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...In a July note, analysts at Jefferies noted that private medical insurance is already expensive at about £1,500 per year per person, and prices typically rise 15 to 20 per cent a year....
...After a troubled five-year hold period, the firm is now looking for an exit, the FT’s Gill Plimmer and DD’s Will Louch report....
...Stuff I have enjoyed recently Tenacious utilities writer Gill Plimmer produced a balanced Big Read on Macquarie with FT colleague Nic Fildes....
...The FT’s Will Louch, Robert Smith and Gill Plimmer offer a detailed look at how a safe and stable critical infrastructure asset has been transformed over decades into a financial headache....
...It is in discussions with its banks — Merrill Lynch, Barclays, UBS and Jefferies — as to how much it could raise its offer for the business following an aggressive campaign to discredit its rival....
...The £1.08bn sale is less than Acadia paid for the Priory to Advent International, another private equity firm, four years ago but Brian Tanquilut, analyst at Jefferies, said it was “above most investors’...
...“There is definitely a PR exercise at Mercedes and GM that we need to discount,” says Philippe Houchois, an automotive analyst at Jefferies....
...Bankers including Barclays, UBS, Bank of America and Jefferies stand to earn as much as £100m in fees for providing financial advice and broking services should a deal be reached, GardaWorld said in the...
...Another Freshfields alum, Barry O’Brien, left the magic circle for Jefferies in 2014....
...“With a change in chair and CEO, we expect a revised approach to the portfolio, especially in the US business,” Jefferies analyst Andrew Gill wrote in a note, adding that Mr Tritant’s time in the US could...
...Analysts at Jefferies, the US investment bank, said: “With a further cut in allowed returns, overall, we see today’s update as negative for the listed water companies.”...
...Steiff, Norwich Crossword 16,182: Stephen M Tudhope, Oswestry; Oscar McKittrick, Edinburgh; Patricia Blakemore, Walsall Polymath 1,024: Linda Parry, Cheshire Crossword 16,176: John Edwards, Llanon; R Gill...
...“All of our department stores have felt the drop in footfall,” said Jamie Gill, chief executive of London luxury label Roksanda. “There’s been a pause for everyone....
...But analysts at US investment bank Jefferies said the purchase by GardaWorld “would be a stretch given the relative scale of the two businesses and their respective leverage”....
...During the period, its Miss Pap brand signed a £1m contract with Amber Gill, this year’s winner of reality television show Love Island....
...Mr Kapoor is to be replaced by Ravneet Gill, head of Deutsche Bank’s Indian operation, from March 1....
...rival outsourcers including Mitie, Serco and Interserve struggling to rebuild their businesses following a wave of profit warnings and contract scandals, Kean Marden, equity analyst at the investment bank Jefferies...
...Rothschilds is advising Cambian, while Jefferies is advising CareTech....
...Jefferies, an investment bank, popped up to declare it would cost at least £124bn to nationalise just the UK’s big six power utilities....
...David Owen, economist at Jefferies, added: “Looking at the UK in a post-Brexit world, the chancellor could arguably have been more ambitious in his plans to boost long-term UK productivity growth, including...
...Analysts at Jefferies, the US investment bank, said the “appointment of Jonathan Lewis as CEO should be welcomed for two reasons....
...Analysts at the US investment bank Jefferies said the fall in new contract wins would “revive discussion regarding whether Capita needs to shrink back to a higher quality core”....
...Kean Marden, analyst at Jefferies, says that “painting problems with the Brexit brush is convenient but not really the entire truth”....
...Jefferies, the investment bank, and property consultancy Knight Frank are advising on the sale. Acadia, BC Partners, Carlyle and Apax all declined to comment....
...The investment bank Jefferies and property consultancy Knight Frank are advisers on the sales....
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