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Clive Cowdery RSS feedCowdery is no Quaker, but Montague has done his best
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When I visited the office of Barclays chairman Marcus Agius recently, he proudly showed me a corridor, the walls of which were covered with portraits of the bank’s founders. Quakers.2009-10-05T06:04:39ZMorgan's praise fires up Vedanta
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Vedanta Resources claimed first place on the Footsie winners' board as Morgan Stanley says the miner's shares could be worth a staggering £68 - even if metal prices hardly rise from their current levels2009-10-01T12:52:11Z£1.86bn deal for Friends but 700,000 are losing out
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Around 700,000 small investors in Friends Provident were today offered much less than half what the shares were worth at flotation eight years ago to sell their holding to insurance tycoon Clive Cowdery2009-08-10T07:14:02ZL&G talks down takeovers
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Legal & General boss Tim Breedon today cast doubt on the wisdom of takeovers in the insurance sector, calling into question the strategy of Clive Cowdery’s Resolution2009-08-04T07:26:03ZFriends’ final Resolution rebuff
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Life assurer Friends Provident today slammed the door on Resolution boss Clive Cowdery and said discussions about a possible tie-up were well and truly over2009-07-27T07:49:12ZPledge to keep Friends divi in takeover plan
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Friends shareholders were told today that Resolution’s takeover plan would pay them a minimum £1500 cash sweetener and preserve their dividend2009-07-20T07:31:57ZSweetener and divi pledge in takeover tilt at Friends
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Friends Provident shareholders told that Resolution’s takeover plan would pay them a minimum £1500 cash sweetener and preserve their dividend2009-07-20T15:13:42ZPac-Man back as Friends Provident snaps at suitor Resolution
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Pac-Man defence returns with a vengeance to the City as hunted insurer Friends Provident turns predator with a bid for Resolution2009-07-17T14:45:30ZProspect of bidding war sparks surge
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Friends Provident shares rallied 10% as hope sparked of a bidding war for the 177-year-old insurer2009-07-13T08:08:14ZResolution bid for Friends Provident rejected
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Clive Cowdery, the zombie fund insurance tycoon who now runs Resolution, had his bid for insurer giant Friends Provident rejected2009-07-13T06:37:57ZCowdery cleared in 'zombie fund' probe
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Clive Cowdery, the zombie fund insurance guru who pocketed £150 million by selling Resolution Life to arch-rival Pearl in 2007, has been cleared of wrongdoing following an investigation by the Financial Services Authority2009-05-08T08:44:59ZWatchdog delay that’s unfair on Resolution
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It is now two months since Resolution shook even the most jaundiced City investors with its announcement that the Financial Services Authority had decided to look again at the year-old deal that saw its previous business of closed life assurance funds being acquired (after a prolonged battle) by Hugh Osmond’s Pearl Group2009-05-06T07:21:46ZPearl steps up battle of the zombies with its float plan
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The City was dubbing it the Battle of the Zombie Kings today after Hugh Osmond’s Pearl Group said it will float on the London stock market, following hard on the heels of his arch-rival Clive Cowdery, who floated his Resolution late last year2009-04-08T08:06:33ZCowdery is facing probe over £5bn sale to Pearl
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Clive Cowdery, the “zombie fund” insurance guru who made £150 million by selling Resolution Life to Pearl last year, is under investigation by the Financial Services Authority2009-03-09T09:24:09ZResolution swoop talk spurs the Pru
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Prudential shares are back in demand, rising 11½p to 296½p today amid mounting speculation its UK insurance business could be the first target of entrepreneur Clive Cowdery's investment vehicle Resolution2009-02-23T09:30:34ZResolution ready to stalk strugglers after raising £600m
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<b>Insurance: </b>A vulture fund set up to prey on weak insurers and fund managers has revealed it has raised £600 million from investors keen to begin the hunt2008-12-05T11:50:22ZAs rates fall, it’s time to take on a little more risk
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Some of the MPC's cut will be passed on in cheaper home loans, but more of it will be sliced off the rates for savers2008-12-04T12:56:22ZCowdery back to raise £1bn for a shake-up of the laggers
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<strong>Insurance:</strong> Clive Cowdery, the vulture-fund investor who shook up the insurance industry, is back with a new venture2008-11-19T09:21:44ZCowdery a candidate to take control of bailed-out bank
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The man who made investors £4.9 billion from zombie insurance funds could be the saviour of the banks' bailout.2008-10-09T08:28:58ZDoes Putin now have Rupert Murdoch in his sights?
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NOW a peace of sorts seems to have broken out between BP and its Russian partners, the talk has turned in Moscow to which Western business partner might next fall foul of the combined business-state machine2008-09-10T09:58:47ZCowdery hires Tiner for £1bn float move
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<strong>Finance: </strong>Clive Cowdery has announced he will float his financial services restructuring firm Resolution on the stock market this year, raising at least £1billion to fund new takeovers and deals2008-09-09T08:21:05ZResolution's Cowdery may yet take helm
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Clive Cowdery, the Resolution boss who last week walked away from his attempted bailout deal for Bradford & Bingley, could still be called upon by shareholders to take over the running of the bank2008-07-04T08:51:06ZBusiness must beware Russian control freaks
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Vladimir Putin is no slouch. So when he says that he advised BP and its Russian billionaire partners not to set up a 50-50 joint venture, you have to think he is on to something2008-06-30T09:38:57ZFrustrated Cowdery walks away from B&B
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B&B shares crash 19% after Clive Cowdery dramatically throws in the towel on his plan to inject £400 million into the company2008-06-27T14:34:54ZCity leans on B&B to look at Cowdery's cash scheme
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Pressure is mounting on Bradford & Bingley to open its books to Clive Cowdery's Resolution2008-06-26T12:45:58ZB&B bidder plans a new lease of life for banking 'zombies'
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<b>PROFILE </b>Maverick financier Clive Cowdery wants the troubles of Britain's second-tier lenders to be the catalyst for a new financial heavyweight. He's been here before2008-06-25T10:45:41ZB&B shares soar as Texas Pacific defends strategy
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Texas Pacific, the US private-equity firm injecting £179 million into Bradford & Bingley, said it sees the deal as part of a wider bid to consolidate smaller UK and European banks2008-06-24T13:14:46ZA principle we must save at B&B
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While most attention in the City is focused on HBOS and whether its £4 billion rights issue will be left with the underwriters, it is in fact the much smaller Bradford & Bingley issue that should be the main centre of concern2008-06-24T08:03:53ZResolution back on buying prowl
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Clive Cowdery is back with what he calls "Resolution the next chapter"2008-05-01T15:18:57ZThere's life here, but not a great deal of hope
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Would you buy a used life policy, or even a new one, from this lot? The mugs at the top of our life assurance companies appear to have hardly a clue what they're doing2008-02-14T08:31:20Z