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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...
...In one instance, a company called KiliAvo Fresh was awarded a licence for a 180-acre avocado farm on land bought from the Maasai....
...AEL has been unique in that its chief executive, Anant Bhalla, has built a private equity model within a publicly traded life insurance company....
...“I’m not sure if the kind of changes taking place in college football are of that much concern to the NFL”, said Victoria Jackson, a sports historian at Arizona State University....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...(FT) Insurance deal collapses A planned $9bn acquisition of Bermuda reinsurer PartnerRe by France’s Covéa has collapsed....
...Her opening show is of about a dozen works by Ayana V Jackson, who questions the colonial gaze in the history of photography (works priced between $15,000 and $25,000)....
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...Here’s Jefferies: Given the current state of capital markets, in our view this is hardly the ideal time to begin an IPO process, especially for a company that provides 5% investment guarantees to customers...
...“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?”...
...Its celebrated alumni — Shackleton and Captain Scott, Wilfred Thesiger, Ranulph Fiennes et al — were typically former public-school boys and army officers, deeply rooted in the establishment and celebrated...
...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)....
...company, “has placed us in the top 10....
...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....
...First, the government would guarantee all deposits, charging risk-based insurance premia....
...Brennan et al went back to survey the participants six months after the move and found not only that they were still unhappy with their new office, but that their team relations had broken down even further...
...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...
...figures including Truman Capote, Flannery O’Connor, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor and Louise Brooks – each representing a facet of the complex social construct Als calls the “white girl”....
...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...
...New China Life to seek $1.6bn in HK IPO New China Life Insurance, the insurer backed by Zurich Financial Services, plans to raise as much as $2.3bn in an initial public offering in Hong Kong and Shanghai...
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