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...“Not a single one of the clients who are in these funds would pay these rates for any other type of insurance, certainly not term [life] insurance,” she points out....
...Ever since, the promise of eye-watering returns has enticed pension plans, endowments, insurance companies, private banks and business tycoons to pump $5tn into the industry....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 19. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...But one of the jewelled eggs was bought in 2004 by the now sanctioned oil and gas mogul Viktor Vekselberg, who later passed its ownership to a company registered in Panama, Lamesa Arts Inc; it is usually...
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...These include maintenance, depreciation, security, IT, insurance, theft, regulation and developer costs, and must all be passed on to fleet managers in a shared-mobility model, cutting into affordability...
...By classifying drivers as independent contractors, Uber does not have to pay costs for benefits such as health insurance and sick leave that they must offer employees....
...In the middle, the company has further debt at intermediate holding companies — such as “Altice Luxembourg”, an entity that sits above the company’s French and international businesses and has €6.2bn of...
...“It’s ridiculous, but people like its simplicity,” he says. “Once a measure gets standard it becomes gamed.”...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on April 20, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Despite their simplicity, those types of strategies can be effective....
...While it’s true rental companies can bring some economies of scale to the market — taking advantage of location, maintenance, insurance, cleaning and vehicle financing synergies — what they gain in those...
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...In it are details of investments that the billionaire founder of Berkshire Hathaway files away because the companies lack the simplicity and clarity he insists on....
...V&A’s robot-made web London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, has launched a season of exhibitions and events focused on the “unsung role” of engineering in society....
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...We also need the tech companies to acknowledge the disruption they cause and do far more to benefit all aspects of our lives. john.thornhill@ft.com...
...Other companies can sense that simplicity pays....
...Customers choose to have the treatments and pay for them out of their own pocket, rather than through an insurance plan....
...Premiums of reinsurers, which allow insurance companies to transfer the risks of hurricanes and other disasters, have been pushed down to their lowest levels in more than a decade by fierce competition....
...In my last column, I described the larger successor to the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey that is being developed by Bell Helicopter along with Lockheed Martin and a clutch of other specialist companies....
...Potts, a leading company law advocate, drew attention to the famous case of Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company....
...And maybe the simplicity of the software will encourage companies to take up the challenge and listen to their staff....
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