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...Three years later, they used privately held Dell to buy technology conglomerate EMC, which owned 81 per cent of VMware, for $67bn, then a record tech takeover....
...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
...A huge chunk of that — Rs205bn — came from the sale of a 3.5 per cent stake in state-run Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) in May through a long-delayed initial public offering....
...The responses point to higher fuel and utility bills, rising National Insurance and business taxes, supply chain disruption and the combination of higher wages and labour shortages....
...They are looking for a long-term, not temporary solution to their unsatisfactory life in China.”...
...The national insurance rise had already gone through. It had been passed as a health and social care levy, which people broadly bought into at the time....
...While theatre owners and companies welcomed the extra money ploughed into the sector, the Budget announcement did not address the lack of Covid-related insurance for big productions....
...Still, he is not angry about how Covid-19 has affected his life....
...(FT) Volunteering, such as at a vaccination centre, can make one happier, healthier and more satisfied with life. Purpose-seeking companies should take note, writes Pilita Clark....
...In the news Apollo to merge with Athene Apollo Global Management is to merge with Athene Holding, the life insurance company it created at the height of the financial crisis, transforming the alternative...
...Japanese insurer Tokio Marine has said the insurance policies at the heart of the Greensill Capital collapse may not have been valid, as investors pressed the company to detail its exposure to the lender...
...Institutions such as Daiichi Life, a Japanese insurance company, and individual investors have invested in the bonds....
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...Having ruled out increases in income tax, national insurance and VAT rates in its 2019 manifesto, the government will likely initially look to other options....
...; (iv) assist in the payment of sickness benefits; and (v) protect supply-chain financing in response to the coronavirus....
...“It’s bad news for him now there is a second national player,” he said. “I find his argument frankly self-serving.”...
...In the worst of three scenarios it suggested that 21 of the 83 insurance companies it surveyed, with a market share of 35 per cent, would not meet minimum capital requirements by 2025....
...On the contrary, there is an incentive to migrate pre-Brexit to earn an active national insurance number....
...But it’s a useful insurance policy if the economy were to take a sudden cyclical lurch downwards....
...This will remove over £1bn from the cost of providing motor insurance. We expect the industry to pass on this saving, so motorists see an average saving of £40-50 per year off their insurance bills....
...The National Institute for Economic and Social Research predicts that the British economy will grow by 3 per cent this year and business investment by 13 per cent as companies become more confident about...
...The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was levying the maximum available fine – $7,000 per day – on GM for failing to provide answers to a third of the 107 questions it sent the company...
...“A lot of companies have highlighted the need to invest in youth and tackle unemployment by educating them in life skills,” says Kerry Perkins, BITC awards manager....
...Everywhere else, whistleblowers have protections in law, though not necessarily if national security is at stake....
...Among the corporate figures given CBEs is Vanni Treves, former chair of Equitable Life, who joined the company in 2001 just after the UK’s oldest mutual insurer had closed to new business....
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