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...Gartner Q4, Infineon Technologies Q1, Linde Q4, Mitsubishi Q3, Nintendo Q3, Omnicom Q4, Prudential Financial Q4, Snap Q4, Spotify Q4, Toyota Q3, UBS Q4, Virgin Money UK Q1 trading update, Western Union Q4, Willis...
...The use of environmental metrics in pay has increased significantly in North America, according to a January 24 report from Willis Towers Watson....
...The S&P 500 is up more than a third since the start of 2021 and hit record highs this year. Unemployment is near record lows....
...Tim Rourke, UK Head of P&C pricing, product, claims and underwriting at Willis Towers Watson, said insurers were having to deal with a “cocktail of rising costs”, including rising vehicle theft and long...
...US Steel’s share price is down 24 per cent from five years ago and lags an S&P materials benchmark index. Cleveland-Cliffs’ share price is up 42 per cent from five years ago....
...The pharmacy group’s former CEO abruptly stepped down last month Results: Philips Q3 Tuesday IEA World Energy Outlook report Canada, EU, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, US: S&P Global/Cips flash October...
...Monday France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, US: S&P Global/Cips/HCOB manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data Germany: monthly retail sales figures Results: Cranswick Q1 trading...
...The S&P 500 and the Euro Stoxx 600 indices are up about a quarter since the start of October....
...Looking specifically at the chief executive role, median pay was $13.4mn in the US in 2019, compared with $5.5mn in the UK, according to Willis Towers Watson....
...Regulating investment consultants like Willis Towers Watson, Mercer and Aon would not have prevented the liability-driven investing crisis....
...Monday EU, December retail sales figures Germany, December factory orders UK, S&P Global/Cips construction purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data Results: Activision Blizzard Q4, Anima FY, JFE Holdings...
...Willis Towers Watson is advising its clients to shift from passive to active asset management, amid growing concern about the risks of passive equity investing....
...Among the asset managers that declined to provide diversity data to the FT was the UK’s largest, Legal and General Investment Management, which has told FTSE 100 and S&P 500 companies that from 2022 it will...
...That compares with 52 per cent of S&P 500 companies and 63 per cent of companies listed on the main European indices, according to the Willis Towers Watson research....
...The great hedge fund debate Back in 2008 Warren Buffett made a $1m bet that the S&P 500 index would outperform a basket of hedge funds over the course of a decade....
...But consultants Willis Towers Watson estimate that only 4 per cent of S&P 500 companies include ESG metrics in the long-term incentive plans that are more relevant to the time horizon for decarbonisation...
...The S&P 500 was cratering as it became evident the coronavirus crisis in China had escalated into a pandemic that would force governments around the world to impose lockdown measures....
...Mercer, Aon Hewitt and Willis Towers Watson oversee more than $20tn of pension fund assets — almost half the global total....
...That is ahead of the 4 per cent rise in the S&P 500, but behind the share price growth at rival insurance brokers Aon and Willis Towers Watson, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...Global; Southern; Thermo Fisher Scientific; Total; Vertex Pharmaceuticals; Twitter; Royal Dutch Shell; Airbus; Willis Towers Watson; WHSmith; Flutter Entertainment; Glencore; Inchcape; Meggitt; NatWest;...
...Overdraft fees contributed some $12bn to US banks’ revenue in 2019, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. At some smaller banks it represents as much as 10 per cent of total revenue....
...China’s benchmark CSI 300 index is up about 27 per cent this year, in dollar terms, beating the S&P 500 by more than 13 percentage points....
...Key reports Monday KKR; SoftBank Tuesday Centene; Cisco Systems; S&P Global; DuPont; Twenty First Century Fox; Twitter; Willis; Ocado; Nissan Motor; Royal Mail Group Wednesday Coca-Cola; Uber; Applied...
...The research found annualised volatility in the S&P 500 index was 2 percentage points lower in the 100 days preceding and following a presidential vote....
...Other financial companies in the spotlight are S&P Global, index group MSCI, rating agency Moody’s, card companies Visa and Mastercard, advisory firm Willis Towers Watson, and private equity groups Blackstone...
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