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...His bookings fell to nothing in the wake of the storm, and he turned in his boat licence rather than pay its $7,000 a year insurance....
...It owed millions of dollars more to suppliers such as Calvin Klein-owner PVH. Insurance money had helped save the company before....
...Overall, we assume that in developed markets, namely North America and Western Europe, volumes decline by 20% y/y in 2020....
...Sexy was also top of mind for Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia, co-creative directors of Oscar de la Renta and their own five-year-old label, Monse....
...Here’s Investec (sell) to summarise: [L]ockdowns are impacting consumption in North America (c. 30% of sales), Europe (c. 20% of sales), India (c. 10% of sales), Africa (12% of sales) and many countries...
...Blue J Legal, a Toronto-based business, mines Canadian court rulings on tax and employment....
...Peter Frankopan Author of ‘The Silk Roads’ I absolutely loved Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile). It is a sparkling book that brings the past to life....
...Search for new markets in Asia/Latin America involves higher costs and risks....
...One company that should be considering a radical change to its corporate shape is Allianz. The German insurance group has done very nicely out of its 2000 purchase of bond fund manager Pimco....
...The deal is the largest of its kind in Asia, giving AIA access to Citi’s 13m customers in 11 countries, all of which are among the fastest-growing life assurance markets in the world, allowing both companies...
...Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life, by J Craig Venter, Little, Brown, RRP£20/Viking, RRP$26.95 Craig Venter, genomics pioneer and superstar of molecular biology...
...Jesus is gone but Mary is still on earth, harassed by evangelists who want to make her life a story....
...Mr Muir-Wood concludes that there could be greater risk of large tremors in the north-west of the US, or northern Chile. Allianz, the German insurer, went further this year....
...Tokyo Star Bank, Far Glory Life Insurance Company Ltd., Taiwan Life Insurance Company Ltd., and East Asia Asset Management Ltd...
...CHILDREN’S BOOKS J Smith, by Fougasse, Walker Books, RRP£10, 152 pages A reproduction of a miniature book made in 1922 by the cartoonist Fougasse for inclusion in the library of Queen Mary’s Lutyens-designed...
...Asger Aamund (Denmark), President and Chief Executive, A.J....
...The news that the company wants to re-enter the general insurance market in Asia five years after selling such a business is seen by some as just the latest in a string of moves and reversals that suggest...
...Aviva, which garners the vast majority of its profits from Europe, would rather be compared with the large life and non-life insurers of the Continent, such as Axa, Allianz and Generali....
...Last month, Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, told a gathering of European regulators that he regarded large insurance companies and pension funds as systemically important institutions...
...He will however also have “a line” into Aviva’s board level risk and regulatory committee, led by Mary Francis, one of the company’s non-executives....
...It’s smooth sailing from here, though the sights turn increasingly grim: North Brother Island, where Typhoid Mary was confined for 26 years; then the prison barge at Rikers Island, the runways at LaGuardia...
...America, Empire of Liberty: A New History By David Reynolds Allen Lane, £30 When America looks in the mirror it sees “liberty”, never “empire”, says Reynolds....
...The former president of Avon North America runs a company used by an estimated 175 million immigrants to send money home....
...One of his colleagues was a classmate of Obama and told Porras: “You have never met anyone with such personal integrity in your life.” “That,” Porras says, “sold me.” This is the Wikipedia generation....
...Venture capital investment in renewable energy and clean technology – low-carbon and environmental technology – was about $1.7bn in North America and $700m in Europe last year, says Mr Parker....
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