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...SK-II was one of several Japanese beauty products to suffer consumer boycotts in China after the Japanese government released nuclear contaminated water to the Pacific Ocean last year....
...The company’s Solvency II coverage ratio, the amount of regulatory capital it holds as a percentage of the minimum required, sat at 224 per cent at the end of the year, above consensus estimates of 217 per...
...Design Matters Grade II-listed 9 Millbank, minutes from London’s Houses of Parliament, has transformed the former HQ of Imperial Chemical Industries into a collection of grand apartments....
...Procter & Gamble’s Japanese prestige beauty brand SK-II is among the labels most heavily targeted by the boycott. P&G were contacted for comment....
...“In the US, the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (the ‘G.I. Bill’) upskilled millions of World War II veterans to address postwar labour needs....
...That exemption is subject to the following conditions: (1) the issuer of the relevant debt securities (e.g. CS’s bail-in-bonds) and the new equity securities (e.g....
...This disc looks to the high watermark of the genre, the coronation of George II in 1727....
...The UK is aiming to change rules inherited from the EU, including the Solvency II capital requirements for insurers, with the intention of unlocking capital for investment in infrastructure and life sciences...
...The Düsseldorf-based contractor said on Monday that the first test models of the Caracal — a vehicle that is light enough to be airlifted and uses the chassis of a Mercedes-Benz G-class four-wheel drive...
...step for Cat Earp to leave her job at Gucci and her home in London to move into her husband’s family farmhouse in Devon, miles from a train station, and accessible only with stout boots rather than double G-branded...
...Bridgewater offers different flavours of its strategy and we don’t know how much of its estimated $150bn of assets under management are in Pure Alpha, the more leveraged Pure Alpha II, its risk parity funds...
...“F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E” and “Sorted for E’s & Wizz” were ticked off like rites of passage from someone moving from Sheffield outsider to Britpop in-crowd....
...Europe also boasts the Amundi MSCI India II Ucits ETF, which tracks the same index as the iShares ETF, and the L&G India INR Government Bond Ucits ETF, for those interested in fixed income....
...The asparagus velouté is hot, frothy goodness in a dainty espresso cup, followed by citrus-cured Cornish monkfish with ginger, shallots, samphire and fennel – bright and herby, like a G&T with hints of pickled...
...So no-one was there to point out that this (r-g) thing misses the state’s biggest contractual financial liabilities....
...L&G boss Nigel Wilson has been lobbying for an overhaul of the Solvency II rules that would unlock capital to invest in levelling-up projects, infrastructure and green assets....
...The insurer also welcomed the Solvency II reform in Thursday’s Autumn Statement....
...L&G took on £4.4bn in new bulk annuity premiums in the first six months of the year, including its largest ever US transaction, compared with £3.1bn in the first half of last year....
...London’s Museum of Childhood was born in 1974, within a Grade II-listed building from 1872....
...After the customary cappuccino or G&T mixed with local Bucks Brothers Gin, and some time exploring the warren of rooms, clients start to feel very much at home in the Souster & Hicks kingdom....
...Meanwhile, M&G is tipped to benefit from Solvency II reforms. Its shares have outperformed peers by nearly 40 per cent this year....
...Rising interest rates helped to lift L&G’s Solvency II ratio — its level of capital as a proportion of the regulatory requirement — from 187 per cent at the year end to 212 per cent, but this was below the...
...L&G wants a change to the rules to allow investments with highly predictable but not fixed cash flows to be permitted within a key part of the Solvency II framework, and thus benefit from a lighter capital...
...Solvency II has strict requirements to manage and hold capital requirements against liquidity risk to prevent a 1-in-200 year negative liquidity scenario....
...L&G chief executive Sir Nigel Wilson welcomed what he called a “collaborative solution” after months of talks between the government, regulator and industry....
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