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...“Cook has taken what Jobs gave him and has built an empire out of this,” Wood said....
...It culminated last week with the sale of a $5bn loan that backed KKR’s purchase of a stake in a healthcare technology company known as Cotiviti....
...“We are not out of the woods yet,” said Tiffany Wilding, managing director at bond investment house Pimco....
...Other asset managers, including Cathie Wood’s Ark, have amended their pending bitcoin ETF applications to copy the BlackRock plan....
...“But there’s also a lot of wood to chop and Walgreens has really just nibbled around the edges so far.”...
...While AB was prevaricating, Cathie Wood took the decision to leave in 2014 and set up Ark Invest, which has since launched a suite of ETFs....
...“These updates follow Apple’s tried and tested formula of delivering new products with metronomic consistency,” said Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight....
...The big worry is the staff and the construction bottlenecks,” said Watson. “It has already held up our plans for opening new pubs....
...The order included 72 separate measures spanning industries from technology and transport to healthcare and banking....
...Cook says she developed her customer focus in previous roles as managing partner of law firm Henry Davis York and then as managing partner for clients at law firm King & Wood Mallesons, where her roles focused...
...“It’s the biggest vaccine programme in history and the logistics are enormous,” said Dr Nigel Watson, chief executive of the Wessex Local Medical Committees....
...“Knock on wood, we haven’t had to use it yet,” she said....
...“The rationale for China to move into a digital currency is clear,” notes Christopher Wood, equity strategy for investment bank Jefferies in Hong Kong....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on September 16 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“I’m not for a minute suggesting that we’re out of the woods . . . [but] I would remind my colleagues there’s no such thing as a free lunch,” he said on Tuesday....
...The group also owns Alliance Healthcare, a wholesale distributor, delivering to hundreds of thousands of pharmacies, doctors and hospitals, and a stake in AmerisourceBergen, the US drug wholesaler....
...Pricing pressure in its pharmacy business — as the NHS, Britain’s state-run healthcare system, has cut the amount it reimburses for prescriptions — and competition in its beauty offering pushed operating...
...Expect Apple to drive home this advantage again and again on Monday, especially as it pushes further into sensitive markets such as healthcare and payments....
...In New York, Ian Woods, the former US head of building products and construction at Jefferies, has been hired as a managing director in the bank’s industrials group....
...It was this statement of corporate social responsibility — crafted decades before the term became overused PR — which he said had guided the world’s largest healthcare company to become a solid, long-term...
...Roy Franklin, a veteran of the oil and gas industry and current chair of both fracking group Cuadrilla and North Sea producer Premier Oil, has been appointed chairman of energy services group Wood....
...“Headwinds for traditional asset managers heading into 2019 have intensified given the weakness in both asset returns and demand,” Keefe, Bruyette & Woods said in its outlook report on the investment industry...
...For example, IBM and Texas Instruments were persuaded to work together on silicon semiconductors by the state, much to the chagrin of IBM chief executive Tom Watson Jr....
...Willis Towers Watson, in its 2017 survey of global attitudes to workplace benefits, noted that 51 per cent of employees in developed economies and 71 per cent of employees in emerging economies used fitness...
...Some credit is due because the “detection happened in a matter of days,” said Matt Palmer of risk advisory group Willis Towers Watson....
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