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...Widening the aperture doesn’t help; dividend yields in the past 10 years averaged 1.8 per cent. Buybacks ate their lunch. And no one cared. The vast majority of people still don’t care....
...In fourth-quarter earnings released on Thursday, Brookfield reported a $1.1bn net profit for common shareholders, a 74 per cent increase from the prior year....
...But that may no longer be the case....
...Disney is the latest example of activists rallying behind a common cause....
...But in the frantic weeks leading up to the bankruptcy, no superior rival financing offer had materialised....
...There are some elements of speculation that no regulator can fix. jennifer.hughes@ft.com...
...No degen is safe. These unfortunate souls have already heard knocks on their door. Who will be next?...
...Inbox: The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Stoner Cats 2 LLC (SC2) with conducting an unregistered offering of crypto asset securities in the form of purported non-fungible tokens (NFTs...
...Motor car crashes have instead become so common that they are no longer news....
...It is common for private credit funds to raise $1 of equity from investors for every $2 of assets they buy, allowing them to withstand losses with far less trauma than the average US bank, which levers $1...
...Because in Europe, we don’t even share a common enemy, let alone a shared strategy of how to defend ourselves against them.” In Europe, the D(efence)-word is dirty....
...No wonder....
...European banks If paper losses on bond portfolios were realised they would have caused a 200 basis point hit to the common equity tier 1 ratios — a measure of financial strength — of the largest US lenders...
...“It is like no other real estate cycle we’ve seen in the past.”...
...Datar’s test is available in the UK with prices at various health clinics cited above £1,000....
...A common complaint among users is that tokens are easy to earn but difficult to spend usefully....
...And one invitation: Join La Liga President Javier Tebas, AC Milan’s new owner Gerry Cardinale and more at the FT’s Business of Football Summit, March 1-2....
...The two have about a quarter of their respective $1.35tn and $1tn in assets invested in alternatives, according to data provider and consultancy firm Global SWF....
...to the end of the company life of SVF2 LLC....
...Wingefors bought back the business for a nominal £1....
...With no obvious market price, private assets in the sector are often marked based on the last fundraising round, and some funds have marked down private assets less than public equities....
...Musk’s $43bn bid to take Twitter private is struggling to draw interest from institutions with the financial firepower to pull off such a large deal including Blackstone Group, Vista Equity Partners and Brookfield...
...It’s also no surprise that bankers at rival groups are feeling nervous. Who else will be on the line to show regulators the message has been received loud and clear?...
...Morningstar has removed more than 1,200 “sustainable” funds with a combined $1.4tn in assets from its European sustainable investment list after closely examining disclosures provided to investors such as...
...Oaktree went public in 2012 but remained listed for less than a decade, selling itself to Canadian infrastructure group Brookfield at a near $8bn valuation in 2019....
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