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...His long career in the City of London has included spells as chair of private equity group 3i, insurer Friends Provident, recruitment group Michael Page and Swedish paper producer Cellmark....
...Smart reads Greenwashers beware A quant investor has a novel system for fact-checking corporations eager to flaunt their sustainability efforts, and he can make money trading on his findings....
...It has become the flagship group through which the investment industry demands global corporations act on climate change....
...“The honest corporation, with a purpose and a sense of mission, could become the voice of reason again....
...One mystery here is the identity of the investment consortia buyers, “Gemstone Investment Holding Ltd” and “Allied Cigar Corporation, S.L”....
...The New Zealand Super Fund, Accident Compensation Corporation, Government Superannuation Fund Authority, National Provident Fund and Kiwi Wealth, which collectively manage assets of more than NZ$90bn ($61.6bn...
...“A lot of fund management companies want to keep quiet because, let’s be realistic, a lot of the institutional client base is the same as these corporations....
...Thai corporations and state-owned enterprises have launched a slew of venture capital firms and accelerator programmes in the past year or two....
...A similar system for corporations is also under development at the PBoC’s Credit Reference Centre....
...● Phoenix Group ● Prudential ● QBE European Operations ● RSA Insurance Group ● Scottish Widows Group ● Society of Lloyd’s ● Standard Life ● Unum European Holding Company Additional reporting by...
...Policies such as tax breaks, reduced downpayments and access to housing provident funds for migrant workers are likely to follow next year....
...State-level SOEs – such as PKNS and Johor Corporation which have interests in real estate, plantations and healthcare – remain free to operate as usual....
...A4E is the second-biggest supplier of the government’s £5bn welfare-to-work programme behind the Nasdaq-listed Provident Service Corporation....
...Ingeus, Britain’s biggest provider of work programmes for the unemployed, was sold to a Nasdaq-listed American workforce development company Provident Service Corporation for $225m early last year....
...Moreover, China’s corporations have vast cash reserves and its government has a significant amount of foreign exchange....
...The consortium comprises property developer SP Setia, multinational industrial conglomerate Sime Darby and the Employees’ Provident Fund....
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...In December 2012 it paid £244m to buy The Dental Corporation, a chain of 190 clinics in Australia and New Zealand....
...Aviva had previously been among the UK’s largest writers of bulk annuities, striking a series of deals including a £350m transaction with Friends Provident....
...Resolution was started as an investment group in 2008 and since then has snapped up 25 separate life insurance companies in seven deals, including Friends Provident, most of Axa’s UK life assurance operations...
...Ingeus, which runs the work programme for the Department of Work and Pensions in seven regions in the UK, has been sold to the Nasdaq-listed American workforce development company Provident Service Corporation...
...Other types of investors include Malaysia’s largest pension fund, the Employees’ Provident Fund, which is part of a consortium including Och-Ziff Capital Management paying $1.2bn for a group of 12 hotels...
...It recommended withholding votes for the re-election of directors of Provident Financial, one of the first companies to adopt it. Faced with this nuclear option, Provident backed down....
...Previously, Mr Burden worked as a regional sales manager for Friends Provident International....
...Other wealthy donors who helped Organizing for Action raise $4.9m in its initial fundraising round include Nicola Miner, of Quotidian Corporation in San Francisco, John Goldman, philanthropist, Ercument...
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