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...Ambassador to Peru 2007-10 Franklin KramerFormer Assistant Secretary of Defense for International SecurityAffairs, Distinguished Fellow and Board Director at the Atlantic Council Laurence H TribeCarl M Loeb...
...There’s a lot of companies in the double-B category that were downgrades from triple-B. They’re better companies. It’s a different high-yield than, say, 10 years ago ....
...It is of course triple-B-minus or Baa3. And our chart of corporate bond spreads over Treasuries mistakenly showed triple-B and single-B yields instead of spreads....
...Third Point, the hedge fund led by Daniel Loeb, also shed some of its largest tech investments....
...Over the years, Louis B....
...Mr Loeb told his fund’s clients several weeks ago that he had maintained his exposure to stocks as election day loomed....
...Fine, okay. 10:30am GMT - Good news for Daniel Loeb’s Third Point. Prudential, the least imaginative activist target in history, is rallying a bit....
...Dan Loeb will be pleased. The activist behind hedge fund Third Point has been pressuring Nestlé to sell its noncore divisions which included skin health and frozen foods....
...Dan Loeb’s Third Point has a stake in Nestlé and Nelson Peltz’s Trian had a chunky stake in Procter & Gamble....
...In high school, he started a skateboard company called “B Industries”....
...There were also costs associated in extracting H&B from shared functions with Nature’s Bounty, including IT services....
...Mr Gardell is particularly vexed by the system of A and B shares in Sweden, which gives owners of A shares a bigger share of voting rights....
...b) “May I valet park your car/yacht/spouse, sir?” c) “Another day, another $4.7m, eh?” d) “How is Panama at this time of year?”...
...ValueAct, which has a 5.9 per cent stake in Fox’s non-voting B shares, agreed to keep its holding in the media group below 7 per cent as part of a deal for a board seat....
...In August of this year, Dan Loeb settled a dispute with the Federal Trade Commission related to his failure to submit a Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust filing, which had been required before he took a large...
...Chinese demand rose by 295,000 b/d, the weakest in at least six years.”...
...Domenico De Sole, co-founder and chairman of luxury retailer Tom Ford International and Gucci’s former chief, has started as lead independent director, replacing Steven B Dodge, who remains a director, Sotheby...
...Artsy has closed an $18.5m Series B funding round, part of which will help develop a new Android app....
...Another Cohen piece, Gerhard Richter’s “A.B. Courbet”, was sold for $26.5m after a fierce telephone bidding war between two collectors from the UK and Mexico....
...David Witt, the man behind the proposal is no activist rabble-rouser like Carl Icahn or Daniel Loeb, nor one of those nuisances who pop up with hobby-horse resolutions at company after company....
...Loeb vs Sotheby’s. Peltz vs Pepsi. Ackman vs HerbAllerMae. Icahn vs… the limits of his own intensity. Activists are getting busier. They’re not always a likeable bunch. Sometimes they’re jerks....
...From an old New Yorker story on Daniel Loeb: Loeb’s favored device is the scolding letter, formally addressed, publicly released, and ruthlessly frank in its assessments of managerial competence....
...Loeb, Howard Ripley, Tanners and the Wine Society....
...Tanners. 12 per cent Stift Göttweig, Göttweiger Berg Riesling 2006 Kremstal Lots of density and richness, so big it will need careful food matching but lovely smoke and spices. 12.5per cent £12.92 OW Loeb...
...- We welcome hedge fund bad boy and master of the poison pen Daniel Loeb to Blighty on news of his plans to list a fund here. - A-b Global has rather tardily confirmed a takeover approach....
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