Clarges Street, London W1J 8AE A particular joy in Paris is to sit at the counter of L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, watching in...
...In Paris’s three-star L’Astrance a few years ago, I saw an immaculately attired old boy lunching alone, napkin hanging from his neck by a chain, merrily drinking his way through a bottle of Domaine de la...
...Versions of L’Orfeo from the Barcelona and Zurich opera houses. A discussion of how close China came to industrialising in the Song dynasty....
...In the audience was a French music impresario, Valérie Malot, who whisked both men into a recording studio with the Irish-French producer Doctor L (Liam Farrell on his days off)....
...Mughal artist Abu’l Hasan produced this masterpiece 400 years ago. It shows an unarmed hunter climbing towards quarry poised for acrobatic escape....
...Economically, absorbing the North for the Republic will be like West Germany absorbing the German Democratic Republic.” — Douglas Hayward...
...It was crowned with gilded cherubs and garden urns, and adding to the romance was its provenance, having been acquired by Douglas Hogg, former Lord Chancellor, in the first half of the 20th century, and...
...Missing Person, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills (Allen Lane)An Irish family memoir of unmarried motherhood through the generations explores the secrets families keep and the violence carried out...
...In a separate case, France’s data protection authority, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique (CNIL), on Wednesday fined Apple €8mn, citing data protection breaches in how the company tailors advertisements...
...Stephen Carson, partner in the asset management and investment funds group at A&L Goodbody, said the CBI had “expressed a desire to engage with market participants and to review the requirement”....
...Advertising taught him about writing, he told the Irish audience, including how “to write like a job. I sit down in the morning, and I do it.”...
...Plus, a classic Provençal mas in towns and villages like Ménerbes, St-Rémy, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Gordes (where Knight Frank is selling a seven-bedroom house for €2.35mn) and, of course, Cézanne’s native...
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