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...AEL has been unique in that its chief executive, Anant Bhalla, has built a private equity model within a publicly traded life insurance company....
...It wouldn’t accept insurance or take money from pharmaceutical companies. And it would have its own medical advisory council as an alternative to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...“Woman, life, freedom” has become the battle cry of young men and women in the streets....
...In his new book, Gates reveals he actually divested his direct holdings in oil and gas companies in 2019....
...(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....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Separately, UK retailers warned of “imminent collapse” without more state help....
...(FT) Insurance deal collapses A planned $9bn acquisition of Bermuda reinsurer PartnerRe by France’s Covéa has collapsed....
...Letter in response to this article: Let’s drink to that / From Dr Clark McGinn, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middx, UK...
...I said to him calmly, ‘Al, let’s just continue to work. I don’t want you to say this again’.”...
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...“Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not. In Wisconsin, considerable effort was expended to woo Foxconn — a Taiwan-based company which makes, among other things, roughly half of the world’s iPhones....
...Activists have been urging the insurance sector to steer clear of the Carmichael project in the northern state of Queensland since late last year....
...According to ESP, which compiles sponsorship data, big US insurance brands such as Geico, Allstate and State Farm devote more than half of their annual sponsorship budgets to sports....
...It’s a life — sure, you’re still breathing — but is it a quality of life?”...
...Some farmers, like Home Farm’s Brian and Jennifer Aldridge, have set up family investment companies to control when assets are received, and by whom....
...A second study, Jones et al. (2011), analyzed a treatment for localized prostate cancer (an early stage of prostate cancer with a five-year survival rate on the order of 80 percent)....
...This may be because journalists write differently, of course — but Baker et al believe it is because the US government has become bigger, more complex and more polarised, meaning that election results are...
...I’d set up and capitalise a European debt management agency to create ESBies (the European safe bonds of Brunnermeier et al). I’d set up a eurozone growth capital fund for fast-growing companies....
...The fallout even affected companies with little business in the US, such as Dong Energy, the Danish group that is the world’s leading operator of offshore wind farms, mostly in the North Sea....
...Martin Wolf Business Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built, by Duncan Clark, Ecco, RRP£18.99/$27.99 If Alibaba, the sprawling online retailer, is one of China’s most interesting companies, then Jack Ma...
...He moved to Dubai initially to run Dnata, a travel services and ground handling company that became part of Emirates after the airline began service in 1985....
...… Science by Clive Cookson Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology, by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden, Bantam Press, RRP£20 A weird and wonderful world is brought to life in this...
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