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...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...“But crime is an American problem, not exclusive to Chicago,” says DeAngelis....
...The insurance company carries little debt, and a lot of excess capital....
...The Treasury issued orders on Wednesday requiring US title insurance companies in Miami and Manhattan to identify the “natural persons” behind shell companies used to buy high-end real estate in many all-cash...
...LLC....
...Meanwhile, the group diversified into shipping, banking, insurance and publishing; today it has 26,000 employees, some 400 companies and annual sales of €11bn....
...While Mr Coulter shares the co-founder title, Mr Bonderman has been the dominant personality at the firm....
...All That Is, by James Salter, Picador, RRP£18.99, 304 pages The celebrated American writer James Salter is now 88, and his first new novel in more than 30 years is a big event....
...Nationstar also originates mortgages, as well as providing services for delinquent loans, managing loans in foreclosure, title insurance, loan settlement and valuation services....
..., by Alison Bechdel, Jonathan Cape, RRP£16.99 Bechdel is an American graphic novelist whose first book, Fun Home (2006), took on the author’s relationship with her father, a closeted gay man who committed...
...The economic fall-out of the financial crisis caused global havoc but emerging markets were first in and first out....
...So if you don’t need money; if you own an office building and you have no debt and you want to borrow 40 per cent of today’s value there’s some insurance companies that will make that capital available....
...“I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
...Sprout By Dale Peck Bloomsbury, £6.99 Growing up gay in the American Midwest is hard enough, but the title character of Dale Peck’s semi-autobiographical novel doesn’t make life any easier for himself by...
...The first-round performance of the US team, meanwhile, remained largely an afterthought for most Americans. With the US already ejected, it’s just as well the marketing has had an Hispanic focus....
...In 2000, an epic and largely unremarked threshold was crossed: that was the first year the majority of Americans lived in the suburbs....
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