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...AngloGold Ashanti has announced plans to switch its primary stock market listing to New York, a sign that Wall Street rather than London has become the preferred destination for the world’s biggest gold...
...Similarly, Ashanti and Fante merchants on the Gold Coast expanded legitimate commerce in their territories....
...Private equity firm HarbourVest Partners has hired William Royer as chief compliance officer. Royer previously held the same role at Vanguard Global Advisors....
...Job Moves William Chalmers will join Lloyds Banking Group in June as its new chief financial officer....
...Some of the most impressive passages here are on the landscape, the “breeze-kissed, fertile and misty town” of Aburi, to which her ancestors fled while the Ashanti Empire was at war with the British....
...“The approach is to bring about a change in thinking on the part of large numbers of people on the connection between sanitation and health, education and human dignity,” says Chris Williams, WSSCC’s executive...
...Designers are not just looking for traditional pieces, such as ashanti benches, but for what breaks the mould.”...
...William Tankard, head of precious metals mining at Thomson Reuters GFMS, a consultancy, said the deal was the biggest corporate hedging transaction since AngloGold Ashanti and Barrick unwound their hedge...
...The Akwapim and the neighbouring Ashanti succeeded in spite of misguided efforts at improvement by outsiders....
...“One of the things I’m quite proud of leaving behind,” FitzGerald adds, “is a stronger structure [with the appointment of two deputy directors, Joanna Mackle and Jonathan Williams]....
...Employees of AngloGold Ashanti, Harmony and Gold Fields would benefit from the new pay structure, it said....
...Even if other sub-Saharan African markets were combined, they would still be dwarfed by the JSE, which has 400 listed companies, including multinationals such as MTN, AngloGold Ashanti and British American...
...“The problem is to try the charges right now,” said William Gumede, associate professor at Wits university....
...Sir William Ryrie, who has died at 83, was both a pioneering civil servant at the UK Treasury and the last Briton to hold a top job at the World Bank in Washington....
...Ashanti West is 18, although he looks 10 years older, and has no memory of Barry’s turbulent drug-taking days....
...AngloGold Ashanti, for example, has said it does not expect to be affected by the new taxes because of the agreement it signed with the Ghanaian state in 2004....
...A similar lawsuit against AngloGold Ashanti, AngloGold’s successor company, succeeded in March 2011....
...Randgold is developing Kibali – one of the largest known gold deposits in the Democratic Republic of Congo – in a joint venture with Anglogold Ashanti....
...Bobby Godsell, the former chief executive of AngloGold Ashanti, will be chairman....
...To understand the bonanza enjoyed by Barrick, Newmont and AngloGold Ashanti, all investors have to do is remember one number: 1,600....
...William Tankard, senior analyst at precious metals consultancy GFMS, says investors in primary gold and silver producers are “often looking for a leveraged play” on price increases in the metals and so would...
...Several gold companies, including AngloGold Ashanti and Randgold, have announced they will soon begin gold production. But the news has otherwise been less promising....
...Additional reporting by Javier Blas and William MacNamara...
...Pre-tax profits rose 8 per cent from $3.6bn to $3.9bn, because the 2009 interim figure includes a $1.1bn gain from Anglo’s disposal of its stake in AngloGold Ashanti....
...AngloGold Ashanti, the world’s third-largest gold miner, continued to free itself of its toxic gold hedge book in 2009, a move that helped the company narrow its annual pre-tax loss to R1.17bn ($154m), helped...
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