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...Buffett takes a firmly hands-off approach to Berkshire’s businesses, but makes an exception for insurance, which spans Geico, the National Indemnity Company, and vast reinsurance operations, including Gen...
...and National Indemnity or the BNSF railroad....
...There were, he said, few deals that offered the kind of transformative impact past takeovers have had, such as its purchases of insurers Geico and National Indemnity or the BNSF railroad....
...Until then, you can reach Sid and I at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, yesterday published details of plans to find £10m of savings, partly cutting some curators’ jobs....
...One mod for GTA V adds an LGBT pride parade to the fictional city of Los Santos, while a forum called The Black Simmer helps black Sims players find clothing, skin tone and hairstyle mods that enable them...
...Slovakia’s ruling coalition could be in danger of breaking up over potential purchases of doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...Portugal is good value for money compared with Spain, says Cristina Santos of agency Engel & Völkers....
...But it is not the only insurance company with a financial interest in sport....
...The float climbed $14bn from the end of 2016, driven largely by a $10.2bn cash payment from American International Group, after Berkshire subsidiary National Indemnity Company agreed to shoulder some of...
...Portugal’s third-largest bank by assets is a recovery play on a badly damaged lender hived out of the corpse of Banco Espírito Santo, a bank which collapsed in 2014....
...Once it may have been easy to dismiss Santo Domingo, the Connecticut-born daughter of Perrier Group chief executive Ronald V Davis and the artist Judy Davis, as yet another socialite engaged in the business...
...In 1980 a company now owned by SSA located the shipwreck’s area....
...The higher this risk, the more today’s equity market value can be explained by the value of the company’s debt....
...Defining the right shape and structure for a company is more of an art than a science. If so, this week has seen plenty of companies struggling with their artistic endeavours....
...“On an ROE basis it is not that attractive initially,” said Shailesh Raikundlia, a banks analyst at Espirito Santo, the Portuguese bank....
...(Financial Times) In response to regulation, Goldman ditching less profitable clients and changing rules for hedge funds (WSJ) Argentina v holdouts: plus ça change (Financial Times) Espírito Santo: the...
...Diamonds and RC Willey Home Furnishings – and one big one for the insurer Geico....
...Rugby started in Colombia in the late fifties and early sixties imported by staff of British oil companies in the Andean country....
...Employers must pay the equivalent of 8 per cent of salaries to a workers’ severance indemnity fund, which maids can claim if they are dismissed....
...After failing to persuade the justices to protect their foreign-made titles from resale in the US in the Kirtsaeng v Wiley case, publishers must instead rethink their international business practices....
...But the company has at least given itself a chance, says Espirito Santo....
...Related links: Portugal v Greece on sovereign risk – FT Alphaville Mind the debt funding gap, banks – FT Alphaville Handy sovereign risk table - FT Alphaville...
...included selling Coca-Cola and Wrigley’s chewing gum 1950 Enrols at Columbia University, where he studies with Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing 1951 Discovering Mr Graham is on the board of Geico...
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