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...Frankfurt-based asset manager Deka, which is a top 10 shareholder in Munich Re and a top 20 shareholder in BASF according to data from S&P Global, last year adopted a similar voting policy to ISS....
...Additional reporting by Wenjie Ding in Beijing and Arjun Neil Alim in Berlin...
...Shares in the company, which declined 5.6 per cent on Monday, have fallen more than a third this year, making it the second-worst performer in the S&P 500 and underperforming those of legacy carmakers....
...Commiserations to 2022’s winner Tyler Yarnell, who in 2023 came third last with a portfolio betting on Canadian oil companies — and a short position on Carvana....
...The S&P 500 has started the year up almost 5 per cent, while the Nasdaq 100 is 6 per cent higher since January 1....
...But some remain optimistic about Hargreaves Lansdown ’s prospects. They point to the fact that the company has no debt, is cash generative and its stock is attractive to dividend-seeking investors....
...The FTSE 100 index is up just 2.1 per cent since the start of the year, while the S&P 500 in the US was up 25 per cent by midday on December 28....
...Robinhood’s shares have risen just under 8 per cent this year, leaving them way behind the 19 per cent gain enjoyed by the broad S&P 500 and, at almost $9, far short of the $38 at which the company went...
...The global corporate default total stands at 118 so far this year, nearly double the 2022 total and well above the five-year average of 101, according to S&P Global Ratings....
...China’s CSI 300 index stock index has fallen nearly 9 per cent this year, compared with a 19 per cent rise in the US S&P 500, amid concerns about Beijing’s lack of forceful policy support in response to...
...The S&P 500, for reference, returned 189 per cent in the same period....
...Since the start of last year, he has underperformed a low-cost S&P 500 tracker. Several other of the most-followed copy traders have also started to lag behind after doing well before the pandemic....
...But in the same way that “buying the S&P 500” now means in essence buying US technology companies with some healthcare and financial services names thrown in, these indices give greater weight to certain...
...Goldman Sachs forecasts that spending on buybacks by US S&P 500 companies will this year drop 15 per cent to $808bn and dividends will rise 5 per cent to $628bn as weak earnings growth constrains the total...
...Waitrose is beginning to look a bit shabby compared to M&S. Something clearly needs to change.”...
...Waitrose has lost market share to M&S in recent years, partly since online grocer Ocado swapped to selling M&S products in 2020....
...M&S said its latest store openings would create 3,400 jobs, out of a total headcount of 66,000....
...Any reforms would be introduced gradually and would be expected to place limits on Channel 4’s in-house production, according to the government....
...“Because of the lockdown[s], the economy stagnated, and my family’s financial situation also deteriorated,” said a student at the Tsinghua protest....
...Therefore, to mark the end of 2023, we asked our colleagues to submit their favourite articles published over the past year for a special edition of our daily Further Reading missive (2022’s round-up can...
...Produced by Rosalie Baxter, Bob Haslett, Eade Hemingway, Joanna S Kao, Caroline Nevitt, Ændra Rininsland, Martin Stabe and Irene de la Torre Arenas....
...Additional reporting by Arjun Neil Alim in Beijing...
...In this episode Isabel talks to Navene Alim and Landy Slattery from the UK’s Channel 4 television network, who pioneered the workplace menopause policy in the UK several years ago....
...For 10 years the portable recording studio of Radio 3’s World Routes has been travelling the globe to record on location: these two CDs are only a smattering of what it has heard....
...Leading compensation consultants expect the income of the average chief executive at an S&P 500 company to rise by 10-15 per cent this year, following an 18.5 per cent increase the previous year to $7m....
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