Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Questions have arisen over the timetable for the Solvency II changes, which were announced in November’s Autumn Statement....
...The Grade II listing means that the new owners will need to redevelop behind the existing, white rendered Edwardian facade....
...The most watched TV programmes last year were England’s quarterfinal against France in the Fifa World Cup, Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and the platinum jubilee celebrations....
...“I used to buy my girlfriend SK-II skincare sets without batting an eye,” he said, referring to the Japanese premium brand whose sets usually cost about $200....
...No matter: A World Restored by Henry Kissinger supplied an early sign of what Thomas Harding calls the publisher’s “remarkable perspicacity”....
...Edwards is one of the best-known news readers at the BBC, helming its coverage of the UK’s most important state and international events, including Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and King Charles III’s coronation...
...Back at the bar, we were swiftly served up warming Tom & Jerrys, an airier take on an eggnog, created originally by bartender Jerry Thomas, known as the father of American mixology, whose 1862 Bar-Tender...
...In 1665, Charles II belatedly made his one-time tutor and valued adviser the first Duke of Newcastle....
...The EU already plans to unwind Mifid II unbundling rules for companies with revenues under €10bn....
...“The liquidity crisis will pass,” said Thomas Simons, a money market economist at Jefferies. “But a credit crisis is coming.”...
...“Rene Russo in The Thomas Crown Affair was the first movie that I ever designed clothes for....
...Thomas, you have played a fine trick.” “It’s rosee,” Thomas says, not ill-pleased. This is a dish that delighted Richard II, and I’ve always wanted to try it....
...Born in Hainault in what is now Belgium, he came to Bavaria as a child to serve as “court dwarf”, but his aptitude for maths and drawing caught the attention of its ruler, Maximilian II Emanuel, who sent...
...Promises to reform the listed market, including fixing the dulling effect on analyst research from Mifid II, need to happen quickly to make London more attractive to tech firms....
...Following a couple of wildly over-the-top Handel productions — Saul with its astoundingly brilliant visuals, Alcina convoluted and unconvincing — the latest of the festival’s Handel directors, Adele Thomas...
...Shevaun Haviland, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said that beyond previously announced pledges to introduce investment zones and to use reform of the Solvency II insurance rules to...
...The great Solvency II dividend has shrunk. Time to get on with better regulation for its own sake — as it always should have been. helen.thomas@ft.com@helentbiz...
...In that book, compiled in Bruges for Count Johann II of Oettingen, Christ and the apostles surround a youth arrayed in velvet and furs....
...Tech bosses have also questioned how much pension fund cash would be freed by Solvency II reforms for alternative asset classes and how much would go towards growth companies....
...He said legislation to pave the way for Solvency II reform was expected to be “delivered essentially over the course of 2023”....
...The task force is working on this area alongside plans by the government to overhaul Solvency II rules to make it easier for UK pension funds to invest in alternative assets....
...Some of the reforms, including changing the EU’s Solvency II regime for insurers and the Mifid II review — would not have been possible on a unilateral basis while Britain was in the EU....
...Cio-Cio-San will be sung alternately by sopranos Karah Son (who studied under the late Mirella Freni) and Gisela Stille; countertenors Evan LeRoy Johnson and Thomas Atkins play the caddish Pinkerton....
...The influence of French Rococo during George II’s reign is apparent in Hogarth’s portrait of the theatre producer David Garrick and his wife Eva-Maria Veigel, with her egg yolk-coloured gown, frilly lace...
...It now hangs dramatically opposite conceptualist photographer Thomas Struth’s “Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II” (2011) in a darkly receding Windsor Castle drawing room — a tour de...
International Edition