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...AXA Millésimes, the insurance company’s wine division, is far lower-key than Bernard Arnault’s vast LVMH empire, but has its own investment in Outpost on Howell Mountain, east of the valley....
...“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....
...through which about half of all Americans’ health insurance claims pass each year”....
...Petrol stations were running dry and highways began to empty....
...But this month, he changed his mind after receiving a cheque in the post from his insurance company for $2.5m....
...Anglo American, which recommends that boards appoint at least one non-white director to every FTSE 100 company by 2021....
...V&A’s robot-made web London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, has launched a season of exhibitions and events focused on the “unsung role” of engineering in society....
...Another person close to the process says that even his advisers had little sway: “American investment bankers know how to do American M&A, but he [Mr Wu] did it in his own style.”...
...From “activist investors” to investment banks, from management consultants to asset managers, from high-frequency traders to insurance companies, today, financiers dictate terms to American business, rather...
...Chinese companies are set to secure a number of build-operate-transfer contracts for national highways, and the government is seeking Chinese funding for a series of ambitious hydropower projects....
...I asked Ell whether Tesla was as much a tech company as a carmaker....
...(Financial Times) In response to regulation, Goldman ditching less profitable clients and changing rules for hedge funds (WSJ) Argentina v holdouts: plus ça change (Financial Times) Espírito Santo: the...
...The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was levying the maximum available fine – $7,000 per day – on GM for failing to provide answers to a third of the 107 questions it sent the company...
...We all remember the story of the broker who, on hearing that his secretary lives on an estate in Romford, Essex, remarks: “How splendid. Do you keep horses there?”...
...More than 100 positions could go at the Essex-based company, which operates the biggest motor insurance syndicate at the Lloyd’s of London market and insures one in four motorcycles in the UK, two of the...
...The Highways Agency said the A12 was closed in both directions near Chelmsford in Essex while the A19, in the north-east, was closed in two places in both directions....
...An Ivorian who grew up in Morocco, softly spoken but an imposing physical presence at six foot four, he is a trained civil engineer with a passion for insurance....
...The number of Americans who claimed unemployment insurance for the first time leapt 78,000 last week to 439,000....
...Toyota is launching its Entune infotainment system with the new Prius V hybrid car this year....
...V-twin engines....
...., Inc., which was formed in 1950 and focuses on highly specialized insurance lines; far more, we believe, have joined other, larger companies....
...In the months after [Greenberg] left, AIG amped up its bets on the housing market by writing what where, in effect, insurance policies on derivative securities backed by subprime mortgages....
...If growth in developed countries starts to look like a “U”, in emerging markets it already is a “V”....
...But that hasn’t stopped British bikemaker Triumph from aiming squarely at the American biking idyll with its latest cruiser, the Thunderbird....
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