Hints and tips:
...The case followed an attempt by a French tourism association to place tougher rules on Airbnb....
...David Graham Blanchflower, professor at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and Glasgow university: Hard to know....
...(At least one appears to have become a BSI client, with a Swiss account held via a Guernsey trust.)...
...And for China Inc as a whole, the news was even worse....
...gains tax liabilities under EIS....
...Forbes did not reveal this prior association at the time of the sale....
...Retirees in the UK tend to buy their retirement homes outright or rent through housing associations, whereas the US and New Zealand village model offers alternative payment structures....
...The trust’s first acquisitions will be 77 affordable homes at one of its own schemes in Hampshire, which it will offer at 80 per cent of market rent, according to Property Week, the industry trade publication...
...These troubles throw doubt on the government’s affordable housing programme, which requires housing associations to make greater use of their own financial resources to fund the development of new homes....
...BofA has moved to settle claims related to a trust managed by Bank of New York Mellon for $8.5bn....
...There was much discussion of the inflation outlook at the recent conference held by the National Association of Pension Funds....
...Assured Guaranty’s new business comes from insuring bonds sold in the US municipal bond market....
...Trusts: “Trusts will be especially badly hit by the impending increase in income tax rates....
...The extent of the loss of trust in the banking system is likewise extraordinary, as is the global nature of bank liabilities....
...Still more startling was news that the Federal Reserve was advancing $85bn (€59bn, £47bn) of taxpayers’ money to AIG, the world’s biggest private insurer....
...The HomeBanc news follows the announcement on Monday that the purchase of second-largest US apartment owner Archstone-Smith by Tishman Speyer Properties and Lehman Brothers could be delayed until early October...
...Oil and gas producers, as well as property developers, are widely viewed as the most suitable businesses to operate as trusts....
...Thus Bahrain, which never had much oil of its own, has had to promote its own more established financial sector with a new and flashy property development, while gas-rich Qatar has launched a rival to the...
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