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...Gains for companies such as insurance group Skyward Specialty and biotech company Rayzebio more than offset losses for high profile tech flops like Instacart....
...“It has become a bigger company and this could create the perception that it needs more insurance,” said Kevin Lacroix, an attorney and executive vice-president at RT ProExec, a unit of RT Specialty, an...
...Based on our revised forecasts, Hikma trades on a 2021E P/E of 16.6x, a 26% discount to its UK specialty peers....
...On the mortgage market, while the group views affordability levels as good, the qualification hurdles have become slightly challenging since the onset of pandemic with the removal of 90%/95% LTV products...
...While a few of Pershing Square’s investments — ADP, Chipotle and Platform Specialty Products — are up on the year overall, each of the fund’s main holdings are down this month....
...Alex Humphreys, a partner at Apollo, said: “We look forward to working with Aspen to build on the existing high quality specialty insurance and reinsurance business and we aim to leverage Apollo’s resources...
...Charles Shaver will become the chief executive of Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals once Carlyle and GIC complete the deal to buy the unit, Carlyle said in a press release....
...AkzoNobel has also put its specialty chemicals unit up for sale, and Sanofi is selling a drug unit. Both auctions have attracted interest from private equity....
...(later renamed AVINTIV Specialty Materials Inc).Julie A. Hill, owner of The Hill Company....
...Akzo Nobel’s specialty chemicals unit is also for sale, with a price expected at about €9bn....
...Under its alternative proposal, the specialty products company would have four separate business divisions — electronic specialities; nutrition and biosciences; specialty materials; and silicones — each...
...It is intended to be split within 18 months into three companies: one in plastics and related materials, one in agricultural chemicals and seeds, and one in other specialty chemicals....
...The Paulson Advantage fund, through which he placed the bet against US subprime mortgages that made him famous during the credit crisis, no longer has significant outside investors....
...The move arrives amid turmoil in the specialty sports retailers space as consumers increasingly shop online and buy directly from brands like Nike and Under Armour....
...In its 130-year history it has dominated, at different points, both catalogue and store retail, as well as building major franchises in insurance, financial services and specialty retail....
...One likely explanation for the divergence from historical norms is that the post-crisis plunge in mortgage rates encouraged those who still had positive home equity to refinance and keep spending on new...
...Chicago-based Argon Credit LLC co-founder and CEO Raviv Wolfe said in a bankruptcy court declaration that “liquidity issues” caused the company, which offers 12- to 60-month loans in amounts ranging from...
...I had a huge mortgage,” he explains. “I did what I had to do.” North Sea cod are especially vulnerable because they are part of a mixed fishery....
...He likens his vision for Vevo to that of a specialty record store, in contrast to YouTube that is a “one size fits all supermarket”....
...Part of Mr Paulson’s current strategy is focusing on specialty pharmaceutical companies that may be takeover targets....
...We prepared Chinese traditional food like Jiaozi (dumplings) and everyone brought their national specialties: we feasted on lasagna, salads and drank various wines, all topped off with Indian and Danish...
...In 2013, Ocado bought them some time by agreeing a deal to fulfil deliveries for Wm Morrison, a struggling UK supermarket chain....
...The companies will include a leading global pure-play Agriculture company; a leading global pure-play Material Science company; and a leading technology and innovation-driven Specialty Products company....
...In June, OM agreed to sell itself to Apollo and its partner Platform Specialty Products for $34 per share (about $1bn in total)....
...and Australian mortgages, and about $30bn of real estate assets, made jointly with Blackstone....
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