Hints and tips:
...Mayhem persists among the US’s property and casualty insurers. Auto-insurance businesses are still losing money....
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...“The Russians’ strategy is to show it is much more resilient to casualties than Ukraine,” said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Centre for Defence Reforms, a think-tank in Kyiv....
...Rowan bought upscale restaurants in the Hamptons. Harris collected sports teams....
...She was an adviser to the UK Government’s Hampton-Alexander review that aimed to increase the number of women in senior positions in FTSE 350 companies, and became chair of the 30% Club in 2015....
...As always, reach out to us at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com with thoughts and topics....
...With his own work off limits in China and recently censored in Hong Kong, Ai is coruscating about western museums such as the Pompidou, Tate and the V&A that have been paid millions by state-owned companies...
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Over coffee at Wild Beets, Rupert Baird-Murray, one of northern Ibiza’s newer British contingent and a partner at boutique estate agent Domus Nova, helps me out....
...I am a fan of many of the company’s wall lights, but I am particularly enjoying the Hand Sconce V. 2, which features an opal glass shade that would provide a lovely, glowing light....
...According to real estate services and investment company CBRE, prime rents for apartments in Amsterdam fell by 3.3 per cent in the year leading up to the fourth quarter of 2020....
...The companies declined to comment....
...There are other clues that Compass does not see that elusive V-shaped recovery....
...Stanley Druckenmiller, a former hedge fund manager, said that “the excitement of reopening is allowing a lot of these companies that have been casualties of Covid to come back and come back in force”....
...Speaking at the FT’s Global Boardroom event, he said: “I am not convinced that we are going to have a V-shaped recovery. I think it will be more like a U.”...
...This reflects the strong performance of large tech and healthcare companies of late that happen to dominate the benchmark....
...According to data from CB Insights and Willis Towers Watson, between 2012 and the first quarter of 2019, there were 627 deals involving investment in property and casualty insurtech companies....
..., the 73-year-old retailer whose fashion-forward take on prep captured the American style zeitgeist in the mid-2000s, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Virginia, becoming the first significant fashion casualty...
...If anything, they’ll be spending more on digital, now there are more casualties on the print side,” says Lau....
...All of this follows Konstantin Strukov’s Uzhuralzoloto Group of Companies buying into POG in February....
...Exane likes Sampo and Lancashire as the most defensive of the property and casualty insurers....
...FADE OUT Meanwhile, the hunt for asset management casualties from the sharpest markets selloff in living memory remains an oddly low-key exercise....
...EU parties and the parliament have lobbied Facebook to exempt them from the rules — but the company is holding firm....
...Last year was not only the US banking sector’s first casualty-free year since 2006 but profits across America’s banks rose 44 per cent in 2018. (FT) Eurostar no-deal chaos predicted Chaos....
...(FT) US casualties in Syria US soldiers have been killed by an explosion in Syria while carrying out a “routine patrol”, according to the anti-Isis military coalition in the region....
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