Hints and tips:
...Limited housing stock and high demand has propelled the average home price to C$657,000 (US$487,000) at the end of 2023, up from C$390,000 a decade earlier, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association...
...The new debt comes from private capital firms charging a stiff interest rate of nearly 13 per cent....
...This British CEO has a fleet of private aircraft with the following tailcodes: M-OVIE, M-USIC, M-ISTY, M-INTY and M-CHEM. Who is he?...
...Lex is, therefore, sceptical of reports that a limited secondary sale of shares in OpenAI would value the US start-up at $90bn....
...I felt like I had died and gone to Le Corbusier heaven at the Hôtel Le Corbusier in Marseille....
...the first ever made by a private company....
...with names such as Powerline, Hemlock, Imperial, Salish and St George’s, the latter sharing a name with a posh private boys’ school nearby....
...Even then, Pons conceded, the fund’s appeal may be limited by its focus on low-income communities, which she said means it can’t pursue bumper returns....
...Peerspace and Swimmy are among those looking for a piece of the pool rental pie. Resortpass lets users buy day passes to hotel pools. Many private gyms, now reopened, also have pools....
...February 1; Ahu from $450; Kayaam from $700 including all meals, a daily spa treatment and yoga. thereverie.life Crans Montana, Switzerland 2023 stands to be a bumper year for Six Senses, with openings...
...More from Lex....
...At one point, the amount of fast food being consumed in 3F alarmed Mack, by then CEO, and he limited deliveries to tuna sandwiches and salads....
...These performance-based equity grants — aptly referred to within the company as “Together we go far” awards — are also awarded to other C-suite executives as a way to “motivate and retain our employees”,...
...Private companies disclose little limited information, which is invariably tilted towards the vendor. Insider trading and fraudulent activity are big risks....
...hotel in the Swiss Alps....
...The list of potential Blue Prism suitors is long and includes giants such as Microsoft and SAP. Vista and SS&C though are not in the same league. The latter is already leveraged to three times ebitda....
...The minimum standard is set to rise to a C rating by 2027 and to a B by 2030, a level which around 70 per cent of offices in the capital fall short of, according to Savills....
...She had stints driving for Uber, Ola and a private client, but moved to part-time work with the birth of a daughter in 2020....
...Meetings with intelligence sources are held in hotel rooms and often on the move in cars. Both are awkwardly intimate locations....
...This will support up to 50,000 jobs, attract private sector investment and help capture 20-30 million tonnes of CO2 per year by 2030....
...Brazil probes (FT + Lex)...
...Even so, investors have limited interest. Shares in Barclays bank and energy group BP, for instance, remain stuck at 2016 levels....
...Blue Prism bidding warSS&C Technologies, a US provider of financial services software, has proposed a £1.2bn offer for British robotics software maker Blue Prism, as a bidding war with US private equity...
...As new waves of foreign money rushed into the British capital in the 2010s, Mayfair’s luxury hotels, private clubs and more garish restaurants began to resemble something like the Star Wars cantina for jet-setters...
...Penny pinching is also spreading beyond consumer goods to restaurants and hotels, she adds....
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