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...Fidelity’s Wright likes L&G, an institutional investor, with promising property projects, for example a £4bn partnership with Oxford university for housing and other schemes....
...It, like many of the other accessories, has been adorned with a new symbol for the house: a padlock inscribed with the Givenchy “G”, inspired by those hung from the Pont des Arts....
...Harley, Stockton-on-Tees, England Crossword 16,284: J Vercoe, Dorchester, UK; Anna Bruce, Wiltshire, UK; J Ireland, Bristol, UK Polymath 1,041: Phoebe Sutherland, London Crossword 16,278: Peter Bromwich...
.... — Victoria Preston, author, London, UK A hidden West End gem A discreet but central spot in an unfashionable part of the West End, Aquavit London is a gem of a place....
...Euan Sutherland takes over as chief executive next year....
...However, he also demonstrates how the same approaches can help in public policy (e.g. new narratives around taxation) so the book will interest a broader audience....
...G Plants, which makes seed kits in Preston, has spent £1.2m to bring production back from Holland to the UK, investing in a new £600,000 facility in Blackburn and increasing its staff from eight to 18....
...The operating profits that assurers disclose for any given period largely reflect earnings generated from business written in years gone by, says Matthew Preston at Berenberg....
...Even so, said Matthew Preston, analyst at Berenberg, the results lacked “the big positive surprises – especially with regard to dividends beats – that we have become used to in recent years”....
...Eric Calderwood The university lecturer had the job of overseeing the committee that set Mr Sutherland’s pay....
...This view is echoed by a fund manager who is top 20 shareholder in L&G. “We are looking at the insurance sector closely, but we are not abandoning our stake or selling down,” he says....
...L&G declined to comment. Additional reporting by George Parker and Alistair Gray...
...Warburg’s successors at S.G. Warburg never won a seat at Wall Street’s top table despite its becoming the leading UK investment bank....
...But Martin Sorrell has never quite shed the suspicion that hung around him and his partner Preston Rabl that day, like the odour of the chip shop where they had grabbed lunch....
...“The appetite has gone away quite a bit,” says Matthew Preston, an analyst at Berenberg. But he adds: “As [management] why would you want to squash it [the speculation]?...
...As a result, incoming Co-op Group chief executive Euan Sutherland is planning an independent inquiry into the financial tram wreck....
...“It is important to put the announcement from Moody’s in perspective,” said Andrew Sutherland, head of credit at Standard Life Investments....
...of colour, little High ‘E’ notes striking through the light And the sound of his taking of her, the ‘A’, and the drop from the horror of what he’s done – to ‘G’”....
...But projections based on the outcome of the last general election suggest that Labour will lose only two Scottish seats as a result of these changes, g from 41 to 39, while the Scottish National party would...
...As a result, we are facing a “leadership vacuum” – catchily defined as a “G-Zero world”....
...John Sutherland’s most recent book is ‘Curiosities of Literature’ (Random House)...
...John Sutherland is author of ‘The Boy Who Loved Books’ (John Murray) ………………………………………….....
...Persuading independent financial advisers that L&G could cut it as an active manager has been a long process, says Mr Burgess....
..., and I replied, ‘Absolutely nothing, I just wanted to meet Paul Preston.’” A waiter brings the dessert menu. Will Sutherland be tempted? “Absolutely not. Oh, I might take the fresh raspberries....
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