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...“Although you can control a museum during your lifetime, it becomes very difficult after you’ve gone, and then there are the considerations of insurance, access and conservation.”...
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...When Ned Johnson finally retired in 2016, Fidelity managed $2.1tn directly, and was the third-largest US mutual fund group, behind only Capital Group’s American Funds and Vanguard’s fleet of dirt-cheap index...
...It’s not like I’m buying mutual funds with it.” And he doesn’t share the stories with his family. “What they don’t know won’t hurt them. My wife won’t be reading this.”...
...In Japanese society, caring responsibility has traditionally fallen to families....
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...(FT) George Floyd’s funeral In addition to family, those invited to Tuesday’s private funeral in Houston, Texas, include Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and civil rights leader, the Rev Al Sharpton...
...Meanwhile, Insurance Post reports that insurtech Bought by Many has appointed Jim Sutcliffe, the former CEO of Old Mutual and Prudential UK, as its new chair....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...(FT) Adopting in a pandemic An American family flew to India to adopt their daughter days before one of the world’s strictest lockdowns was imposed in the country of 1.3bn people, doing nothing to ease...
...Chetty et al. (2017) find that there is a 14 years life expectancy gap between top and bottom 1% males in the US, and that this gap has widened since 2001....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...Either Trump is right, and there’s a deep state conspiring to sow fake links between him and the Kremlin, which requires a leap of magical thinking, or else the FBI et al are closing in on their prey....
...Covea, a mutually owned insurance company that owns 8 per cent of Scor, privately made a bid approach last month valuing the target at €8.3bn. The Scor board rejected it....
...Edward Luce is the FT’s chief US columnist and commentator....
...More and more Americans, meanwhile, view FB et al etc as the new Big Tobacco....
...A website for Celvam Management, which Celvam Capital's latest accounts indicate is “under mutual control”, describes the group as a “single-family office, administrating a diversified range of interests...
...(FT) Shake-up for US mutual funds A new entrant in the US mutual fund industry pulled in more money in 2015 than powerhouse brands including Fidelity, BlackRock and American Funds....
...First, the government would guarantee all deposits, charging risk-based insurance premia....
...Andrzej was born in 1978 in Montreal to Polish and American parents. He grew up in Poland, spending most of his summers with his family in Japan....
...C Ian Ormiston has joined Old Mutual Global Investors as a fund manager and will launch a new European Smaller Companies fund in the fourth quarter....
...In “US vs One Michael Jackson Signed Thriller Jacket” and “US v One White Crystal-Covered ‘Bad Tour’ Glove”, contested by the family, it is attempting to recover more than $70m, including Michael Jackson...
...He was recently commissioned by Royal Doulton to produce a set of plates for the company....
...Icann is now introducing more than 1,000 new “generic top-level domains” – the last bits in an internet address – to go along with the familiar ones (.com, .edu, et al, and country endings such as .co.uk...
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