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...Payouts for UK partners at Grant Thornton rose by 11 per cent to an average of £644,000 last year despite a slowdown in growth at the mid-tier accounting firm....
...The overall private capital industry rose to more than $10tn in 2021 and data provider Preqin has predicted this will grow to almost $18tn by 2026....
...Later Gypsy Rose Lee, a phenomenally successful burlesque entertainer of the 1930s and ’40s, wore fishnets as costume, as did pin-up Bettie Page in the 1950s....
...Rachel Rose, Valerie Keane, Max Hooper Schneider, Laure Prouvost and David Douard were offered early solo shows. Prices range from €5,000 to €70,000, although some installations reach €100,000 or more....
...department of an old-school publishing house (Gollancz) and then the Evening Standard gossip pages, finally making it in 1988 into the literary editor’s chair at that paper, recently vacated by his friend Valerie...
...The firm has not sought to grow its audit practice as quickly as its mid-tier rivals after significant problems at clients such as collapsed café chain Patisserie Valerie....
...French presidential contender Valérie Pécresse has said people will have to work harder and the government spend less if she wins the April election and deprives Emmanuel Macron of a second term....
...The number of people working in the FRC’s enforcement division rose by more than a fifth to 64 in the year to March....
...Overall the share of inspected audits rated as good or requiring limited improvement rose for the third consecutive year. But the results at those two firms were dubbed “unacceptable.”...
...Grant Thornton’s UK profits rose more than a third to £116mn last year despite regulatory fines for its audits of Patisserie Valerie and Interserve, which both collapsed in 2019....
...As Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at FIT and author of The Red Dress, points out, such symbolism is a double-edged sword....
...Valérie Baudson’s debut year running Europe’s largest asset manager went well....
...“I find it macabre,” Valérie Paumier, founder of the campaigning group Résilience Montagne, told the ecology website Reporterre....
...Overall net income rose 37 per cent in 2021, reaching €1.32bn and ahead of its medium-term targets. Shares in Paris-based Amundi gained more than 4 per cent on Wednesday morning....
...Zemmour rose to prominence on the show before resigning in the autumn to run for election....
...Valérie Baudson’s unit has collected plenty of clients with low-fee ETFs, paving her way to the top job....
...Revenues at the division rose 13 per cent, a significant acceleration compared with the 3 per cent growth recorded the previous year....
...Amundi’s cost-to-income ratio rose to 51.7 per cent in 2020, up 0.8 percentage points on the previous year....
...According to the European Parliament, timber costs have risen 30-60 per cent during the pandemic; and UK government statistics show that material costs rose every month between September 2020 and September...
...Yesterday it was confirmed that producer prices rose at the fastest pace on record....
...Chart du jour: Tout est nickel The cost of nickel, which is used in batteries for electric vehicles, rose by as much as 4 per cent yesterday to a 10-year high of $22,745 a tonne....
...His main political opponents in April’s two-round vote range from the rightwing Valérie Pécresse to extreme-right Eurosceptics Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour....
...Canali tortoiseshell sunglasses, £280 Dior silk twill Toile de Jouy Mitzah scarf, £180 Chaumet white- and rose-gold, tourmaline and diamond Pierre d’Eau brooch, POA Fendi wicker and leather picnic basket...
...The conservative candidate Valérie Pécresse — who is given a chance by opinion polls of becoming France’s first woman president — says Macron has “ruined” the country and “raided the till” for emergency...
...Amundi’s share price rose 3.4 per cent in afternoon trading in Paris while SocGen’s stock inched up 0.5 per cent....
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