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...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
...He also extended a $30mn loan to a company registered in the name of Epstein’s private pilot. The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet....
...In these cases, bond prices fell sharply and suddenly, with little trading activity on the way down....
...Meanwhile, a boom in first-quarter trading revenues for investment banks will probably only provide a short-term fillip....
...Just last week Apollo paid $1.6bn, mostly in its own shares, to nearly double its stake in its affiliated life insurance company, Athene Holding....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...From what we see,the company’s current approach to fixed-cost allocation is completely appropriate, but the effects are magnified by effectively being a one-product company....
...Equity, bond and credit mutual funds all had material outflows this week while money market funds had the biggest inflows on record, at $137bn....
...Brexit will create short-term disruptions as companies in the UK and EU settle into the new trading arrangements....
...; (iv) assist in the payment of sickness benefits; and (v) protect supply-chain financing in response to the coronavirus....
...estate and hotels, as well as insurance and financial services”....
...“The real concern for most companies contemplating an IPO isn’t the challenge of going public, it is the obligations and opportunities that come with being public,” said Lise Buyer, a partner at Class V...
...Equivalence Equivalence is a legal concept that has emerged over the past 30 years to facilitate cross border trading between markets that choose to recognise one another’s standards....
...He had been prosecuted after alerting shareholders to a fraud at Equity Funding Corporation of America, an insurance company....
...But he offers up another potential culprit: high-frequency trading firms....
...Over the past four years Old Mutual has already more than halved it, to £900m. Others have questioned the company’s rationale for the IPO....
...Other investors include Bain Capital Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, and investment manager Franklin Resources....
...Third Point Re began trading at the beginning of 2012 with $784m of equity capital, according to the regulatory filing....
...Markets: Equity markets in Asia were trading as if the chances of the Federal Reserve pulling back on its bond-buying programme are somewhere between small and nil....
...Morrison’s trading statement might seem to have little to recommend it. But the supermarket’s update suggests that in terms of sales the worst may be over....
...His group bought insurance broker Fidea from Dutch bank KBC in October 2011....
...That is still just a sliver of mutual funds, however....
...Among the corporate figures given CBEs is Vanni Treves, former chair of Equitable Life, who joined the company in 2001 just after the UK’s oldest mutual insurer had closed to new business....
...Harbinger Capital’s $350m (£225m, €270m) deal to buy the troubled US life-insurance business of Old Mutual, the Anglo-South African financial services group, came as a surprise to many in the City – not...
...A fee of 15 basis points would be paid on all liabilities not already subject to an insurance premium paid to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....
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