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...The fallen crypto empire courted high-profile investors, including large investment firms Sequoia Capital and Thoma Bravo, pension funds such as Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and hedge fund billionaires...
...Tesla’s tentacles are spreading into Thailand too, with the launch of the Model 3 and Model Y there....
...Thoma Bravo is just one of the blue-chip investors, including Singapore state-owned fund Temasek, Tiger Global and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, whose support helped lend Bankman-Fried’s business empire...
...Unilever is a darling of ESG (environmental, social and governance) funds, and its chief executive Alan Jope threatened near the beginning of his tenure to sell off brands that did not “stand for something...
...Such grand plans jar with the debate over player welfare and an already stuffed global calendar....
...Pensions Investment Research Consultants (Pirc), an adviser to shareholders including the UK’s local authority pension funds, which oversee £300bn in assets, has written to 4,000 listed companies around...
...All the internal candidates that could fill his shoes have left the company, including Alan Davies, the former head of Rio’s energy and minerals division....
...That’s got to come out,” says Alan Bates. One target of anger is Paula Vennells, chief executive from 2012 until last year....
...Mr Lee, the Samsung heir, is also known as Jay Y Lee....
...Private capital long ago woke up to the attractions of the wine business; the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan bought a Canadian winemaker in 2016, while both KKR and TPG tried to buy Sydney-listed Treasury...
...In the same month, Swiss Re, one of Europe’s biggest insurers, announced plans to benchmark its entire $130bn portfolio against ESG indices....
...Similar arguments buttress the Labour party’s plans to bring utilities back into public ownership....
...Alan Rubenstein, chief executive of the Pension Protection Fund, which provides a limited safety net for pensioners if a company runs into trouble, said: “We’re pleased to see that a number of our suggestions...
...Alan Rubenstein, chief executive of the Pension Protection Fund, estimated the cost of absorbing the BHS schemes at £275m. Some pensioners will see their benefits cut by 10 per cent....
...Alan Rubenstein, chief executive of the Pension Protection Fund, made the appeal during a meeting with high-ranking officials from the Pension Regulator last year....
...This group tend to spend on day to day items but pension freedoms may provide a boost to spending....
...Cheyne Capital plans a number of such developments around the UK as part of a fund that invests in social housing. The London-based hedge fund says it is in it for social good....
...A move to put these funds into UK self-invested pension plans (Sipps) helped their popularity, as did the first push of Far Eastern buyers into the fine wine market....
...Alan Clarke, Head of European Fixed Income Strategy, Scotiabank We expect UK GDP growth of around 1.5 per cent year-on-year again next year....
...Purchase plan Mr Chappell became involved in BHS through Paul Sutton, a convicted fraudster who approached Sir Philip’s Arcadia in 2013 about buying the ailing chain....
...In the public sector, there has been a shift away from major projects — such as the cancelled plan for UK identity cards — towards small-scale digitisation and an increased focus on “payment by results”...
...Alan Clarke, head of European fixed income strategy, Scotiabank I expect UK GDP growth to slow from 2.1% y/y during 2016, down to 1.5% y/y on average during 2017. You can look at this two ways....
...The £4.9bn pension fund, which is pooling its assets with the Lancashire County Pension Fund to form a £10bn vehicle, plans to run as much as half of its assets in-house within the next three years....
...John Van Reenen, professor of economics, MIT The current plans remain too optimistic. He will correctly use more flexibility to expand investment from current plans....
...Dave Lewis, the Tesco chief executive, wanted to buy shares in the supermarket when he was embarking on its turnround plan, following last year’s accounting scandal....
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