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...Letter in response to this newsletter: Africa investment story takes refreshing approach / From Jennifer Pryce, President & CEO, Calvert Impact, Bethesda, MD, US...
US bank does have a bright spot in its services unit
...But while the screen is big, bright and beautiful (and with the blackest of blacks), it’s the kinetic speakers that really impress....
...Yet there are bright spots domestically. One is the proliferation of gyms across UK cities. Wimbledonites now refer to their leafy borough as “Gymbledon”....
...Since the MD and VP titles are almost meaningless, you might think that global co-head is also either a vanity title or a piece of marketing. That’s not quite true....
...Scott’s Ripley is no longer a boyish, bright-eyed opportunist prone to fits of violent passion but more of a calculated, cynical operator....
...The “secondaries” market — of private equity investors buying and selling existing stakes in funds and private equity groups moving assets from older to new funds — was another bright spot....
...Top lot at Sotheby’s was Yoshitomo Nara’s “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight” (2017), reportedly sold by the Hong Kong property tycoon Joseph Lau, for HK$96mn with fees (est HK$80mn-HK$120mn)....
...In Japan’s cities, no matter the hour, one is never far from a bright haven of food and comfort....
...The Brothers Sun, a bright, blazing action-comedy series on Netflix, follows a family of formidable Taiwanese gangsters — and one very sheltered, sweet-natured son....
...So I would love to be all bright sunshine and roses about my business. The reality is that this has been my very worst year in business in seven years....
...The soon-to-be-released 2022 vintage has already been hailed as a bright new chapter in its history....
...But unsurprisingly, Europe was the bright spot. European funds attracted $3.3bn of net new cash into sustainability funds in the fourth quarter....
...Bright orange poppies, California’s protected state flower, dotted the verges....
...When Sotheby’s announced its sales results for 2023 this week, the bright spot came not in the activity for which the auction house founded in 1744 is best known, but in a less public place....
...Budget extended stay hotels emerged as one of the few bright spots for the lodging industry during the pandemic....
...Another bright spot was Japanese equity ETFs, which took in an unusually punchy $3.7bn, mostly from domestic investors. “There is a key structural driver for this,” Chedid said....
...T Rowe’s low-cost active ETF business has been a rare bright spot, with more than $1.4bn in net inflows since the start of 2021....
...The style (a bright image on the left hand side, against a principal colour, with the word Sensations across the packaging and other details in smaller letters) is consistent with the rest of the Sensations...
...“We’ve worked hard to instil a culture of speaking up and transparently bringing forward any issue, no matter the size, so that we can get things right for a bright future....
...As Daniel Aram, MD of the Aram store, says: “Eileen Gray’s work is still sought after because it’s relevant in design and function....
...Self-storage is a bright spot in the troubled $5.6tn commercial real estate (CRE) loan market....
...One intriguing bright spot in the report: investors in active funds seem to be capturing more of the underlying returns than those using passive vehicles....
...But hey, look on the bright side, at least he seems to have actually moved. Not every boss is willing to make that sacrifice. Further reading— The Proxies: A celebration of substantial corporate perks...
...The future appeared bright for Shanghai electric vehicle start-up Aiways when it was founded in 2017....
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