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...That also gives the fund a mid-cap bias. The fund has in its top holdings agriculture business Deere, water company Xylem, and Darling Ingredients....
...Ever since, the promise of eye-watering returns has enticed pension plans, endowments, insurance companies, private banks and business tycoons to pump $5tn into the industry....
...Handel Hendrix House, where Jimi Hendrix lived for a year in London, has now reopened following restoration....
...The author could also have done more to explore the broader competitive context of retailing and how fair comparisons are with General Motors in the mid-20th century, which helped set a higher standard by...
...BlackRock used its 2009 purchase of the iShares ETF business from Barclays — an acquisition which has been described as the asset management industry’s “deal of the century” — to build a dominant position...
...One is in the mid-20th century, when scientists and environmental activists created campaigning movements such as Greenpeace....
...pay the same tax as small local companies....
...“The hardest thing to do was marry the protected facades with the interior floors and halls.”v The residences open in mid-September, the culmination of years of work at Lamela’s company....
...She was previously co-chair of Quinn Emanuel’s insurance and reinsurance litigation group....
...Our insurance company wrote to say we would no longer be covered. The woman who looked after my 88-year-old mother told me she was going to leave....
...It was an investment from financial group Brookfield, which leased the building whole, paying nearly a century of rent in advance....
...US technology company Salesforce.com has bought “blue carbon” from Worldview International Foundation’s mangrove restoration projects in Myanmar; in Cambodia, the Wildlife Conservation Society has sold credits...
...Rodney Cook has quit as chief executive of Just Group after a turbulent year for the life insurance company....
...The Arnault family, owner of luxury group LVMH, pledged €200m to help with the restoration efforts, while the Pinaults, who control luxury conglomerate Kering and family holding company Artemis, promised...
...Mid-level jobs in manufacturing and multinational companies are disappearing and being replaced by technology and financial services roles, which are easier to fill with younger, more affordable migrants...
...But the fact Apple investors are starting to think of services as insurance against plateauing iPhone sales is a reminder of the third rule for one-product companies: make sure your investors believe the...
...He was arrested in his mid-twenties for dealing heroin and sent to a treatment programme....
...It is time for tighter controls, says Alba Arboleda, a California-born technology consultant who moved to British Columbia in the mid-1990s....
...For sale: desirable mid-20th century mountain residence, central Switzerland (underground)....
...Between the late 18th century and 1824, more than 60 canal companies debuted on the London Stock Exchange, “raising the equivalent of $32bn in today’s money”. By 1792, float turned to frenzy....
...Others are more frivolous: Yasuda Kasai, the Japanese insurance company, paying $40m for Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in 1987; and Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian’s 2015 purchase of a Modigliani painting for $170m...
...The number rose rapidly in the mid-1990s to reach a peak of about 5 per cent of the workforce in 1995, before declining....
...Robert Williams in Paris To judge by fairly recent lunchtime developments, you might think that Parisians have succumbed to the 21st century trend of grab-and-go in the Anglo-Saxon mode....
...Daniel Loeb, Sotheby’s largest shareholder with a 9.6 per cent stake, last year mounted a public campaign calling the company “an old master painting in desperate need of restoration”....
...From his sick bed, the 60-year old son of former AIG chief “Hank” Greenberg orchestrated the largest acquisition by an insurance company on record....
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