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...Design Matters Grade II-listed 9 Millbank, minutes from London’s Houses of Parliament, has transformed the former HQ of Imperial Chemical Industries into a collection of grand apartments....
...Awarded royal warrants for oysters and seafood by Queen Victoria, Edward VII and Edward VIII, it was sold to Olaf Hambro in 1942 and is still owned by the banking family....
...With only a single bar and a handful of chairs, The C&G has the feel of a private living room....
...Issues include the implementation of Solvency II reforms, expected to reap rewards in terms of investment....
...the Great Pyramid of Giza (itself visible from the museum’s panoramic windows); the Merneptah Pillar; and, in the soaring atrium, the 3,200-year-old, 83-tonne, 11-metre-high monumental figure of Ramesses II...
...If you can’t make the Royal Albert Hall, this year there are events in location as varied as Great Yarmouth, Derry, Aberystwyth and Dewsbury....
...My style icon is Queen Elizabeth II, God rest her....
...M&G, the UK’s third-biggest listed fund manager by assets, has agreed to buy a £14bn-in-assets adviser platform from insurer Royal London as the newly independent group seeks to tighten its hold on the retail...
...normalised earnings, we think this misses two things: (i) Lufthansa’s revenue exposure to business travellers (c50%) and long haul routes (c50%) likely means a slower recovery than mainly intra-EU peers; and (ii...
...Although the common law banned it it was permissible under the Royal prerogative. But this royal power, however, was abolished in 1640....
...However, the bringing together of fixed and mobile assets is likely to be a less contentious combination (e.g., BT needed to offer no remedies in order to acquire EE)....
...Mr Kulibayev came to western attention when he was revealed as the mystery buyer who in 2007 paid £3m over the list price to buy Sunninghill Park, the royal estate the Queen had given Prince Andrew as a...
...In 1990, the S&P’s biggest stocks were IBM, Exxon, General Electric, Philip Morris and Royal Dutch Petroleum....
...(ii) For the average citizen, I expect them to feel the same as today....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...The Australian royal commission was scathing....
...The Royal Horticultural Society said “the new financial regulations do not seem to have affected interest from our supporters in the financial sector”, noting that M&G Investments had renewed its contract...
...He says: It is “Greater” with a capital “G,” whispers that the fall in energy will cascade into something systemic, something akin to previous crises such as 2008....
...The promise came shortly after regulators retreated from the EU Solvency II capital regime’s penal treatment of illiquid investments such as infrastructure....
...Irish independence and the loss of its West coast ‘treaty ports’ nearly cost Britain the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II....
...GBP20bn for Building Societies) ii) Allocate it in line with existing UK outstanding YE11 loan balances. iii) Assume the new funding is available at 3m libor + half of the current CDS spread (using the...
...JAR Paris Vol II , by Pierre Genet and Joel Arthur Rosenthal, JAR Vol II, RRP$800 In 2003, Rosenthal published the limited edition 10lb-plus JAR Paris....
...I can understand why the posh boys don’t want to do this kind of work in-house, but a commission (Royal or otherwise) would make a lot of sense....
...ii) Larger companies tend to be cash rich and are now generally able to raise funds from non-bank sources....
...But it remains a fact that any job tends to be better than no job and recent business surveys (e.g....
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