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...side effects, leaving national governments on the hook instead....
...Quigley, at Brewin Dolphin, is also seeing a surge in the number of continental European clients....
...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
..., mining and insurance....
...The cut in national insurance and rise in the national living wage will particularly help those on lower incomes who were hardest hit by the sharp rises in the cost of living, interest rates and rental prices...
...Key economic and company reports Here is a more complete list of what to expect in terms of company reports and economic data this week....
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...AI is giving underwriters godlike powers, according to the president of Sompo Holdings, one of Japan’s biggest insurance companies....
...In the last few decades of the 20th century, big domestic pension funds (such as Railpen, the railways scheme) and the insurance companies that managed them (including Standard Life and Scottish Widows)...
...The marketing dream of a Messi v Ronaldo World Cup final is still alive, at least for the next few hours....
...The dominant theme will be insurance companies, providing further evidence of the damage being done by inflation to the sector, especially motor insurers, as the price of parts and other claims costs rise...
...Plans to scrap a cap on bankers’ bonuses have been labelled a risky political move, but it’s a smaller part of a wider plan to undo proposed increases in national insurance and establish a government target...
...Last year, the authorities agreed a deal to sell debt-ridden national airline Air India to conglomerate Tata Group, ending a two-decade hunt for a buyer....
...insurance and dividend taxation from April, and to raise the employment allowance from £4,000 to £5,000.Make UK, the manufacturers’ organisation, called for the national insurance rise to be delayed, warning...
...insurance....
...As ever, send your thoughts, queries and philosophical riddles to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com). Happy reading!...
...The responses point to higher fuel and utility bills, rising National Insurance and business taxes, supply chain disruption and the combination of higher wages and labour shortages....
...Companies It’s a week of insurance industry earnings reports....
...Not since the one-child policy has a national strategy touched nearly every individual in China....
...At the inaugural home game of the National Hockey League’s Seattle Kraken this October, team co-owner and private equity billionaire David Bonderman looked on as a tribute video showed footage of his undergraduate...
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...The same factors are at work in the UK and continental Europe, though the fiscal numbers are on a lesser scale than in the US....
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