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...He also extended a $30mn loan to a company registered in the name of Epstein’s private pilot. The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet....
...He had been prosecuted after alerting shareholders to a fraud at Equity Funding Corporation of America, an insurance company....
...Building societies that are thought to be in a strong position to pick up smaller competitors such as N&P include Nationwide, the largest mutual, and Yorkshire....
...Mr Guy, who leads Gartmore’s hedge fund division, took his stake when his fellow managers and Hellman & Friedman bought the group in 2006 from Nationwide Mutual, the US financial services group, for £1bn...
...In 1996 NatWest Bank bought Gartmore, then led by Mr Myners, who stayed as chairman until the group was sold to Nationwide Mutual for £1bn in 2000....
...“I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
...In partnership with private equity group Hellman & Friedman, an in-house team acquired the company from Nationwide Mutual and proceeded to shake it up....
...The most recent large deal was that by Hellman & Friedman last May, which bought Gartmore from Nationwide Mutual, the US insurance group, for an estimated £500m....
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