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...They followed the Pinault family of Ch Latour et al, who, in 2013, bought what is now called The Eisele Vineyard from the Araujos, and were so confident of their savoir-faire that they didn’t even impose...
...Sudan conflict: The reckless disregard for life in Sudan is a betrayal of the “revolution” that led to the overthrow of the dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019, argues Africa Editor David Pilling....
...Kate Duguid, US capital markets correspondent A profile of the actress who plays Flo in the Progressive ads by Caity Weaver in New York Times gets at the nature of advertising, the insurance industry and...
...“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...
...Correction: In yesterday’s FirstFT Americas I said the Netherlands would play Argentina on Saturday. The game is on Friday at 2pm ET. Apologies for the error — Gordon....
...Josh Noble reports from the Al Bayt stadium in Qatar....
...(Reuters) What else we’re reading Companies cannot win America’s culture wars US companies have for decades written cheques to politicians on both sides of the political divide to buy access and advance...
...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...
...The decision has led to the legalised bribery that afflicts US politics. Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...It spent most of its life as a straightforward private-equity-backed insurance brokerage firm and expanded quickly through a series of acquisitions....
...Global financial police Like so much else in American life, the new era of financial warfare began on 9/11....
...He insisted there was not “much evidence” that the extension of unemployment insurance as part of his stimulus plan was discouraging work....
...(FT) Volunteering, such as at a vaccination centre, can make one happier, healthier and more satisfied with life. Purpose-seeking companies should take note, writes Pilita Clark....
...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...
...It will stop when we get the right number.” (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....
...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....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...(FT) Business shuns Prince Andrew The Duke of York is losing corporate support for his charitable work, with companies including KPMG and insurance company Aon distancing themselves from the Queen’s second...
...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....
...He was previously chief executive of Barclays Private Bank for Europe, Emea and Monaco. Rodney Cook has quit as chief executive of Just Group after a turbulent year for the life insurance company....
...Could the same happen in New York or Crystal City? “Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not....
...In legal areas where data are hard to come by, the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has created what it says is a “mini-hive mind” of real-life lawyers to assess a dispute....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...Diamond et al estimated that the gains to people who were tenants in San Francisco in 1994, when there was a vote to tighten rent control laws, was $2.9bn between 1995 and 2012....
...Most substance-abuse programmes in America are based on the 12 steps, a method pioneered in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous....
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