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...Willis said her office would ask the judge to set a trial date within the next six months....
...He’ll be succeeded by North America head Carlos Abrams-Rivera....
...One video to start: The FT charts the rise and fall of Carlos Ghosn, the industry titan turned international fugitive, in this new 20-minute film....
...Aon/Willis Towers Watson deal collapses Aon and Willis Towers Watson have abandoned a $30bn tie-up that would have created the world’s biggest insurance broker after the US government sued to block the merger...
...Nice work if you can get it: Sotheby’s is to open its first pop-up gallery in Europe in the resort of Monte Carlo this summer....
...As the $600bn reinsurance industry’s top brass prepare to gather for their annual shindig in Monte Carlo this weekend, they have one eye on the path of Hurricane Dorian up the eastern coast of the US....
...Carlos Ghosn has always liked to make a grand entrance, akin to a visiting head of state, rather than a trip from a corporate officer....
...The 300 largest pension funds collectively manage more than $18tn in assets, for workers, according to Willis Towers Watson....
...The technology-focused private equity group Strattam Capital has hired Neil Willis from GTCR....
...The reinsurance industry travelled en masse this weekend to Monte Carlo for its annual get together....
...One thing to start: Aon is considering an all-stock merger with rival Willis Towers Watson....
...• Carlos Hardenberg has resigned unexpectedly as lead manager of the £2.4bn Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust....
...pages Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets, by Charles Wohlforth and Amanda Hendrix, Pantheon, RRP$27.95, 320 pages Clive Cookson is the FT’s science editor Photographs: Dani Caxete; Carlos...
...• Carlos Ortiz has moved to Franklin Templeton as an international fixed income research analyst....
...Dudovic Tézier as the vengeance-obsessed Carlo di Vargas is also formidable, while Vitalkj Kowaljow’s spooky, sonorous Marchese/Padre Guardiano is chillingly effective....
...Alive: New and Selected Poems, by Elizabeth Willis, NYRB Poets, RRP£9.99/$14 The US poet has a gift for achieving poignancy through juxtaposition and a deceptively light touch....
...Willis is in talks with other insurance groups to set up a similar scheme....
...Not many actors can get away with switching in and out of character, and yet Willis does it with ease, confident in our love. And we do love Willis....
...Mr Plumeri’s comments will make grim reading for reinsurers gathering this week for their annual get-together in Monte Carlo....
...A sister exhibition, After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, includes work that responds to some of the exhibits in Road to Freedom, as well as the premier of Hank Willis Thomas’s “...
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