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...In 1983, he founded Aristotle Inc, a technology consultancy that sold voter data to political campaigns....
...“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....
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...Down the road, the government hopes to sell its remaining 29.5 per cent stake, valued at around Rs380bn, in Vedanta-controlled mining company Hindustan Zinc....
...Few US companies make the A-list because most American groups have strong ties to lobbying groups, such as the Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers, which “remain largely opposed...
...American companies will be allowed to collaborate with Huawei on setting technical standards that will determine the rules of the road for 5G and other emerging technologies....
...Here’s Peel Hunt on RSA Insurance: We view the recent sell off in the share price as having been overdone....
...Materials and Financials have usually been the best performing sectors after significant market troughs, in particular Construction Materials, Metals & Mining, Diversified Financials and Insurance....
...Institutions such as Daiichi Life, a Japanese insurance company, and individual investors have invested in the bonds....
...Our favoured names include Polymetal (Buy, price target GBp1,420), Resolute Mining (Buy, price target GBp84/AUD1.60), Endeavour Mining (Buy, price target CAD31) and Hummingbird Resources (Buy, price target...
...The FT’s John Gapper thinks Buffett may have been blinded by his love of America and everything American....
...and reduced its stake in energy group Phillips 66....
...Claims related to cryptojacking — where hackers take over a company’s systems and then use them for mining cryptocurrencies — are also rising....
...He joins from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Campbell Lutyens, an advisory firm, has hired Suvir Varma to its advisory board. He joins from Bain & Company. Before that, he worked at AT Kearney....
...estate and hotels, as well as insurance and financial services”....
...In December President Donald Trump asked Nasa to send Americans to the moon for the first time since 1972 and to prepare for trips to Mars....
...Berkshire Hathaway, the auto parts-to-insurance conglomerate founded by Buffett, acquired a 38.6 perper centuity stake in the Tennessee-based company that will rise to an 80 per cent stake in 2023....
...Others in the group include Hillhouse Capital Management, real estate firm China Vanke, JD.com and Ping An Insurance. Fang (below) is very connected....
...This year their fire is instead aimed at congressional races and ensuring opponents of “economic freedom” do not make gains, says Tim Phillips, president for Americans for Prosperity, their political vehicle...
...Freeport-McMoRan on Monday outlined plans to sell its largest African copper mine to China Molybdenum for $2.65bn, in the US mining company’s most decisive step so far to reduce its $20bn debt load....
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...company Anglo American, which recommends that boards appoint at least one non-white director to every FTSE 100 company by 2021....
...An op-ed by Trevor Phillips points out how algorithms used to price insurance or grant credit, for example, can create or enforce ethnic discrimination....
...Philip Morris owned 25.1 per cent of Godfrey Phillips at the end of last year, and reportedly has a 50.1 per cent stake in a joint venture established by the two companies for marketing purposes....
...For AIG, the insurance group, data mining is being used to improve the hiring of external legal service providers....
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