Hints and tips:
...Chinese capital is flooding into Singapore, pushing up property prices and swelling the deposit bases of banks such as Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation....
...“As long as vaccination is required, you’re going to need some level of sequencing,” says Peacock....
...Some of the UK’s biggest listed life insurance companies, including Legal & General, Aviva and Phoenix, are active in the market as are private competitors such as Pension Insurance Corporation and Rothesay...
...The platform is beautiful, its walls covered in teal and peacock-blue tiles, the glass columns and ceiling evoking the Milky Way....
...A recent £300m arrangement between Siemens and Pension Insurance Corporation is another....
...Meanwhile, Thatcher had a private meeting with one of the Tories’ few allies within the corporation: Ian McIntyre, controller of BBC Radio 3....
...(it was feared) to dismembering the Corporation....
...Big cuts in corporation tax – the headline rate will fall to 20 per cent in election year – has helped to seal their loyalty....
...Mr Truell, a private equity entrepreneur and former chief and founder of pension fund buyout house Pension Insurance Corporation, estimated that if such a scheme were rolled out across all the UK’s local...
...In reputational terms, last week was not good for private equity. In the UK, Peacocks, a 120-year old clothing retailer bought out in 2006, succumbed to its weight of debt....
...Since obtaining his MBA from Manchester Business School, he has worked as finance director for Grand Metropolitan and Sears, making his name with buy-outs such as Homebase, Odeon Cinemas, and Peacock....
...Harriet Arbuthnot, who commissioned it, noted that “it has all the softness and sweetness of countenance which characterises him when he is in the private society of his friends”....
...The End of the Free Market: Who Wins The War Between States and Corporations?...
...Stiles’s superbly written book argues that the main legacy of the “robber baron” and “railroad king” was the giant but invisible corporation, so big that it was able to crush its competitors....
...For example, Newcastle-headquartered Peacocks Medical Group, an orthotics specialist now building a presence in the Chinese market, was founded in 1903....
...By this summer, FTSE 100 schemes were registering a slight surplus for the first time, according to the annual survey by Lane, Clark and Peacock, the actuaries....
...Lamb was joined in 1819 by the gothic novelist Thomas Love Peacock and utilitarian theorist James Mill....
...Trader talk has been that Peacock was being lined up for a private equity-led management buy-out, although the discount retailer Matalan, up 0.8 per cent to 234.75p, was mentioned as a potential outsider...
...The retailer Peacock Group slipped 3 per cent to 247p after it announced second quarter trading figures....
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