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...Aspen’s chief executive Mark Cloutier was previously the boss of Brit Group, which was also backed by Apollo and chose London for its 2014 IPO, before its acquisition a year later by Canadian group Fairfax...
...CCLA chief executive Peter Hugh Smith said the investor group hoped to push companies to discuss the issue “in the boardroom”....
...Several big US insurers, including State Farm and The Hartford, have paused their underwriting of new home policies in the state of California....
...arrangement was provided alongside a deal in which GAM’s funds lent more than $120mn to Greensill Capital, via a special-purpose vehicle called Laufer, named after a creek on the financier’s family watermelon farm...
...There’s enormous investment in renewable energy, onshore wind farms and so on and offshore as well, and big solar installations in order to bring down energy costs....
...The economy created 187,000 new non-farm jobs in August — higher than forecasts of 170,000 but the third consecutive month below the 200,000 mark....
...The $156bn firm is lining up Mark Benedetti, a US-based former accountant, to lead it one day....
...The network of US farms they ended up working with felt comparable in standards to farms they worked with in the UK. “Ethics is flavour,” Beckett explains. “Happy animals are important.”...
...His comments mark a more assertive stance at the business founded by Bezos in 2000....
...It marks their lowest level for the second week of November since 2020....
...News in-depth As Northern Ireland marks 25 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which ended three decades of conflict, the historic deal still has much unfinished business....
...“I just thought I’m going to go for it because I believe that older women have a right to be in fashion,” says the now-64-year-old, who has modelled for brands including Marks and Spencer and Aspinal of...
...If finalised, the deal would mark the largest private equity takeover of the year....
...DD’s Rob Smith and Sujeet Indap explain why two US hedge funds are betting on this slightly ridiculous scenario playing out at Credit Suisse....
...Take a break from the news TikTok and YouTube have become star-makers for a handful of people who have turned their homes into content farms....
...September 14 to 22; further information here Turner Prize, Tate Britain This year marks the 40th anniversary of the contemporary art prize; the award champions the most outstanding recent contributions...
...Like Mark Zuckerberg a day earlier, Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai highlighted the potential of artificial intelligence for the future of his company....
...Sir Iain Duncan Smith, a former Conservative party leader, said this week that the 2030 deadline was “simply not achievable”....
...The fundraising marks a milestone for young tech companies trying to break into the notoriously difficult field of defence procurement. How well did you keep up with the news this week?...
...Some are poised in farm activities. Others are in exercise, play or mid-conversation....
...Catalyst switched from its original subadviser, called Stone Beach Investment Management, to Wynkoop Financial LLC, which manages another fund for Catalyst....
...It announced a new wind farm in the North Sea....
...Granny Smiths remain green, of course, and other cultivars are yellow even when ripe....
...“They choose what they publish very wisely, and these books will hold their value,” says Mark Skipper, owner of Cheltenham Rare Books....
...“HVDC [high-voltage direct current] becomes economic at about the 60km mark” for subsea systems, says Ian Douglas, chief executive of cable company XLCC....
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