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...Pension funds are piling into UK corporate bonds, encouraging some French and German companies to issue sterling debt for the first time....
...A new study adds to existing evidence that advances in women’s rights benefit everyone....
...We walk down the runway of the Atlas flight test centre in Andalucía to take a closer look at the Phoenix, the vehicle made by Lilium, the German electric aircraft start-up of which Meiner is a co-founder...
...Peter Wexler General counsel, Schneider Electric As incoming GC in 2009, Peter Wexler and his team created an ethics charter for Schneider Electric, the French electrical equipment group....
...The first national seed fund stimulated more than Rmb500bn of investment from the private sector and local governments; the second phase of the fund is expected to encourage a further Rmb1tn....
...And the benefit that this would bring to our environment, our society, and also commercially. And that's what we really focus on....
...Tom Frieden, the former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, describes this comment as “egregious”....
...As part of the WPD deal, National Grid sold Narragansett Electric Company, its Rhode Island gas and electricity business, to PPL Corporation....
...There are European businesses that are well positioned to benefit from this....
...micro electrical grids, and Neste, the Finnish oil group developing synthetic fuels....
...“The coronavirus shock was both a supply and a demand shock at the same time,” said Jörg Zeuner, chief economist of Union Investment, the €370bn German fund manager....
...(Vanity Fair) Powering up Volkswagen chief Herbert Diess isn’t giving up on the German carmaker’s aspirations to enter the electric car ring, competing with the likes of Tesla and the Renault-Nissan alliance...
...But she faces a challenge from National party leader Judith Collins....
...It plans to raise extra funds for the electric performance brand Polestar, and to formally merge with Volvo next year....
...CATL Sector: auto parts / HQ: Ningde, China Key stat: The Chinese group is investing €1.8bn in a German battery plant....
...“The sparks are definitely going to fly this year,” says Ingo Speich, fund manager at Deka Investment, a German asset manager. Shareholder activism has a relatively short history in Germany....
...Tom Braithwaite Lex writer...
...One is a drinks company and the other a supplier of electrical appliances — both apparent bets on the rise of China’s middle-class consumer....
...So the benefit of development is going to the farmers first,” Mr Cherukuri said....
...They may need to change their organisations radically to benefit from the new technologies....
...Additional reporting by Tom Mitchell in Beijing Illustration: Studio AKA Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...In 2012 she bought Mazarin, a defunct German yachtmaker, and shipped its factory to Qingdao....
...Mr Deaton remains a staunch defender of globalisation’s benefits....
...The field would benefit from more co-ordinated and generous programmes of public funding, to carry out basic research....
...With the appointment, Tom Enders, the group’s chief executive, is attempting to lay to rest management tensions sparked by closer integration of the Franco-German aerospace group and break down the fiefdoms...
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