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...industry has got ill from the stock market bug it caught a decade ago - and everyone who owns European stocks is feeling their pain. When interest rates dropped in the early 1990s, insurers began to load up on equities at the expense of real estate and their traditional investment mainstay, bonds. For almost a decade, rising stock prices brought substantial rewards, often helping to mask losses in core insurance operations. By the year 2000, European insurers' holdings of stocks collectively exceeded that of bonds. Insurers became the biggest investors in equity markets, alongside banks, holding more than...
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...nostalgic visitors pining for the taste of opium, once the unofficial mainstay of hill-tribe trekking tours, will be disappointed by Ban Lorcha. Instead they are better off taking a turn through Chiang Rai shops for "authentic" hill-tribe opium pipes?made in China. It's the modern way to get the tourist hooked...
Wise words—and not just applicable to matters of career. “All of my roommates are married and have multiple children!” she exclaims towards the end of the conversation. Is the hard-working Hollywood mainstay ready to settle down and start a family? “I would be so happy to have a baby,” she says. “I’m ready. I’m not married yet, but I’ve been with somebody for three and a half years, so who knows...
Matthews recent adoption of an electric guitar on Everday has been misguidedly compared to Bob Dylan’s famous decision to “plug in.”While Dylan’s move was a rejection of the folkie culture that had been his mainstay, while Matthews is merely a broadening of a skillfully used musical palette. Or possibly a bowing down to commercial forces of musical hegemony, depending on how much you like the new material...