"High-stake individual disability insurance isn't just a temporary option, but should be part of every player's long-term overall insurance retirement plan," Darras says.
Temple-Inland has repeatedly dismissed the takeover approach as undervalued, and last month the company set up a poison pill aimed at limiting how big of a stake any individual shareholder can own.
Alexandru Ursu's case shows the stakes for individual people.
Although the stakes for individual parties are high, they are not what matters most.
Stanford isn't planning to sell stakes in individual private equity deals.
Chinalco would also have gained substantial stakes in individual mines in several countries.
It is a milestone in China's shift from taking stakes in individual projects to buying corporations that own the projects, analysts said.
Ideally, the funds would eventually take fewer stakes in individual companies, which expose them to the inevitable risks of stockpicking and political pressure.
But Skinner denied the bank would act like the British National Oil Corporation, the state-owned offshore operator in the early days of North Sea hydrocarbons, although, he said, it would take small stakes in individual projects.
In crowdfunding, companies can raise small stakes from individual investors, either by offering their stock at their own Web sites, or through third-party intermediaries, most often a Web site.
Education changes lives, and the present ideologically based meddling, coupled with responsibility-dodging under the guise of offering greater independence and opportunity within a nebulous "big society", will not do when the stakes for individual students and society are so high.
