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...The number of black employees at PwC US rose from 6 per cent to 7 per cent, but they accounted for 5 per cent or less of the promotions from associate and senior associate level in the past year....
...In his 44 years in uniform, the four-star officer saw his share of action overseas....
...A survey in 2020 commissioned by Women Who Tech, a non-profit advocacy group, found that 44 per cent of women founders said they had been harassed....
...In the run-up to the conference, essays by Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates and Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase about the case for reforming capitalism to sustain it have been widely shared....
...Funds managed by software will grow to $385bn by 2021, according to Cerulli Associates, more than quadrupling from today’s levels....
...Over the course of 18 months, eight transfers to an antique rug store in Alexandria, Virginia, totalled close to $1m. A men’s clothing story in New York received $850,000....
...Andrew McCollum, a managing director at Greenwich Associates, the US consultancy, estimates that only one in five US institutions currently use ETFs....
...In March, a survey of corporate banking relationships by Greenwich Associates put HSBC’s market penetration at 60 per cent, StanChart’s at 50 per cent and Citi’s at 44 per cent....
...Mr Dearborn is a long-time associate of Mr Ferro, who was chairman of Merge until the IBM sale....
...expected to announce that it will extract just under $1.5bn in synergies from combining UK and South African-listed SAB with its own operations — equivalent to 7 per cent of SAB’s net sales, including associates...
...That momentum has continued in 2015, with inflows of $44.3bn by the end of July, up 12.4 per cent on the same period a year ago....
...Among all mutual funds investing in stocks, one-third are ahead of the market, and the average investor return is 44.5 per cent from the start of 2010 to the end of June this year, Lipper finds....
...Hedge fund managers such as Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital, Mr Einhorn, Dan Loeb of Third Point, as well as Paul Tudor Jones, and Caxton Associates, have reaped big profits....
...“He is waiting to participate in the [strategy] debate,” says an associate. In the meantime, the most frequently cited asset for a potential sale is Activision, maker of the Call of Duty game....
...The most popular trades are equity return swaps, according to a survey by Greenwich Associates last year of 185 hedge funds and institutions....
...Greenwich Associates spoke last week of “strong indications” that many German institutions “will not attempt to rebuild significant equity positions” but will instead rely more on fixed income....
...In fact, 44 per cent of endowments and foundations have actually increased their allocations to hedge funds over the past 12 months....
...Some 85 per cent of institutions surveyed by SEI and Greenwich Associates in November said they planned to maintain or increase their allocations to hedge funds, with only a quarter saying they had liquidated...
...She transitioned to the private sector in May 1999, where she runs an international business consulting firm, The Ballard Group llc....
...Private companies account for 44 per cent of deals, European listed companies for 14 per cent, private financial groups for 14 per cent and London-listed companies just 6 per cent....
...Founder of Zachary Investment Research & Management, LLC., an independent equity research firm based in Miami, Florida....
...Only Nevada, with a 44 per cent drop, fared worse. The outlook for both states is grim....
...DE Shaw, Tudor Investment, Citadel Investment Group, Caxton Associates, SAC Capital Advisors and Pequot Capital Management have all reduced their stakes in solar- power and ethanol producers in the fourth...
...The Ritz-Carlton group has teamed up with developers AGC Partners to build a 44-storey residential tower, scheduled to open in 2008....
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