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...(FT) Wei Zhu, global co-head of Standard Chartered Bank Private Equity, has left the position to take a role at Accenture as its chairman of greater China....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on April 20, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The Chinese consortium said it intends to keep Lexmark’s corporate headquarters in Lexington in the US state of Kentucky. It added that Mr Rooke will retain his roles as chairman and chief executive....
...James Manyika, co-head of the McKinsey Global Institute, suggests the picture is far more nuanced....
...Aerojet’s offer underlines the company’s desire to supply the engine for the new Vulcan rocket that ULA is developing to replace its Atlas V, which is powered by Russia-built engines that congress has said...
...“SpaceX clearly believes that it can leverage US dependence on Russian engines to get into the business of launching Pentagon satellites,” says Loren Thompson, an analyst at the Virginia-based Lexington...
...Awkward (Financial Times) Moscow’s ‘political technologists’ specialise in creating pure spectacle (Financial Times) Sleaze v spin in Mexico’s race for reform (Financial Times) The SEC is turning into...
...Top shareholdings: Resolute Forest Products; Dex Media; Cooper Tire & Rubber Company; IBM; Merck & Co; New York Times. Portfolio Value: $2.5bn....
...Krugman v Estonia: the operaBrazil: inflation targetting thrown to the winds Five things we have learned In the run-up to the March election, political risk insurance is the new must-have thing in Kenya.Russian...
...* Rich states urged to boost climate funds * Morsi offers talks but no concessions * Amazon launches online bookstore in Brazil * Kuwait closes in on BofA’s London HQ * Judge seeks closure in Apple v...
...biggest online retailer by sales looks to profit from a boom in internet shopping in the region that inspired its name. http://on.ft.com/RFKHvq Apple to return some Mac production to U.S. in 2013 Apple Inc...
...Related reading: Samsung v Apple: no more playing nice, beyondbrics S Korea corporates: hard times away from the podium, beyondbrics Succession not just family affair in Asia, FT Lex in depth: Samsung, FT...
...He sold Kroll to Marsh & McLennan, the insurance giant, for nearly $2bn in 2004....
...The insurance group surged 10.7 per cent to $31.05 on reports it had cancelled the initial public offering of Chartis and was opting to expand the business instead....
...Emphasis ours: There have been a number of recent reports about an exodus of employees from A.I.G., and the role of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc....
...If growth in developed countries starts to look like a “U”, in emerging markets it already is a “V”....
...LLC; Carlyle Investment Management L.L.C.; Blackstone Capital Partners V L.P.; Centerbridge Capital Partners, L.P....
...Investors in the new fund include IAM National Pension Fund, State of Oregon, and Sentry Insurance....
...See XLCA v Merrill, above....
...“I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
...CDSs are unregulated shadow insurance products that investors buy to protect themselves against default of corporate and sovereign bonds....
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
...Having said that there is a question over whether some of the insurers, which include the monoline insurers as well as other large insurance companies such as AIG, will be able to honour their insurance....
...“He could see around corners,” says Edward Matthews, one of Mr Greenberg’s most senior lieutenants at AIG and then at C.V. Starr, his investment vehicle....
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
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