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...Ralph Reed, a lobbyist and founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, also said the race was wide open....
...He warned religious liberty was “in danger of becoming a second-class right”, citing cases such as the state of Washington notifying Ralphs — a pharmacy chain owned by an anti-abortion Christian family that...
...The oil producer ConocoPhillips and the luxury goods group Ralph Lauren issued results that topped forecasts....
...Allianz has changed its ROE target from 13 per cent to over 13 per cent. The Allianz chief, whose contract was recently extended until 2024, also unveiled a new strategy dubbed “simplicity wins”....
...Ms Schoen said she believed it was unlikely that the court would overturn Roe v Wade....
...Heidrick & Struggles, a consulting and executive search firm, has hired Ian Tomlinson-Roe as a consulting partner. Before joining, he was a senior partner at PwC....
...ROE was over 30 per cent, while leverage was kept very low — shareholders’ equity to assets was around 80 per cent....
...According to Willis Re, part of broker Willis Towers Watson, reinsurers reported a return on equity (ROE) of 8 per cent last year....
...It reported a 14.2 per cent ROE for 2016. “We reached the top end of the range a year earlier than we thought we might do,” said Mr Hester. “It’s quite a meaty increase [to the target] at the top end....
...“There is a concern that some companies could struggle to create an adequate ROE,” said Martyn Street, senior director at Fitch, who added that he expected prices to remain under pressure....
...The Swiss bank reported adjusted pre-tax profits, excluding litigation, of SFr1.672bn in the three months to the end of June, against the SFr1.205bn expected by analysts polled on July 11 write the FT’s Ralph...
...The good news Companies wanting to borrow money have “never had it so good”, according to John Roe, head of multi-asset funds at Legal & General Investment Management, pointing to an era of cheap money...
...To reach its ROE target, Aegon is assuming that US interest rates will rise by 60 basis points over three years, while equity markets will return 8 per cent a year (including dividends)....
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...Look at Wells Fargo, which is predominantly in the retail sector, with a 12 per cent five-year average ROE. Or even Goldman, a pure investment bank, with 11 per cent....
...During the past 10 years, UBS’s average ROE has been just over 4 per cent, and even excluding the disaster that was 2008, the average is 11 per cent....
...“The opinion acknowledges the controversy but avoids a Roe-type eventuality by saying that this is a state issue,” she said....
...The Supreme Court would spark national divisions if it repealed Doma, he warned, as it did 40 years ago when it allowed abortion through the Roe v Wade case....
...“While serving as principal deputy solicitor-general from 1989-1993 he authored briefs calling for Roe v....
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