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...The company was state run before the government offloaded 26 per cent of its stake in 2002 to natural resources conglomerate Vedanta, which went on to lift its holding to nearly 65 per cent....
...But one of the jewelled eggs was bought in 2004 by the now sanctioned oil and gas mogul Viktor Vekselberg, who later passed its ownership to a company registered in Panama, Lamesa Arts Inc; it is usually...
...In the middle, the company has further debt at intermediate holding companies — such as “Altice Luxembourg”, an entity that sits above the company’s French and international businesses and has €6.2bn of...
...Fifteen years later, the company is again facing the prospect of downsizing. Along with individual group companies, what is at stake is the balance sheet of the holding company itself....
...While it’s true rental companies can bring some economies of scale to the market — taking advantage of location, maintenance, insurance, cleaning and vehicle financing synergies — what they gain in those...
...Wasu Media Holding Co for more than $1bn on Tuesday....
...Investment strategy: A value investor and a disciple of Ben Graham, Mr Watsa invests via his insurance company Fairfax Financial Holdings....
...– notably Samsung Life Insurance, which owns 7.5 per cent of the company....
...Investors in the new fund include IAM National Pension Fund, State of Oregon, and Sentry Insurance....
...“I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
...(NASDAQ & TASE: SPNS) is a provider of IT solutions that modernize business processes to enable insurance and other companies to quickly adapt to changes; and nextSource Inc., designs, develops and implements...
...Consolidated net profit, however, fell 27.5 per cent to Rs6.51bn on losses in the banking group’s life insurance business and UK subsidiary....
...In the view of several present and former AIG executives, Mr Sullivan was a brilliant insurance man but the group had become much more than an insurance company and he lacked a deep understanding of the...
...Nomura Holdings, Japan’s largest broker, dropped 7.3 per cent to Y1,326 in Tokyo and HSBC, the company with the biggest weighting in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index, Sumitomo Mitsui fell by 7.1 per cent to Y630,000...
...Varsity blue skies Lehman Brothers has extended its sponsorship of Oxford v Cambridge rugby union matches – men’s and women’s – until 2010....
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
...Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the recently ousted chairman of AIG, the world’s largest insurance company, has always been a tough businessman....
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