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...That is an increasingly questionable use of shareholder funds to support such activity.”...
...Letter in response to this article: Economic policy prescriptions have been tested to destruction / From Rod Wood...
...Vik — who is president, chairman and chief executive of the Monaco-based investment fund Sebastian Holdings, a man whose business interests have ranged from insurance, real estate and tech start-ups to the...
...In India, burning biomass such as wood and cow dung at home for cooking and heating is the biggest factor in the country’s 1.1m deaths a year in which air pollution is a contributor....
...“We’ve bet the ranch on offshore wind,” notes Brent Cheshire, the company’s UK country chairman....
...Just $6,000 of lumber later, he’d built a house in Powhatan County, a timber ranch house with a metal roof and stone chimney....
...All seemed relatively calm two years ago when President Obama met President Xi, not long installed as Hu’s successor, for the first time, on a Californian ranch....
...There is a small cattle ranch, vegetable gardens and some ambitious plans to make Merabu an eco-tourism destination....
...The group still hovering over the felt and chips was dwarfed by the vaulted, wood-timbered ceiling, three stories up....
...Thanks, for example, to funding from philanthropists Amy and John Phelan – he an investment fund manager, she a former cheerleader for the Dallas Cowboys – admission is free to all....
...The real saviour in Zimbabwe comes in the unlikely guise of a New York hedge fund manager....
...Then the US-based David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Blue Moon Fund provided $150,000 a year to pay for the first surveys....
...In 1994 I bought the 12,000-acre ranch where I now live with my partner, Bruce Brewer, a population geneticist....
...“As a non-believer in bet-the-ranch, I try to make sure that our strategies and portfolios have a little bit of everything.”...
...For instance, she doesn’t care how much a client spends on a car, boat, plane or ranch. She just hopes they take the time to find the best way to finance the transaction....
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