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...Future of Asset Management North America Hosted by the Financial Times, in collaboration with Ignites and FundFire, Future of Asset Management North America is taking place on September 27-28 at etc.venues...
...Danish authorities would target tankers transiting the Danish straits without western insurance, people with knowledge of talks told the Financial Times....
...But hospitals, insurance companies and others are creating roles to navigate and harness the disruptive technology, The New York Times writes....
...“Not a single one of the clients who are in these funds would pay these rates for any other type of insurance, certainly not term [life] insurance,” she points out....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...This week, the Securities and Exchange Commission has ruled against Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, meaning the patent fight will go before shareholders for a vote at the companies’ annual meetings....
...It fell to her eldest daughter, the writer and novelist Doon Arbus, to deal with her still-emergent work as a pioneering photographer of postwar America....
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...insurance executive, speaking on condition of anonymity....
...IBM, Netflix, Johnson & Johnson and Philip Morris were among the companies to warn last week that the strengthening dollar could weaken revenues in the coming months....
...At the gathering of nearly 300 people, White cited one of his company’s eight tenets: “Be first”. (There’s one for each side of the octagon.)...
...Several of the worst-performing companies in the index, including Hippo and Root, focus on personal lines of insurance such as home and auto....
...Guyana was a champion of climate action until Exxon discovered oil. (NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), the C$400bn global investment group, told my colleague Josephine Cumbo that the UK stood out because of its “pro business” stance....
...The results are similar to those from other Covid-19 vaccines made by BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, which have all shown varying degrees of efficacy against symptomatic Covid-19 in trials...
...Speaking to S&P Global Platts last month, Rusal America chief Brian Hesse said the home improvement company Lowe’s had started asking for the carbon content in ladders....
...While more than a third of companies in Europe (40 per cent in the UK) reported experiencing a significant increase in ESG questions over the past year, in North America that figure was just 10 per cent....
...He insisted there was not “much evidence” that the extension of unemployment insurance as part of his stimulus plan was discouraging work....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...The pandemic hit corporate America after years of rising share prices, record profits and unprecedented levels of borrowing....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...(Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson) Climate change inflation: higher insurance costs for businesses and homeowners The cost of climate change is coursing through the global insurance market, and Australia is reckoning...
...possible sale of the retailer’s banking unit, which provides products including mortgages, credit cards and insurance to more than 2m customers....
...The company already operates in 12 countries but now wants to expand across the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia....
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