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...Vickie Sek, chair of Christie’s Jewellery Asia, which in May sold a jadeite bead necklace for more than HK$69mn, said there had been “more and more” interest in high-quality jadeite pieces, buoyed by an...
...Nashville-based company Hemphill Brothers has started to rent out its fleet of buses that would otherwise be in use on major stars’ tours. Britain’s laws and lanes don’t favour American excess....
...Among those affected is Vickie Liu, an undergraduate student....
...“The stakes are enormous,” said Scott Hemphill, a law professor specialising in antitrust and regulation at New York University....
...As a chief executive who specialises in break-ups (he has done the same thing elsewhere) — and one who will be looking for a new job later this year — one might expect Mr Hemphill to preach the gospel of...
...Mr Hemphill has spent two years breaking up the financial services conglomerate, a process that will be complete next week. He will be out of a job when all the loose ends are tied up....
...“These are far more complex legal cases,” says Vickie Patton, general counsel at the Environmental Defense Fund, a non-profit organisation....
...Vickie Lui, 39, the spokeswoman for the Progressive Lawyers Group, a group of lawyers committed to upholding democracy and the rule of law in Hong Kong, attended an elite international school and grew up...
...“We always knew it would be a difficult thing to do. There is no template for it.” The US asset management business has been sold, as has a part of the UK asset management business....
...In unpicking this botched job, boss Bruce Hemphill hopes to release some value....
...This is a tremendous achievement, which has gone hand in hand with strengthening the underlying businesses....
...Despite facing what it described as “challenging macroeconomic conditions” in its largest market of South Africa during 2017, “with weakness in consumer and business confidence creating a tough environment...
...reported by Sky News and is expected to be announced within days, was triggered by the wider break up of the £9bn Old Mutual financial services group, announced last year by group chief executive Bruce Hemphill...
..., eye, heart, brain — and poetic texts from writers such as Audre Lorde, James Baldwin and Essex Hemphill....
...Mr Hemphill’s total pay for 2017 rose 91 per cent. One hopes Mr Buxton receives as warm a send off. matthew.vincent@ft.com...
...This will not be the first time that 54-year-old Mr Hemphill, South African by birth and a lawyer by training, has done himself out of a job by breaking a business up....
...“It is a very challenging macroeconomic situation,” said Mr Hemphill. “Against that backdrop, the business has done very well.” Old Mutual increased its dividend by almost a third to 3.53p per share....
...On Friday, Old Mutual said that it was planning to float two other units – a UK wealth management business and a South Africa-based insurer – after its full year results in 2018....
...Vickie Earle was the first buyer of number 418, moving in shortly after it was finished in 1999....
...It was triggered by the wider break up of the £9bn Old Mutual financial services group, announced last year by group chief executive Bruce Hemphill in a bid to boost investor interest....
...Bruce Hemphill....
...Over the past year the group has reduced its stake in OMAM, a US asset manager, from 66 per cent to 51 per cent. It has also sold a business in Italy and cut debt from £1.3bn to £1bn....
...A week or so after Ralph Mupita tendered his resignation as head of Old Mutual Emerging Markets, Bruce Hemphill, chief executive of the parent group, pocketed £257,110 from the sale of 133,963 shares in...
...The London-listed group is undergoing a four-way break-up under chief executive Bruce Hemphill....
...Vickie Sheriff, director of campaigns at Which?, the consumer group, said on Thursday: “It’s been clear for years that the banks should be working much harder to resolve PPI claims fairly....
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