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...Pioneered in 1949 by investor Alfred Winslow Jones — seen as the world’s first hedge fund manager — equity long-short funds were designed to “hedge” against overall market fluctuations through their bets...
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...Alfred Lion had begun the label in 1939, recording classic jazz at first, and modern jazz a few years later....
...If we are to take any consolation, he suggests, it is to come from the words of Alfred Tennyson’s poem on Ulysses, as the great warrior and explorer slipped into old age....
...“I would say their current scenario from a financial perspective is dangerous but not life threatening,” says Ross Harvey, analyst at Davy Stockbrokers....
...Additional reporting by Alice Ross in London...
...It was later owned by Robert Ross, Wilde’s former lover and the executor of his will, before departing for the US....
...Under Neil Armfield’s brisk direction, the other actors — principally Charlie Rowe as Wilde’s lover Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas and Cal MacAninch as the dutiful friend (and ex-lover) Robert Ross — all do...
...(Ross Perot, writing to Roger Smith of General Motors, 1985) The open letter to the board is a well-known weapon in the armoury of activist shareholders....
...This is where courses such as the NFL Business Academy at Michigan Ross come in. (The school is named after Stephen Ross, who owns the Miami Dolphins NFL team.)...
...The $29.9bn Pimco Income Fund, which he co-manages with Alfred Murata, rose 4.8 per cent last year, beating 82 per cent of peers, according to Morningstar, the investment rating service....
...Freddie Fox gives Bosie a charm and energy that makes sense of Wilde’s affection, and there is excellent work from Cal MacAninch as Wilde’s devoted friend Robbie Ross....
...It is unusual for setting Buffett’s investment fund in the context of the hedge funds that were then starting to be set up, with the most successful run by Alfred Winslow Jones....
...In the second, several months after his release from prison in 1897, the end of his relationship with Queensberry’s son Lord Alfred Douglas, “Bosie”, when the two were living in Naples....
...Even Aaron Copland’s score for a 1939 documentary, The City (a telling precursor to Koyaanisqatsi, as the music critic Alex Ross has noted), was largely overlooked....
...…continue reading More Money than God by Sebastian Mallaby The first hedge-fund manager, Alfred Winslow Jones, did not go to business school. He did not possess a PhD in quantitative finance....
...This is well-tilled ground but MoMA ends its persuasively revisionist show with a corrective to the corrective: nine small and quietly tender photos by the un-celebrity Judith Joy Ross....
...A chair by Jasper Morrison, luggage by Ross Lovegrove and a pair of waterproof shoes by Zaha Hadid are exhibited alongside a Volvo tail-light and a recycling bin....
...But will future generations be able to consult a reliable archive of today’s most important cultural figures, when what we mostly know of them is their joshing with Jonathan Ross, and their semi-sarcastic...
...Ross Sorkin’s vast narrative – “too long to read” was the jokey initial reaction – has surpassed his rivals with its depth, range of reporting and high-quality analysis....
...Writing in 2000, Emrys Westacott, an associate professor of philosophy at Alfred University in New York, questioned the traditional disapproval surrounding gossip – what makes it wrong for me to talk about...
...ART Compiled by Jackie Wullschlager Klimt Edited by Alfred Weidinger Prestel £89, 320 pages FT bookshop price: £71.20 Klimt, painter of gilt-layered excess, has found his monument in this lavish, cased...
...WHY ALFRED BURNED THE CAKES: 1,100 Years of Myth and History by David Horspool Profile ₤15.99, 256 pages Another schoolroom story given the full treatment, restoring Alfred’s claim to the title “great”...
...“We are in an age of apology,” wrote Alfred Brophy in a recent article....
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