Hints and tips:
...“Although you can control a museum during your lifetime, it becomes very difficult after you’ve gone, and then there are the considerations of insurance, access and conservation.”...
...“This may not be the right time for the government to go to the market to raise money, as there is so much vulnerability in stock markets,” said V Upadhyay, adjunct professor of economics at the Indian Institute...
...Ecommerce site eBay, cleaning goods manufacturer Clorox, and insurance companies Allstate and MetLife report after Wall Street’s closing bell....
...Covid-19 patients have been treated for free whether or not they hold health insurance....
...“The party propaganda machinery has unwittingly admitted that Xi was responsible for the fiasco,” says Steve Tsang, head of the China Institute at Soas in London....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...I expect Asia to lead the global recovery and the US to recover solidly too....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...Bank shareholders lost money as well, but the survey data from Brown et al found that shareholders did not increase their holdings of cash if they had avoided any haircut on deposits or bonds: The type...
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Others are more frivolous: Yasuda Kasai, the Japanese insurance company, paying $40m for Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in 1987; and Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian’s 2015 purchase of a Modigliani painting for $170m...
...Reclining against some cushions in his spacious central London home, the elder Al-Qattan, now 86, mixes modesty and pride when talking about his success: “I put all my efforts in the company in the beginning...
...I’d set up and capitalise a European debt management agency to create ESBies (the European safe bonds of Brunnermeier et al). I’d set up a eurozone growth capital fund for fast-growing companies....
...Now it’s much more al desko.”...
...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....
...Say, as was suggested to us, by allocating much bigger quotas to those large long-only funds and insurance companies who don’t trade very often....
...The National Institute for Economic and Social Research predicts that the British economy will grow by 3 per cent this year and business investment by 13 per cent as companies become more confident about...
...On if, and by how much, rates will move up, with our emphasis: A recent study done by researchers at the Hong Kong Institute of Monetary Research (Dong He et al 2013) suggests that China’s real “equilibrium...
...companies and pension funds: Life insurance companies are expected to accelerate their foreign investments in search of yield....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...al at a national level....
...Nice idea, but China, the US, Germany, Japan, South Korea et al can probably sleep soundly at the top of the rankings for a bit longer yet....
...Milleniumbcp-Fortis operating entities and Fortis Insurance Company (Asia) Ltd ratings are unaffected by today’s rating actions....
...Sat Paul Parashar, head of the Bahrain Institute of Banking & Finance, says: “What is needed at this stage is greater integration.”...
...Inside Central Asia By Dilip Hiro Overlook Duckworth, £25 For those who still get their “-stans” mixed up, Hiro’s book provides a detailed and nuanced overview of the region of central Asia....
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