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...This season, menswear has embraced the gimlet-tinged mood of Cecil Beaton’s diaries, the roman à clefs of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford, and the posturing of their 1920s peers....
...Jason Hollands, managing director of corporate affairs at wealth manager Evelyn Partners, says: “You need the best people to step up and take over....
...David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C, said borrowers on tracker deals are likely to be reviewing their positions....
...This glittering set has inspired the fashion world for decades – designers seem incapable of quitting the works of Evelyn Waugh....
...The sport of defining a dwindling and then enfeebled aristocracy (in postwar Labour Britain) was also seized on by John Betjeman and Evelyn Waugh. The whole debate is extremely silly....
...David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C, said: “I don’t think we’re out of the woods in terms of the movement in fixed rates at the moment.”...
...And if no shortage of media has presented daughters as problems for their fathers to solve — from George C Scott and Liam Neeson trying to claim back their daughters from nefarious forces in Hardcore (1979...
...the L&G Future World ESG Developed Index or, as a more conservative option, the BNY Mellon Sustainable Real Return fund, which avoids companies incompatible with the aim of limiting global warming to 2°C....
...And during the heyday of the “C” Cisco company that makes like routers and what have you, a lot of people by mistake ended up investing in huge cans of tomato sauce, which is hilarious....
...“There are no equivalent 100 per cent mortgages in the standard market,” says David Hollingworth of UK mortgage broker L&C....
...But Kirk argued that equity flows have, at best, only modest impacts on companies and are unlikely to change C-suite behaviour....
...Welchisms A new book arguing that former General Electric chief executive Jack Welch is responsible for destroying capitalism is drawing mixed reviews....
...Welch turned it into a conglomerate and told his management story instead....
...Hitchens read Evelyn Waugh and (one of his last reviews) GK Chesterton more closely and sensitively than most of the fatheads who happened to share their politics....
...There’s something of the hyper-efficient headmistress about Evelyn Glennie....
...Buffett’s right-hand man, Charlie Munger, described the Chinese businessman as a mix between Thomas Edison and former General Electric chair Jack Welch....
...This included Lucy Kemp-Welch, a Royal Academician and renowned painter of horses who encouraged Agar’s abilities and first planted the idea of becoming a professional artist....
...At the same time, he divided staff into “A, B and C players”, ranked on a “vitality curve”, with the Cs in the bottom 10 per cent ruthlessly ditched....
...Already, estimates for the annual security tab range from C$1.7m to C$10m ($1.3m-$7.7m)....
...Its September flying restart scenario suggested a cash low point of £290m pre-£300m CCFF drawn down and £98m Fowler Welch proceeds....
...I tried sending my sunrises to a) my elderly dad in Detroit b) a friend in Berlin and c) an old boyfriend living in Italy....
...In the A-to-C sections alone, there were three political memoirs to every one book from a Michael Bloomberg, Richard Branson or John Browne. I realise this is not a scientific study....
...Down the coast from Bexhill, the exquisite Sandcastle in Pevensey Bay by C Evelyn Simmons is built in a similar language....
...Last week I asked you to cut the "C-suite" down to size, by recommending two "chiefs", other than the CEO and CFO, who should be part of the executive group....
...The sketch of Jack Welch, Mr Immelt’s revered predecessor, is equally well-observed. “With Jack, there was no distinction between ‘I am this company’ and ‘I lead this company’,” Ms Comstock writes....
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