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...These include Sir John Griffin, founder of taxi company Addison Lee, who is given a knighthood for services to business and charity....
...A different type of mess is now surrounding Lincoln National Corp, the Radnor, Pennsylvania-based insurance company that lends the stadium its name....
...side effects, leaving national governments on the hook instead....
...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
...Key economic and company reports Here is a more complete list of what to expect in terms of company reports and economic data this week....
...“Insurance and grain futures were once distrusted concepts that evolved into the important risk-management tools we know today....
...JAB has acquired stakes in two companies from Fairfax, taking over its interests in Crum & Forster Pet Insurance Group and Pethealth in a deal announced on Monday....
...For a cash-strapped theatre company they can represent a vital revenue stream....
...AI is giving underwriters godlike powers, according to the president of Sompo Holdings, one of Japan’s biggest insurance companies....
...Last year, the authorities agreed a deal to sell debt-ridden national airline Air India to conglomerate Tata Group, ending a two-decade hunt for a buyer....
...insurance and dividend taxation from April, and to raise the employment allowance from £4,000 to £5,000.Make UK, the manufacturers’ organisation, called for the national insurance rise to be delayed, warning...
...As ever, send your thoughts, queries and philosophical riddles to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com). Happy reading!...
...The responses point to higher fuel and utility bills, rising National Insurance and business taxes, supply chain disruption and the combination of higher wages and labour shortages....
...Not since the one-child policy has a national strategy touched nearly every individual in China....
...Companies We are deep into earnings season. This week it is the turn of consumer goods companies, drugmakers and motor manufacturers....
...The national insurance rise had already gone through. It had been passed as a health and social care levy, which people broadly bought into at the time....
...While theatre owners and companies welcomed the extra money ploughed into the sector, the Budget announcement did not address the lack of Covid-related insurance for big productions....
...two weeks ago announced a merger with its insurance affiliate, Athene....
...In the news Apollo to merge with Athene Apollo Global Management is to merge with Athene Holding, the life insurance company it created at the height of the financial crisis, transforming the alternative...
...Japanese insurer Tokio Marine has said the insurance policies at the heart of the Greensill Capital collapse may not have been valid, as investors pressed the company to detail its exposure to the lender...
...Lincoln National is down 30 per cent. Michael Falcon, chief executive of Jackson, said that the two deals with Athene “further strengthen our capital position and enhance our ability to grow”....
...Each year, however, Axa, the large French insurance company, tries to explore this question further....
...“This is not KKR becoming an insurance company,” the group’s co-chief operating officer Scott Nuttall, pictured, told investors on Wednesday. He’s right....
...The rebound in macro data, which has given hopes of a V-shaped recovery, could prove to be an illusion and the recovery will slow down.”...
...Briefly Ofgem, the energy regulator, has sharply cut the amount of returns that energy network companies such as National Grid and SSE will be able to make to their investors from next year....
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