Hints and tips:
...French buyout group Ardian has a $19bn secondaries fund and Blackstone was on course to raise about $20bn for its latest such vehicle, chief operating officer Jon Gray said on an earnings call in October...
...Think of Eileen Gray’s E-1027 villa in France (1926-29) or Richard Neutra’s Los Angeles Lovell Health House (1927-29)....
...Doudna said it was “extraordinary” that sickle cell patients such as Victoria Gray, who was treated in the first trial three years ago, have already been “effectively cured of genetic disease”....
...The best gift I’ve given recently is a pre-1910 locket from Gray & Davis, a vintage jewellery shop in New York....
...But Raymond Greaves, head of research at broker FinnCap, is trying to rectify that....
...“It feels like the world is falling apart,” said Raymond Svider, chairman of BC Partners, a €22bn London-based firm whose portfolio companies sell everything from dog food to satellite broadband services...
...Ropes & Gray has hired Tom Alabaster as a partner in London. Tom was formerly at Latham & Watkins....
...Hope for sickle cell Victoria Gray had been ill for all of her 34 years....
...Lenders that are more concentrated on commercial property could feel particular pressure on margins, said Michael Rose, analyst at Raymond James....
...Michael Rose, an analyst at Raymond James, said that given the nature of direct loans to retail businesses, investors were more concerned about banks’ exposure to retail through commercial real estate....
...“It’s definitely going to be a headwind for the sector,” said Michael Rose, analyst at Raymond James....
...We cannot quantify the exact impact from the account opening scandal, but it is definitely adding to expenses compared to a year ago,” said David Long, managing director of equity research at the broker Raymond...
...paying a 43 per cent premium to the bank’s book value, compared with an average premium of only 5 per cent for the biggest US bank deals in the past six years, according to Michael Rose, banking analyst at Raymond...
...Between April and June the median margin among 352 US banks tracked by Raymond James, the financial services group, ticked down again, from 3.49 per cent in the first quarter to 3.45 per cent....
...Allen Gray owns a 19 per cent stake in UGL....
...“Going into the quarter expectations were pretty low,” said Michael Rose, analyst at Raymond James. “It wasn’t as bad as feared. I would certainly not characterise the results as as strong as JPMorgan....
...“You can usually tell how the industry is going to trade based on what the 10-year is doing,” says Steven Schwartz an analyst at Raymond James....
...Getting down to Funkadelic; feasting at Raymond Blanc’s long table; catching some al fresco opera. (I’m not sure where quizzing economist Ha-Joon Chang or philosopher John Gray fit in.)...
...“There’s a disconnect and that creates opportunity for us,” Jon Gray, global head of real estate at Blackstone, said at a conference in San Diego last week....
...Raymond Svider, co-chairman of BC Partners, applauded Altice’s record in cutting costs....
...Barclays and Raymond James both upgraded their views of RSA shares on the back of the appointment....
...Raymond Arenson, executive vice-president of merchandising at Crate and Barrel, which has worked with Bethan Gray, Russell Pinch, Genevieve Bennett and Aaron Probyn, praises these and other British designers...
...Gray’s Inn itself – the original Gray’s Inn – was built in the 13th century and Francis Bacon planted a tree which you can probably still see.”...
...“We are getting people diagnosed with HIV infection earlier and directly into care with our treatment-on-demand policy,” Vincent Gray, Washington’s mayor, said in June....
...Board members included Lee Raymond, then CEO of ExxonMobil; Jamie Houghton, chairman emeritus of Corning Incorporated; Hanna Gray, former president of the University of Chicago; Paul Allaire, then chairman...
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