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...Křetínský, a lawyer-turned-energy tycoon, is the largest shareholder in IDS with a 27.5 per cent stake and has been a prolific dealmaker in the UK, buying stakes in supermarket chain J Sainsbury and London...
...The Irish state invested in state companies; for example in Érin Foods which was a food processing company under Lt General Michael J Costello. Micheál O’CathailDún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland...
...EU regulations known as Mifid II, which force brokers to charge clients separately for investment research and trading, have also squeezed smaller brokerages....
...Her inclusion in Queen Elizabeth II’s new year’s honours for 2020 and her marriage to high-profile economist Sir Robert Chote gave her wider fame than most of her peers in the retail sector....
...Rolling back EU Mifid II rules Hunt backed new recommendations aimed at boosting the amount of investment research on UK listed companies, particularly small and mid-cap groups....
...BusinessLDN represents about 175 companies, including some of the UK’s largest employers, including Lloyds Bank, Legal & General, J Sainsbury, Unilever, Deloitte and PwC....
...The chief executives of AstraZeneca, NatWest, BAE Systems, SSE, Google DeepMind, J Sainsbury, Vodafone, GSK, Aviva, Shell, Sage, Taylor Wimpey, Diageo and Barclays are on the guest list....
...However Hunt will take a cautious approach — he says he does not want a Big Bang II — and has ruled out any “mandation” or telling pension funds how or where to invest their money....
...The departures dented the lobby group’s finances, forcing it to plan redundancies, while dozens more companies, such as J Sainsbury, publicly paused their ties with the group....
...“This is about evolution, not revolution,” said Hunt: “We are not seeking Big Bang II on this.”...
...I teamed up with Christopher Mills from J O Hambro, who provided the £5mn initial capital to start PHP before we were floated. Along the way I have put in £12mn of my own capital....
...Sinéad O’Connor never wanted to be a pop star....
...Barnsley’s executive director of growth and sustainability, Matt O’Neill, describes the system as “the poor competing with the poor”....
...This summer brought the Michael J Fox documentary Still on Apple TV+, while next week sees the release of Amazon Prime Video’s Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge of Everything, documenting the snooker champion’...
...nicknamed the “Wagatha Christie” trial, similarly caught the public imagination; although cameras were not allowed in court, the case was exhaustively reported and has since yielded a TV drama starring Michael...
...“Head of Julia II”, downward-glancing, is radiant, lovely, self-effacement achieved through inner strength....
...O’Leary on course for €100mn bonus (FT) Nikko in talks to buy Tikehau Stake, form partnership in Asia (Bloomberg) European buyout firms increase salaries despite downturn (FT)...
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Until May 26; further information and tickets here Performance ‘The Hours’, Royal Danish Playhouse A Danish-language adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s novel....
...Four years before Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, Ireland dumped its status as a UK dominion under the British monarch....
...In its latest, Michael Armitage’s “John Barry, O Kelly, Sonny and Richard Moore”, four Hackney dustmen work through lockdown....
...The Atlanta Braves did just that on Tuesday, shutting down the third inning against the Boston Red Sox with a shallow catch by centre fielder Michael Harris II, who turned the ball to first baseman Matt...
...The leaders of Scotland and Northern Ireland issued condolences on social media following the death of Queen Elizabeth II....
...But I’m most excited about Nakhla, the standalone boutique of the eponymous jewellery brand, situated at the feet of the iconic statue of Rameses II....
...But Michelle O’Neill, the party’s first minister-designate, joined Tuesday’s events and has signed a book of condolences for the late Queen Elizabeth II....
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