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...The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute has appointed Lakshmi Narayanan, the former vice-chair and CEO of professional services group Cognizant, as chair....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...The purpose of a company, it says, “is to engage all its stakeholders in shared and sustained value creation”. Multinationals, it adds, must do nothing less than “improve the state of the world”....
...A one-off payment of €1.2m was made by Georgian authorities as a “travel fund” to Henninghall Ltd, also set up in Ras Al Khaimah....
...It was the first of several fundraisings that US authorities allege Mr Low tapped to benefit himself and his associates....
...of the United States.” – Clinton on Trump....
...They trust only with caution. They see the future as a string of cash-draining emergencies....
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...This may complicate life for makers of driverless cars: because of legal uncertainties and hugely variable driving environments, “self-driving” is likely to be offered as an optional setting for decades...
...Global banks, trust companies and professional services groups have been finding a foothold in Jersey’s prime financial district ever since this 45 sq mile island began building its reputation as an offshore...
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...From Pakistan to Yemen, the al-Qaeda operatives who remain are scrambling, knowing that they can’t escape the reach of the United States of America....
...“One of the benefits of being a finance professional is that you can switch industries fairly easily.”...
...“Getting into sport took me right out of my comfort zone and allows me to improve and grow and develop at a much faster pace,” he says....
...I know you have the ear of the Pope, Obama, Lakshmi et al, but I ask you humbly to let this be strictly “off the record”....
...If you had banks in the United States that had 25 per cent of the whole banking market of the United States, I think almost anybody would say, there’s something wrong with that degree, that size institution...
...God bless the United States of America. Thank you, everybody. (Applause.)...
...In fact, ETF issuers in the United States have been tapping into the market’s apparent growing need for cheap and easy exposure to foreign exchange for a number of years now....
...That sort of move would, after all, benefit competitors equally, not to mention being massively expensive. Software development doesn’t cost as much but the competitor problem remains....
...Washington State Plumbing & Pipefitting Pension Trust v....
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