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...“Not a single one of the clients who are in these funds would pay these rates for any other type of insurance, certainly not term [life] insurance,” she points out....
...A multinational consumer company such as Unilever currently has very little real-time insight into how their products sell at small storefronts in India, for example....
..., consumer products and natural resources....
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...(New York Times) Cisco Systems’ quarterly sales and profit forecasts exceeded analysts’ estimates, an early sign that the company is overhauling its product line fast enough to stay ahead of shifts in the...
...Coverage has been substantially expanded, while costs have now moved into line with gross domestic product growth, resulting in large savings to Medicare and private health insurance....
...We also need the tech companies to acknowledge the disruption they cause and do far more to benefit all aspects of our lives. john.thornhill@ft.com...
...(FastFT) Despite the UK’s economic recovery, productivity growth is “still abysmal”, real wages are running below the rate of inflation, and gross domestic product per head is unlikely to return to pre-crisis...
...Top shareholdings: Resolute Forest Products; Dex Media; Cooper Tire & Rubber Company; IBM; Merck & Co; New York Times. Portfolio Value: $2.5bn....
...Petsmart, provider of products and services for pets, also beat profits and revenue estimates on strong sales and operating efficiencies. The company also raised its full-year outlook....
...that extend its products to geographies where electronic payments are limited today, such as Rwanda....
...If growth in developed countries starts to look like a “U”, in emerging markets it already is a “V”....
...See XLCA v Merrill, above....
...and hardware products, and training and assimilation.; Sapiens International Corporation N.V....
...The writer is chairman and chief executive officer of C.V. Starr....
...In the view of several present and former AIG executives, Mr Sullivan was a brilliant insurance man but the group had become much more than an insurance company and he lacked a deep understanding of the...
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
...Home Depot, the home improvement retailer that sponsors the US national football team, is also backing Univision’s match coverage, along with McNeil’s Tylenol and Allstate Insurance....
...Agriculture still accounts for about 20 per cent of Indian gross domestic product and employs nearly two-thirds of the working population....
...Revisionist history Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the recently ousted chairman of AIG, the world’s largest insurance company, has always been a tough businessman, but even he might have felt a bit hurt if he...
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