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...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...White excitedly shakes hands with Nour al-Harmoodi and Noura Kahil, who both work for Abu Dhabi’s department of culture and tourism. White immediately apologises for touching them....
...Edward White in Seoul 76....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Smart reads Under surveillance When US insurance tycoon Greg Lindberg was swept up in several state and federal probes over a potential bribe, he had something else on his mind: the whereabouts of a number...
...When a consortium led by Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan bought the club in 2008, City were said to be so broke that the groundsman didn’t have enough white paint to draw the lines on the...
...Activists have been urging the insurance sector to steer clear of the Carmichael project in the northern state of Queensland since late last year....
...“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....
...Iran and Russia back the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey has called for him to be ousted and has supported Syrian rebels....
...The deal marks the largest single investment ever in a start-up company....
...From “activist investors” to investment banks, from management consultants to asset managers, from high-frequency traders to insurance companies, today, financiers dictate terms to American business, rather...
...Joyce et al do not go as far as to state that there’s no link between the Bank’s QE programme and the fact that UK stocks have all but doubled since the depths of the crisis....
...In “US vs One Michael Jackson Signed Thriller Jacket” and “US v One White Crystal-Covered ‘Bad Tour’ Glove”, contested by the family, it is attempting to recover more than $70m, including Michael Jackson...
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...From Pakistan to Yemen, the al-Qaeda operatives who remain are scrambling, knowing that they can’t escape the reach of the United States of America....
...Marx is singing in his grave there in London as the US government now controls the auto, mortgage, insurance, banking, et al industries and he has not fired a shot....
...In 2007, when MBIA et al were still considered bullet-proof (at least as far the other rating agencies were concerned), founder Sean Egan projected massive losses for the monoline monoliths – rightly, as...
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
...People had not expected the White House to get so tough. Traders hit the political alarm bell....
...However, with a huge economic exposure to GM, the Obama administration may decide – as it did with AIG, the insurance group – that an outsider should take the helm....
...Because Jim Crow laws were overturned, black CEOs today run Fortune 500 companies....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Heading BNP since shortly before it was privatised in 1993 gives him an insight into the role the state should play....
...Liberty is a mutual company owned by its policy holders....
...That’s one of the times I suffered; that, taking on the gun lobby, trying to pass healthcare and making all the insurance companies… I carried a lot of arrows in my back in the ’94 election....
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