Hints and tips:
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...The promotion of a youthful former Israeli soldier and a veteran insurance executive to lead what is the world’s biggest hedge fund raised eyebrows in the industry....
...However, the real surprise was cutting the universal credit taper to “make work pay” for millions more working families....
...Ross Walker: Maybe....
...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...
...Here’s Peel Hunt on RSA Insurance: We view the recent sell off in the share price as having been overdone....
...Ross Walker, chief UK economist at NatWest Markets: No....
...Is some form of universal income needed to ameliorate these effects?...
...“It is the most undervalued company in Europe and, for us, it is a core holding. I don’t need a cross-border merger to make money....
...Financials the key sector beneficiary: We are Overweight Banks and Insurance from a top-down strategy perspective....
...Best of the rest Who really stands to win from universal basic income? The policy experiment of the moment gets the long-form treatment....
...Ross Walker: Worse....
...Medical errors and hospital infections could undermine gains made under universal coverage....
...At least, that appears to be the view of Wilbur Ross....
...“There is no universal answer to the question “how much is enough?,” says Alistair McQueen, head of savings with Aviva, a pension provider....
...It is now reviewing two health insurance deals worth a combined $85bn. “Promoting continuity at the DoJ is key,” said Diana Moss, president of the American Antitrust Institute....
...online insurance marketplace created through the Affordable Care Act of 2010, otherwise known as “Obamacare”....
...“That’s the problem when you hand out universal bonuses — you’re liable to reward the privileged more than the strugglers,” she says....
...Fiscal sloppiness is universal in the rich world....
...First, the government would guarantee all deposits, charging risk-based insurance premia....
...This will remove over £1bn from the cost of providing motor insurance. We expect the industry to pass on this saving, so motorists see an average saving of £40-50 per year off their insurance bills....
...Improvements in financial technology that allow people to evade the Gesell tax are increases in the velocity of money, V....
...Even in countries often seen as conservative in their choice of company bosses there has been change....
...Appointments booked with the locksmith and the alarm company, and the joy, along with my lovely shiny new iPhone, of a lovely shiny new insurance premium....
...Mr Terry said bank-owned asset management companies will consequently be put at a “material disadvantage” to their independent and insurance-owned rivals....
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