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...Lawsuits targeted HomeServices in particular because of Berkshire’s financial resources including $167.6bn in cash, far more than independent brokers....
...Investors can also concentrate their portfolios in one place and offset their positions at the clearing house, saving them having to deploy millions of dollars a day in collateral, the insurance required...
...“There’s definitely a blame game going on and we’ll see more of it,” said Ian Katz, financial policy analyst at independent research firm Capital Alpha Partners....
...We have Andrew Montlake, managing director of mortgage broker Coreco, and the buying agent Henry Pryor. Thank you. So let’s get down to it. What next for UK house prices?...
...The Association of Financial Mutuals, a trade body, called on the board to respond to the “strong dissent” of members by taking a different path, either remaining independent or merging with another mutual...
...“Even when it’s raining it’s beautiful here, it’s such a calming place,” says Natalie, who used to work in oil and gas insurance, of the tiny village of Cley next the Sea....
...Gemma Antrobus, chair of the specialist travel agents group at the UK’s Association of Independent Tour Operators....
...Duncan Minty, an independent consultant on ethics in insurance, says insurers are “very opaque in relation to what they’re actually really doing with technology”....
...The screws will be applied through the increase in national insurance and dividend taxes announced this year, combined with the silent effects of leaving tax thresholds unchanged in the face of inflation...
...Ballymore said it undertook an “independent third party review and re-tender of the freeholder’s insurance broker” last year, which showed that leaseholders “were obtaining value for money, comprehensive...
...broker, in its internal review; Conservative MPs have thwarted calls for an investigation into the collapse of Greensill, which could have left the former UK prime minister David Cameron facing difficult...
...As one of the activists put it — when is there ever a bad time to vote for an independent investigation?...
...Uber has previously argued that the lower courts have misunderstood the nature of the relationship — where it acts as “agent” between driver and passenger — even though this type of business model has been...
...Word would have it that Numis, the independent investment bank and broker with more than a little skin in the game, was among several City groups that complained to the FCA....
...So self-employed insurance brokers, travel agents, graphic designers, hairdressers and manicurists (!)...
...from an independent adviser....
...The rapid greying of the Japanese population is challenging the basic premise that economic agents, such as consumers, investors and business owners, are capable of exercising independent judgment....
...The carnival season “is when most of the out-of-town money is here”, says Patrick Knudson, broker at Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty. “That’s selling season.”...
...These fees can be 10 per cent of the original loan. Brokers, financial advisers and independent legal advice are key to ensuring that homeowners understand the pros and cons of equity release....
...But it can also lead to rapid drops in the share prices of companies if brokers who lend the money liquidate the collateral, and is widely viewed as an agent for volatility in the market....
...He added that the investment was part of Sun Life’s “digital transformation strategy”, but said he still believed in the “old fashioned” advisory model, with insurance agents and brokers....
...The defendants were also accused of conspiring to mislead and defraud health insurance providers who were reluctant to pay for the drug when prescribed to patients without cancer....
...Roula Khalaf delves into the battle faced by the independent Arab media in the light of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents....
...The French hotelier is also putting its stamp on management of the group, which has been run as an independent entity since the takeover....
...The US Department of Justice has wrung a $150m settlement from Deloitte, the world’s biggest professional services firm, over its alleged failure to detect a long-running fraud at a former mortgage broker...
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