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...The EPC rating system works on a scale from A to G, with A the most efficient....
...According to Isaac Stone Fish’s America Second (Scribe, £16.99/Knopf, $29), Musk would just be the most recent example of a powerful American who allows money to cloud his judgment of China....
...State of Mind”), Jay-Z (“D’Evils”), Big L (“The Enemy”) and The Notorious B.I.G. (“Kick in the Door”), he has made a habit of producing their best songs....
...It’s every bit as enchanting as Isaac Bashevis Singer found it some 70 years ago....
...“[Many companies] have pulled levers to ensure they have relatively decent liquidity in the short to medium term,” said Stefan Isaacs, head of wholesale fixed income at M&G Investments....
...: Bill Stewart, Leicester; Gareth Christopher, Switzerland; Duncan Mackenzie, Norfolk Polymath 1,017: Antony McCammon, Switzerland Crossword 16,135: Neil McIndoe, London; Julian Cooke, London; Ashley Witts...
...They war principally over which of them will win the Howard Roark Award for visionary civic planning and which the Edward G....
...Matches created by chef Isaac McHale and drinksman Rob Simpson include sardine sashimi with white peony tea; pork and hispi cabbage with a smoky lapsang souchong; and a dessert of strawberries and meadowsweet...
...Stefan Isaacs deputy head of wholesale fixed income at M&G Investments Is there a bubble in the bond market? Government bond valuations are stretched across developed economies....
...The UK’s Compass Group has hired Kingfisher’s Karen Witts as its chief financial officer. She will succeed Johnny Thomson....
...(Reuters) P&G proxy battle In the culmination of a long-running proxy fight, Procter & Gamble shareholders vote on whether to allow activist investor Nelson Peltz on to the board....
...Its chief financial officer, Karen Witts, stresses that finding the best person for the job regardless of gender is always the priority....
...Similar “all in one” products are available from BlackRock (look for its Consensus range), plus L&G offers Multi-Index funds, and Standard Life has a range called MyFolio....
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...Stefan Isaacs, deputy head of retail fixed income at M&G, highlighted high street retailers who are likely facing higher import costs and customers who feel poorer in the future after the uncertainty generated...
...“You really have no idea what would happen on the day,” Gareth Isaac, a fund manager at Schroders, says of the reaction in the UK government bond market to Britain’s looming vote on European Union membership...
..., deputy head of retail fixed income at M&G Investments....
...Sadly, the heat lasts longer than my holiday allowance, thus the remainder of summer is spent racing from air-con to swimming pool to G&T....
...When we encounter androids in the work of novelists such as Philip K Dick or Isaac Asimov, they are often tragic figures who demand an extension of sympathy: above all else they long to be human, which they...
...Stefan Isaacs, who manages high-yield bonds and euro-denominated credit for M&G Investments, said that like all financial market assets, the hybrid capital market had been supported by extremely low interest...
...organised pirates at the bottom — Witt maps out how an industry was turned on its head by file-sharing technology....
...Gavin Isaacs, Scientific Games’ chief executive, said that combining the two businesses would generate annual cost synergies of $220m and around $25m of annual capital expenditure savings, both to be realised...
...MediaCom, meanwhile, has added more than £110m of new business so far this year and its well-known clients include P&G, Shell, Universal, RBS and VW....
...“The market got itself to a place where it was too blasé about broader risks,” says Stefan Isaacs, a fund manager at M&G....
...Recent examples include Isaac Julien’s Playtime, at Victoria Miro in London, exploring financial capitalism, and the work of Spanish artist Julio Falagán....
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