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...His father was a foreman in the shipping department of a garment trade company....
...(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....
...Smith & Nephew goes up to “overweight” at Morgan Stanley. A V-shaped recovery in kneecaps isn’t in the price, they say....
...But if you’re a shareholder in a UK life assurance company, you’ll be happy to know that they’ve got a spare £1.5bn in their pockets from early deaths, and there’s likely more where that came from....
...His company is co-developing Pierce Boston, another of the city’s emerging glass towers, with the Chinese company Landsea....
...I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography, by Richard Hell, Ecco, RRP$25.99 New York punk pioneer Hell follows his peer Patti Smith’s Just Kids with his memoir of 1970s East Village low-life,...
...Peter Rabbit has a fling in the Scottish Highlands in the company of a redoubtable relative, Finlay McBurney....
...Seligman, and Julius Bryant, keeper of word and image at the V&A – were congenial, lively company throughout....
...Where Hope and Percier and Fontaine part company most noticeably is in their use of Greek and Roman ornament....
...Among those rumoured to be caught up in the dealings, hotelier De Vere Group was down 5.8 per cent at 564p, nightclub owner Luminar shed 5.3 per cent to 467p and St Jamess Place Capital, the life assurance...
...Prudential, the life assurance company, gained 0.5 per cent to 524¼p after Credit Suisse First Boston raised its price target to 560p from 545p....
...Raising the life assurer from ’underweight’ to ’neutral’, analyst Gordon Aitken said Friends’ could prosper in the new “depolarised” environment for selling life assurance....
...The US flag stands on one side of the fireplace, the Federal Reserve flag on the other, and on the mantelpiece is a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln....
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