Consider the Odey Continental European Trust, a British unit trust run by Hugh Hendry, who is also a hedge-fund manager.
The 26-year-old suffered shrapnel wounds to the head, neck, arms and chest in an explosion while working with a British unit in Sangin in 2007.
Put together, however, the two studies suggest that British unit trusts' fees are only a bit more expensive, and that was not the real cause of underperformance.
In the economic crisis that followed the quadrupling of the price of oil, the British unit sank deeply into the red while the French operation was only marginally profitable.
And last week the British unit of frozen foods giant Findus started to recall its beef lasagne on advice from its French supplier, Comigel, after tests showed concentrations of horsemeat.
's British newspapers unit, a storm that has led to the closure of the News of the World newspaper, the resignation of several senior executives, lawsuits, multiple investigations, and the abandonment of News Corp.
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That's why reports on Monday that Vodafone was exploring a bid to buy T-Mobile U.K. , the British mobile network unit belonging to Deutsche Telekom , came as little surprise.
Over the course of 13 months, doctors across the UK and Ireland will be asked by the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit every four weeks to report the number of babies they have seen with severe hypernatraemic dehydration.
I'm not aware if the DUP's proposed "Unionist Academy" and "British Cultural and Equality Unit" ever saw the light of day.
They are an all-British and Irish Lions unit after all, as comfortable in the loose as they are destructive in the tight, with the mantle of captaincy now sitting well on Rees' shoulders.
"By linking up computer technology with the science of olfaction, we can speed up the creation of new compounds, and it can take us into areas we've never dreamed of, " says Rahman Ansari, vice president of technical affairs at Quest International, a unit of British chemical giant ICI that developed Este Lauder's blockbuster Tommy Girl.
Prannoy did not have television in his genes--his mother was a teacher and his father the chief executive of the Indian unit of a British company--but since the age of 10 he had been fascinated by elections.
The British-based Messier-Dowty unit of French state-owned firm Snecma, would build the Boeing jet's landing gear, a substantial and expensive part of any aircraft.
Mr Douglas and James Brolan, both British nationals, died when the US military unit they were accompanying came under attack.
The man accused of beheading a British grandmother in Tenerife had been treated in a psychiatric unit in north Wales, it has emerged.
The discovery, reported in The Veterinary Record, the journal of the British Veterinary Association, was made by the veterinary pathology unit at Bristol University.
Unit trusts account for about 13% of the British equity market, which means that, to a significant extent, these managers are the market.
Italian security forces were put on a heightened state of alert following the start of the U.S. and British attacks on Afghanistan, while the government activated a crisis unit to monitor the situation.
But according to the Investment Management Association, the British fund-management industry's trade body, an equity unit trust has to have 80% in equities.
The advance unit contains 700 U.S. troops and 500 British troops.
Jersey's Territorial Army unit wants to recruit more reserve soldiers to fulfil its role within the British Army, according to its new commander.
From the British base, a twin-rotor helicopter ferries U.S. Marines and equipment to Camp Dwyer, another British base that now is also home to the U.S. Marines 24th Expeditionary Unit.
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