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...In the UK, we have never had such a poor record, including abrupt U-turns, in macroeconomic management....
...as life returns to normal in 2021....
...Simon French: The UK economy faces a real problem from the growing disincentives to be a publicly listed company....
...“Most [advice] companies charge a risk premium on top of their fee because they are having to take out private indemnity insurance to conduct the work and that is expensive,” says Andy James, head of retirement...
...The pound did little more than wobble when Leave took a lead in the opinion polls — and the FTSE 100’s collapse, followed by a swift recovery, suggests a knee-jerk reaction rather than cool calculation....
...On the high street, M&S Bank offers a £100 M&S voucher for people switching into its current account....
...from a fake Twitter account in 2012....
...Amazon is increasingly a daily presence in modern life....
...Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-Year-Old Story Retold, by John Guy, Viking, RRP£25 Guy, a leading authority on Tudor England, delivers a vivid account of the life and times of Thomas...
...The rise of money markets created a new class of bank-like institutions that do not need to buy insurance to protect depositors....
...I could do run-off, I could do new, I could do reinsurance, I could do insurance. I could life insurance; I did non-life insurance. I managed a lot of people; I got to do big deals....
...And it lives on in all the Americans who’ve dropped everything to go some place they’ve never been and pull people they’ve never known from rubble, prompting chants of “U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A!”...
...says John Koh, a fund manager at Daiwa Asset Management whose IPO investments include BoC, BoCom, CCB and China Life. ?...
...Does the revenue issue a form of some kind or is it handled by the insurance companies?...
...Life assurers and fund managers are launching a new breed of investment fund in an attempt to persuade worried savers to transfer billions of pounds out of building society accounts....
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