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...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...Menopause has risen up employers’ agenda as acceptance grows that once-private issues, such as mental health, have an impact on working life....
...Such a move would lower the threshold of acceptance for a deal to 50.1 per cent....
...Law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has named 32 new partners.* Law firm White & Case has named 42 new partners....
...Job moves Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired a team of five partners from Skadden, including Sven Mickisch, who formerly co-headed its financial institutions group....
...FT Live event: Future of Asset Management Asia The Future of Asset Management Asia is taking place for the first time in-person on 11 May at the Westin Singapore and will bring together Asia’s leading asset...
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Stephanie Biggs as a partner in London, where she will co-lead the firm’s European financial services and funds regulatory team. She joins from Travers Smith....
...These institutional investors had typically divided their assets between stocks and bonds....
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...He is also dying of Parkinson’s disease, so along with reminiscing there is a spiky anticipation in the air about where his assets are heading....
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Willkie Farr & Gallagher have both introduced the new rank in the past few years....
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...For example, this newer document lists Geos LLC, a Russian private company headquartered in Novorossiysk, as the seller....
...Two of Germany’s largest long-only asset managers, holding 1.5 per cent of Deutsche Wohnen between them, also voiced their unease....
...Asset manager Silchester’s objection to the £9.5bn take-private of Wm Morrison covered various bases....
...She sees the business models of financial and energy companies as ripe for disruption as digital wallets and a broad acceptance of electric vehicles take hold....
...The demand for bitcoin reflects its status as a scarce asset and growing acceptance from financial institutions who are worried by central banks expanding their balance sheets, Mr Scaramucci argued, saying...
...Yet some analysts watching the bidding have said the shifting rules, such as the acceptance of bids after a deadline, have raised doubts about the process....
...Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management put in $750m while Ken Griffin’s Citadel added another $2bn. Melvin appeared to reach acceptance quicker than the market by exiting the bet against GameStop....
...She joins the firm’s San Francisco Bay Area office from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in Palo Alto....
...Bearish positions in the card issuer Discover and subprime auto lender Credit Acceptance have also risen. Bank stocks are “as out of favour as you get”, said Mike Mayo, analyst at Wells Fargo....
...“This is not going to be a V-shaped recovery, at best, this is going to be a U-shaped.”...
...asset markets....
...“It’s pretty extraordinary that with this amount of distress you haven’t seen more failures in asset management companies.”...
...Here’s SocGen’s cross-asset desk to say dividends are a lead indicator here: Two weeks ago, we [were] expecting a series of earning downgrades as well as dividend cuts....
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