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...Shares of companies with large auto-insurance businesses — ones that trade without the protection of Warren Buffett’s imprimatur, at least — have started to reflect those issues....
...“There are a lot of conspiracy theories, which I’ve heard my whole life,” says Janie Hendrix, the adopted daughter of Jimi’s father Al Hendrix following his marriage to her mother in 1966, when she was five...
...Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, companies editor Among many I remember this one, about the rise and fall of entrepreneurs in Xi’s China: She rose from poverty as China prospered....
...What else we’re reading Killing of al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri deals setback to Taliban The assassination of the al-Qaeda leader has revealed Washington’s ability to conduct extensive surveillance and...
...Independent hawkers are in on the fun too: there’s even a new family-owned bakery in town, Buns from Home, that’s dedicated almost entirely to buns — chocolate, coconut, pistachio et al....
...hostilities after Israeli police injured hundreds of Muslim protesters at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque....
...Japanese insurer Tokio Marine has said the insurance policies at the heart of the Greensill Capital collapse may not have been valid, as investors pressed the company to detail its exposure to the lender...
...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....
...The company already operates in 12 countries but now wants to expand across the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia....
...(FT) KKR to buy life insurer Global Atlantic The private equity group is paying $4.4bn for the former life insurance unit of Goldman Sachs....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Chetty et al. (2017) find that there is a 14 years life expectancy gap between top and bottom 1% males in the US, and that this gap has widened since 2001....
...“Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not. In Wisconsin, considerable effort was expended to woo Foxconn — a Taiwan-based company which makes, among other things, roughly half of the world’s iPhones....
...Speculation about his dicey health only rose last week when he gave his most personal address to date about the origins of their marriage....
...Post-closing cock-ups have also popped up recently in the fight between Arconic and hedge fund Elliott as well as a few years ago when Al Jazeera America bought Al Gore’s Current TV....
...This may be because journalists write differently, of course — but Baker et al believe it is because the US government has become bigger, more complex and more polarised, meaning that election results are...
...The ECB and the BoJ, among others, have noted that interest rate cuts and asset purchases can sometimes hurt financial sector profitability (for banks, life insurance companies and pension funds) and that...
...A second study, Jones et al. (2011), analyzed a treatment for localized prostate cancer (an early stage of prostate cancer with a five-year survival rate on the order of 80 percent)....
...Official guidance is required on whether Gareth Bale et al were expressing confidence in the UK’s future as a free trader, or were just better at kicking a ball around....
...company bosses is an unlikely beach read....
...— Recent research by Gorton et . al about the form and role of banks as maturity transformers and creators of “private money” is very relevant to this discussion....
...German factory orders rose 1.4 per cent month-on-month in April – well ahead of expectations of 0.5 per cent....
...of extended warranties, credit life insurance and dealer-installed accessories into contracts.”...
...If you don’t believe us, well, we have charts… First, from the liquidity and flow tracking team of Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou et al at JP Morgan, comes evidence of the greatness of the rotation: Flows into...
...(Wall Street Journal) Sumitomo Life weighing Negara stake: “Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. is among companies preparing to bid for a stake in the life insurance unit of PT Bank Negara Indonesia (BBNI), according...
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