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...When South Korean asset manager Mirae pulled the plug on a $5.8bn hotel deal with China’s Anbang in April, it looked like one more casualty of the coronavirus outbreak....
...(FT) UN Security Council meets to discuss Idlib The United Nations Security Council will meet on Thursday to discuss the current situation in the Syrian city of Idlib....
...Exane likes Sampo and Lancashire as the most defensive of the property and casualty insurers....
...James ThorntonThe lawyer defending Mother Earth A member of the bars of New York, California and the Supreme Court of the United States, James Thornton began his career on Wall Street at the massive law...
...“We are well past the point of China just stealing technology and intellectual property. They are innovative in their own right and we need to be prepared to compete.”...
...One thing to start: Bill Ackman, a shareholder in United Technologies, has come out against the proposed merger with Raytheon in a letter to the company’s chief executive, Greg Hayes....
...He believes that the deal will allow Axa to shift from a reliance on life insurance and grab a stronger position in commercial property & casualty insurance....
...He argues that conflict with China would not take place solely in Asia as many planners like to imagine. “The game is probably going to be back in the United States,” he tells me....
...Reinsurers matter because they provide the back-up policies that help property and casualty insurers make payouts to ordinary people when catastrophes hit....
...Property acquisitions overseas — especially by companies that don’t have backgrounds in the property sector — have been off limits this year....
...(Bloomberg) News Round-up SoftBank is said to plan making direct offer for Charter (Bloomberg) SoftBank talks to invest in Uber are dead (CNBC) Blackstone in talks to buy stake in Banco Popular property...
...A January 3 decision by Ford to cancel a $1.6bn Mexican plant was an early casualty of Mr Trump’s protectionist approach....
...In other words, there was no property bubble in Texas....
...country in the history of the United States of America”....
...The merger will create the world’s fifth-largest property and casualty reinsurer, with about two-thirds of the combined company’s $10.7bn annual premium income coming from this line of business....
...Rocky V (1990)....
...“That’s a big carve-out because that will affect a lot of important US corporations that are pretty unhappy to be the casualties of this.”...
...The inquiries also identified 39 properties in Paris and the south of France belonging to Omar Bongo of Gabon and his entourage, as well as 24 properties and 112 bank accounts linked to President Dennis...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Kabbage, a US company that lends to small businesses over the internet, has been collecting large amounts of data about its customers, and plans to use it to offer them tailored products like property-casualty...
...At the South Florida Reception Center, a state prison in Miami, James Jiler encourages incarcerated men to garden....
...Stirling Castle in Scotland has just been lavishly redecorated in the spirit of the Renaissance era of its builder James V (1513-42), evoking the peak of Scottish-European culture a century and a half prior...
...Chartis, the property-casualty insurer; SunAmerica, the life insurer; United Guaranty Corporation, the mortgage insurer; together with other businesses led by International Lease Finance Corporation, the...
...Liam Bailey, head of residential research at Knight Frank, says: “The main casualties of the recent economic turmoil have been the emerging locations – those tipped as the ‘next big thing’ in the late 2000s...
...It was built in the late 1530s for King James V and his French wife Mary of Guise but it is doubtful that they ever lived there together as James died in 1542, leaving Mary to hold court at Stirling alone...
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