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...Speaking in Bermuda on Thursday at the PwC Insurance Summit, held in association with the Financial Times, Aon president Eric Andersen said the insurance industry needed to be “more aggressive” in absorbing...
...“It’s not at all a normal Tour de France, because we’re in the middle of a pandemic,” said Laurent-Eric Le Lay, director of sport at France Télévisions, which as every year will provide live worldwide coverage...
...This week, the world’s richest football club sacked head coach Quique Setién and sporting director Eric Abidal. President Josep Maria Bartomeu is resisting calls to resign....
...Ropes & Gray has added Egan Cammack and Laura Hirst to the law firm’s asset management practice in Boston. Cammack was previously at Convexity Capital Management while Hirst joins from Sidley Austin....
...Laurent-Eric Le Lay, director of sport at France Télévisions, has welcomed record viewing figures that peaked at 7m last Saturday. “In previous years it was always Sky that won,” he says....
...Insurer RSA has hired Charlotte Jones as its chief financial officer to replace Scott Egan. Jones previously held the same role at Jupiter Fund Management....
...Eric Clapton 8. George Clooney 9. Lady Gaga, who denied all knowledge of the routine 10. Wuthering Heights 11. Julian Assange 12. Tracey Emin 13....
...A Visit from the Goon Squad , by Jennifer Egan, Corsair, RRP£11.99 Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Egan’s shape-shifting novel comprises a sequence of loosely connected stories that defy...
...Council leaders in 12 cities will become “shadow mayors” when Eric Pickles’ localism bill becomes law, probably next summer, ahead of referendums in 2012....
...A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan, Corsair, RRP£14.99, 336 pages Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Egan’s shape-shifting novel comprises a sequence of loosely connected stories...
...Egan Jones, another niche player, has been hailed for its consistently critical stance on the major bond insurers....
...Egan-Jones analyst Sean Egan mooted $200bn. Certainly headline grabbing....
...As Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism points out: This posture conveniently ignores that rating agency Egan Jones and several Wall Street analysts have posted even more dire loss forecasts than Ackman....
...Smith notes that new rating agency Egan Jones says the industry needs $200bn in additional capital to survive....
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