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...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...Mayhem persists among the US’s property and casualty insurers. Auto-insurance businesses are still losing money....
...Israel is in the midst of preparing for a ground offensive into Gaza that many fear could further stoke tensions in the region....
...On the other side of town in Barlaston, Kate Turner, chief curator at the V&A Wedgwood Collection, has retrieved a leather-bound ceramic pattern book from the company’s archives....
...“The Russians’ strategy is to show it is much more resilient to casualties than Ukraine,” said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Centre for Defence Reforms, a think-tank in Kyiv....
...In his most recent letter to shareholders, Buffett again extolled the virtues of insurance “float” or the premiums that policyholders pay to Berkshire insurance companies such as Geico....
...Until then, you can reach Sid and I at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...casualty....
...and casualties mount....
...Alleghany, a property and casualty insurance and reinsurer, has long been described as a mini-Berkshire Hathaway....
...With his own work off limits in China and recently censored in Hong Kong, Ai is coruscating about western museums such as the Pompidou, Tate and the V&A that have been paid millions by state-owned companies...
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...Top Indian pharmaceutical companies have tie-ins for local production of other globally approved vaccines, like Russia’s Sputnik V, but regulators want local “bridging studies” to gauge their effectiveness...
...The operatives — widely believed by the US government to be part of Russia’s SVR — hacked software from the US company SolarWinds in order to breach government and company email systems....
...According to real estate services and investment company CBRE, prime rents for apartments in Amsterdam fell by 3.3 per cent in the year leading up to the fourth quarter of 2020....
...The companies declined to comment....
...There are other clues that Compass does not see that elusive V-shaped recovery....
...The $760bn-in-assets conglomerate is skewed towards financial companies — it owns large insurance companies, such as Geico, outright and stakes in many of America’s largest banks — and industrials....
...The news is part of a broader campaign from the government to stoke domestic tech champions....
...Stanley Druckenmiller, a former hedge fund manager, said that “the excitement of reopening is allowing a lot of these companies that have been casualties of Covid to come back and come back in force”....
...Speaking at the FT’s Global Boardroom event, he said: “I am not convinced that we are going to have a V-shaped recovery. I think it will be more like a U.”...
...This reflects the strong performance of large tech and healthcare companies of late that happen to dominate the benchmark....
...“PMC is a high-profile casualty of lackadaisical supervision by the RBI,” said Mr Mukherjea. “The question is how many other co-operative banks have been similarly used and abused.”...
...According to data from CB Insights and Willis Towers Watson, between 2012 and the first quarter of 2019, there were 627 deals involving investment in property and casualty insurtech companies....
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