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...Investors have been drawn to the relatively high returns on offer from private credit funds, with riskier loans often yielding 14 per cent or more....
...News round-up Odey Asset Management abandons Mayfair headquarters (FT) FTX turns to Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital to sell crypto tokens (FT) GAM starts funding talks with investors after Liontrust bid...
...Nearly four decades ago, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel profiled three precocious members of the Boca Raton Community High School’s computer club....
...Griffin, whose personal fortune Forbes estimated to be around $21bn, has become an avid collector of high-profile artworks....
...But as they bid their final goodbyes, many financiers flocking to greener pastures received one last phone call. It was the Hong Kong authorities, and they had a simple question: “Why?”...
...At least five people bid to buy it, said one person familiar with the deal....
...(Note, though, one of the main similarities: both EG and Asda own a high proportion of the freeholds to their sites....
...A rival trio of Advent, Cinven and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is expected to bid....
...Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration’s “pay tsar”, was called to intervene....
...Netflix bid a reported $20m; Fox Searchlight, which is part of Rupert Murdoch’s 20th Century Fox studio, offered around $16m....
...Kenneth Berliner, Peter J Solomon’s president, recently left to join rival boutique Centerview Partners....
...The rebuffing of the bid made life harder for Aerojet, Mr Thompson added....
...A Dreamliner took off at 12:11pm Pacific time from the airfield at Boeing’s main production plant in Everett, Washington, for the ‘functional test flight’ and returned two hours later.”...
...Mr Idzik left DTZ in 2011 during a takeover bid by its largest shareholder, Saint Georges Participations....
...A deal was reached after a contested three-week bid battle between Getco and Virtu, a rival high-frequency trading firm....
...Only 220 brands successfully acquired domains this way, including British Airways (ba.co.uk) and Virgin Enterprises (v.co.uk). The auctions ran in August and September....
...Mr Hicks and others hearing held in High Court in London....
...In the other auction, for Travel Channel, which is owned by Cox Communications, bids from Providence Equity Partners and others are pushing the expected price towards $800m....
...But Tiger Management, one of the best-known hedge funds of all time, failed to anticipate the 1998 Russian default that marked the beginning of the end for its business, in part because two high-profile...
...But Bank of America chief executive Kenneth D....
...The abundance of cash resulting from booming oil prices has created a new wave of Arab investors in European assets, willing to bid for anything from high-end London real estate to Parisian wax museums....
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