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...“Their names and faces are unknown to most of the press and the public. Berkshire’s line-up of managers, however, is to P/C insurance what Cooperstown’s honorees are to baseball.”...
...Recall that the authors of the recent paper arguing that private credit investors do not receive any return in excess of risk — Isil Erel, Thomas Flanagan and Michael Weisbach — agree that this form of economic...
...The chain was successful in raising about £10mn from this group, with some of the proceeds used to cover the cost of buying out Ahsan, people familiar with the matter told the FT’s Oliver Barnes and Daniel...
...Sibtein Alibhai, the face of IRH for various stakeholders, is global head of strategy, according to people familiar with the matter....
...the matter....
...EDF has warned that it is now “urgent” for the UK government to decide on the future of the £20bn Sizewell C nuclear power station, including whether China’s CGN should remain involved in the project....
...That deal envisaged that CGN would become a 20 per cent partner in the development of the planned Sizewell C plant on the Suffolk coast, with an option to participate in its construction....
...survey of moths in Indonesia triggered a surreal string of personal disasters; of Thomas Wardle, whose Midlands factory-hands worked out how to bleach and print on tasar silk, triggering a boom in India...
...All of this matters because of the prevalence of family ownership....
...Clarence Thomas details trips paid for by billionaire (FT)...
...cinemas.* His protest was cheered on by many actors and fellow directors, but some in the C-suite at the time saw him as unwilling to accept the inevitable changes rippling across the industry....
...A throw-away line in an otherwise typically wildly inaccurate press piece, resulted in a share price spike and an obligation to make an announcement, culminating in a c. 45% increase in the share price on...
...With only a single bar and a handful of chairs, The C&G has the feel of a private living room....
...Fresh off the resignation of the company’s chief risk officer Thomas Grosse this week — the third senior executive to depart in less than a year — an internal memo has surfaced from last year in which N26...
...In a statement, the government insisted any extensions to the life of nuclear stations was “entirely a matter for the operator and the independent regulator based on safety considerations”....
...Short term: cut in interest rates. Thomas Pugh: Significant reform of the planning system....
...So far one new nuclear plant — the 3.2GW Hinkley Point C in Somerset — is under construction, even though the Labour government in 2006 set out plans for a new generation of reactors....
...Elon Musk’s Tesla is named after Nikola Tesla, an employee of Thomas Edison who became a rival inventor and was on the other side in the “war of the currents” that culminated in the General Electric merger...
...S&P lowered its rating of the company, which has $88m in coupon payments due by Friday, to triple C minus, saying it “may not be able to service its debt in time” and pointing to a potential debt restructuring...
...Fantasia was last week downgraded to triple C by S&P, which noted “heightened execution risk on repayment” in relation to the bond due on Monday....
...“At the end of the day, incentives matter, taxes matter, cost of living matters,” Solomon told the FT Global Banking Summit, after the pandemic prompted some residents to move to lower-tax states such as...
...A snarling Tom Cruise turns up in the middle of the cast list; the lead is C Thomas Howell, playing kind-hearted Ponyboy Curtis.On page and screen, the dominant school of Young Adult fiction has long since...
...— is available throughout the year, no matter the weather....
...In 2017, Yale decided to change the name of Calhoun college [named after John C Calhoun, a US statesman and defender of slavery] to Grace Murray Hopper, a computer scientist....
...Those are questions worth asking well beyond the supermarkets’ C-suites. helen.thomas@ft.com@helentbiz...
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