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...Fisher Landau began collecting art in earnest after a jewellery theft from her New York home in 1969 resulted in a hefty insurance payout....
...In the past year, musicians such as Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, Neil Young and Paul Simon have sold their songwriting catalogues for nine-figure sums....
...UBS Group has poached a group of six technology, media and telecommunications bankers from rival Barclays, according to Bloomberg....
...As a young man in the early 1980s, he ran twice, unsuccessfully, for Congress in Connecticut. In 1983, he founded Aristotle Inc, a technology consultancy that sold voter data to political campaigns....
...How to manage rapid expansion: Alan Ryder, CEO of engineering and environmental group RSK, is ambitious when it comes to acquiring new businesses....
...One of them was a young and ambitious investment banker called Stephen Schwarzman, who had been made a partner at Lehman Brothers that same month....
...Wood is one in a group of prominent growth investors to be knocked off their thrones by the recent tech sell-off, the FT’s Harriet Agnew reports, calling into question the future of an industry powered by...
...the viewer to step up and become a living sculpture – had been roped off for insurance reasons....
...group as fintechs continue to blur the lines between financial services and retail....
...MSCI is expected to generate $224mn in ESG and climate revenue this year, the bank estimated, as hedge funds, companies and insurance groups lap up ESG data....
...Three years ago, an Elliott-led group of senior creditors at Claire’s, the US retailer known for piercing the ears of young girls, took control of the company from Apollo Global Management....
...Janet Young, UOB’s head of group channels and digitisation, said the company was acutely aware of the intensifying competition from tech giants....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 6 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Customers won’t get access to bolt-on services that other advisers commonly provide like tax planning and protection insurance....
...Big data may well improve underwriting, helping insurance companies to make more accurate, cost-effective insurance decisions....
...When the project was launched in September, Hirai tapped a group of young officials to lead on-the-ground operations. He also brought in tech industry executives as advisers....
...Other backers include the venture capital groups Sequoia Capital and Aleph. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Allen & Co led the offering....
...KKR, life insurance and immortality The asset management industry founded by George Roberts and Henry Kravis in the 1970s, pictured below, is only forty years young. But it has an ageing problem....
...My pick so far is Discovery, the South African insurance and financial services group. It has had an American astronaut talk about isolation and an al-Qaeda hostage discuss resilience....
...There his attempts to build a streaming media service didn’t take off but the young executive had made his mark....
...She was previously co-chair of Quinn Emanuel’s insurance and reinsurance litigation group....
...Soon, the company’s advertising department hired a young athlete named OJ Simpson and proclaimed itself “the superstar in rent-a-car”....
...But many football, rugby union and cricket clubs are among those to find their insurance arrangements do not cover pandemics....
...by Ceres, a sustainable business advocacy group....
...Discussions with Anbang, the Chinese insurance group, came to a halt some time before its flashy chairman Wu Xiaohui landed in a Chinese jail....
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