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...Pension reform has come under the spotlight as research by Ondra Partners shows holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to...
...Then, the hidden leverage and maturity mismatch in pension funds’ and insurance companies’ portfolios — generally supposed to be long-only — could pose a policy challenge....
...The Philadelphia branch of the Federal Reserve will also release its latest manufacturing business index reading....
...Prosecute fraud, maybe regulate crypto exchanges like casinos, and keep the SEC et al out of it. This is a disagreement about how to cordon off crypto so that when crypto burns, it is controlled....
...There is for sure a debate to be had about when the Federal Reserve et al should have pivoted their stance more forcefully to tackle inflationary pressures, and what they should and shouldn’t do now....
...(FT) Exxon adds two board directors in wake of activist pressure Michael Angelakis, chief executive of investment firm Atairos and a former chairman of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve, and Jeff Ubben,...
...‘The brainchild of my founding partner’ Athene Holding, an insurance company that Apollo built, starting in 2009, to profit from the disruption of the financial crisis, is a monument to that talent....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...“Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not. In Wisconsin, considerable effort was expended to woo Foxconn — a Taiwan-based company which makes, among other things, roughly half of the world’s iPhones....
...After Hillarycare failed, she turned her attention to expanding children’s health insurance. That initiative did pass Congress....
...What exactly do the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve Board say they want big banks to do?...
...They, along with Penn Square, were taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which “resolved” them in liquidation and sale mode....
...“Then he said ‘I’ve saved 15 per cent by switching to Geico’,” jokingly taking a line from a famous television commercial for the car insurance company....
...If you don’t believe us, well, we have charts… First, from the liquidity and flow tracking team of Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou et al at JP Morgan, comes evidence of the greatness of the rotation: Flows into...
...So are we missing something here, or is the Goldman approach tantamount to giving Volcker, Dodd et al the finger? That can’t be Goldman’s intention....
...Marx is singing in his grave there in London as the US government now controls the auto, mortgage, insurance, banking, et al industries and he has not fired a shot....
...But if anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors, and stop insurance company abuses, let me...
...I mean, to be fair, the status quo is working for the insurance industry, but it’s not working for the American people. It’s not working for our federal budget. It needs to change....
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