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...L&G: Shares in the UK-based insurer slipped 4 per cent despite strong annuity sales after it posted a first-half operating profit of £941mn, down 2 per cent year on year....
...Earnings: Crest Nicholson, FirstGroup, Mitie and Wizz Air Holdings report results, while M&G releases a first-quarter trading statement....
...Like bigger peers such as L&G, Just has a record pipeline of such deals in what is expected to be a record year for the market....
...jemima.kelly@ft.com...
...It’s an approach that features shapely monochrome vessels by potter Dan Kelly, but also the sculptural combinations of ceramic, wood, metal and video projection by British-Nigerian artist Ranti Bam....
...“Don’t hope for beta, focus on alpha,” said M&G Investments, adding that “the market rewards selection”....
...After dinner I moved on to Lola’s, a 1960s dance bar tucked under the great stone rampart, for old time’s sake and a large G&T....
...The area also boasts a brewery as well as the Banana Block, an events space in a former linen mill, so named because of its connection with William Richardson, the gardener who managed to grow the fruit...
...Paul Richardson was a guest of Cas Gasi and Six Senses Ibiza...
...s=20&t=G-nLXEiSkp1A6PVtECDSbg Showing a laudable knowledge of the Ottoman Empire: https://twitter.com/INVESTMENTSHULK/status/1491166143071264769?...
...Also, I only just caught up with Jemima Kelly’s wonderful, weird and hilarious trip to Mar-a-Lago to interview the Trumpettes, The Donald’s all- female fan club....
...At 51, the actress is 13 years younger than the uninvited (indeed unmentioned) love interest of the first film, Kelly McGillis....
...At this year’s fair, Richter’s “I.G.” (1993) sold for an undisclosed price, put at “above $10mn” by the gallery....
...Dixon in her early 20s landed her dream job: scouting talent for Def Jam recordings where she worked with artists such as the Notorious B.I.G....
...to the study, ‘Until Restrictions lift on July 19th’ We removed the word ‘rule’ from the study and replaced it with ‘idea’ We modified the wording of the scale items to make it seem less like a rule, e.g....
...Airbnb and P&G defended their participation, saying they were supporting athletes. Atos, the French IT company, said it enabled the Olympics regardless of location....
...(Memorably recorded on the flight register as one “G. Shepherd”.) So, of course, we thought it was worth sharing an excerpt....
...Given that the controversy over PPE Medpro is about some companies getting high-priority access to bid for contracts, e.g through political or other connections, Lady Mone of Mayfair seems like a particularly...
...“My daughter Kelly [the interior designer] thinks it’s a great idea.”...
...Hip swimwear label Hunza G’s distinctive crinkled fabric is knitted and dyed in a mill in the English Midlands, then cut and made in central London to reduce its carbon footprint....
...The additional 2,800 positions will be created by a handful of third-party contractors that work on Openreach’s behalf — including Kelly Group, Kier, Telent and John Henry Group — to service and build fibre...
...surveillance-based triggers for switching on and off population-wide social distancing and school closure offer greater robustness to uncertainty than fixed duration interventions and can be adapted for regional use (e.g....
...“[Brexit] does represent a challenge to M&G’s valuation given significant investor caution toward investing in UK stocks currently,” says Colm Kelly, an equity analyst at UBS....
...“semi-private blockchain model” they were moving towards (at the moment their blockchain is totally private) “is the same model that many of the world’s biggest financial institutions and companies (e.g....
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