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...So if you were investing, say, £100 in M&G as I’ve just as I’ve just mentioned, if you invested £100 in M&G at the moment, you get an annual dividend of about £9.50....
...The right of bondholders to bring lawsuits directly must be restored; bondholders should not be limited to proceeding through an indenture trustee....
...Kate Barker, pension trustee at BCSSS: The UK likely to lag other economies — productivity growth seems unlikely to pick up....
...Bristol, England Crossword 16,224: Sophie Huczynska, Scotland; Carol Bostock-Smith, Halesworth, England; Andrew Ashbridge, Edinburgh Polymath 1,031: AM Garfield, Banbury, England Crossword 16,218: Richard Gibson...
...John Van Reenen: It will not....
...In case auditors were in any doubt after an excoriating review from the Competition and Markets Authority and a castigation of the regulator, the Financial Reporting Council, by L&G chairman John Kingman...
...John Williams has been appointed president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York....
...Law firm Gibson Dunn have elected 16 new partners. More info here....
...“I would never have voted that way but she is doing a really good job,” said Lynn Gibson, an assistant at G’s Golden Chippy and Pizzeria, which is known locally for its “parmo”....
...John Brunner’s multi-faceted dystopia Stand on Zanzibar (1968) is arguably the most accurately visionary SF novel of all time....
...Nils Pratley, The Guardian’s financial editor and a candidate to become a Scott trustee, said last week that “standard principles of good governance have not been followed”....
...“They’re up against Aviva and L&G in this market. If you’re a pension trustee, it [the enlarged business] is a much more credible proposition. “The deal makes a lot of sense.”...
...In 1320, six years after Bannockburn, Scottish nobles issued the Declaration of Arbroath, a letter to Pope John XXII....
...Arriving early at B&G Oysters, a preppy restaurant in Boston’s Back Bay, I turn to the glossary of Junot Díaz’s first book Drown....
...Selections by Ángel Gurría-Quintana … POETRY Red Doc> , by Anne Carson, Jonathan Cape, RRP£12/Knopf, RRP$24.95 In her follow-up to Autobiography of Red , Carson renames her winged hero Geryon as “G”...
...Newly appointed Lloyd’s of London chairman John Nelson quipped that he was chosen because he knew little about insurance in front of the M&G garden....
...Related links: Madoff trustee sues JPMorgan for $6.4bn - FT The perfect performance of Bernie Madoff - FT Alphaville, 2008...
...Robert Gibson, deputy high commissioner, Karachi. Andrew Lloyd, former director of corporate services, FCO. Trevor Pears, executive chair, Pears Foundation....
...With the WorkSave product, employers can appoint L&G as the trustee or the usual mix of employer and employee appointed trustees....
...“Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians,” G.K. Chesterton wrote....
...In fact, without its few – too few – squeaks of discomfort it would be Saint John. So we give thanks whenever the opposition is called to the stand, even if it is G....
...Q: I’m a trustee of an office furniture recycling social enterprise called Green-Works....
...It is working with John Cleese on a screenplay about cavemen called Crude Awakening....
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