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Britain’s biggest asset manager buys $250mn of bonds in a sign of growing investor interest in debt-for-nature swaps
...And there’s some likeable acting from a game cast, including Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara and the obligatory Samuel L Jackson....
...“For cabinets and beautiful, small side tables, it was a way of making wood look like a jewel,” says L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach....
...Readers of the South Korean writer’s 2016 International Booker Prize-winning novel, The Vegetarian (2007), will surely be reminded of its inward-turning, defiant central character....
...Denise L Ramos, a director on its sustainability committee, has a surprising side gig: chair of the public policy and sustainability committee at Texan oil refiner Phillips 66....
...The declines are a setback for Birkenstock and its private equity owner L Catterton, the firm backed by French luxury fashion house LVMH....
...Mirova manages carbon credit investment pools for companies that buy offsets to reach net zero targets, including a €50mn nature protection fund for telecoms group Orange and a fund of the same size for L’...
...The best-performing battery metal exchange-traded fund available to UK investors this week was the L&G Battery Value-Chain ETF, a mix of miners and battery manufacturers that had annualised returns in the...
...But in Parisian, word reversal has been so standard for decades, or perhaps centuries, that it’s become a dialect unto itself, known as verlan — a word that itself derives from the reversal of “l’envers”...
...City law firms including Stewarts, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner have all been drafted in for claims, and BCLP partner Ravi Nayer is understood to have been hired by L...
...His book, L’Illusion de la Finance Verte, co-authored in 2021 with Alain Grandjean, an economist and member of the government’s advisory council on the climate, was a manifesto proposing that sustainable...
...As they smile for the camera, a few make an “L” sign with their thumb and forefinger....
...The trial will be held away from the public UK, Shortlist for the Booker Prize announced Switzerland, Trinity, a 67mn-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex goes up for auction in Zurich....
...Published in Polish in 2014, it was this dense, sprawling novel, now brought into English by International Booker-winning translator Jennifer Croft, that the Nobel Prize committee dubbed her “magnum opus...
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...Shortlisted for this year’s Booker, A Passage North is an arresting and poignant reflection on the legacy of civil war....
...It had already raked in several awards before the English translation, At Night All Blood Is Black, won the International Booker Prize last week....
...A novel this playful — like an episode of The Twilight Zone co-written by René Descartes and Mel Brooks — would be an unusual contender for the resolutely sober Booker Prize....
...Bryan Lourd, co-chairman of CAA, said he was hopeful that such shifts in the media industry would result in “a better world” for the agency’s clients....
...The L-shaped corner suite has a wraparound terrace and an expanse of twinkling, rippling blue which means that, for my two nights, I barely notice the interior, I just can’t stop looking out....
...In which film did Philip Seymour Hoffman play Lancaster Dodd, a religious leader based on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard?...
...You were Winston Churchill and suddenly you are Mick Jagger or Bryan Ferry, by altering just one detail....
...Charles L. Turner, an industrial film-maker, shot a group of soldiers idling in New York in 1944, and the result is unspeakably moving....
...The book, which was published in English in 2018, won several awards and was shortlisted for last year’s International Man Booker prize....
...He is to art what Bryan Ferry is to music, which is to say one of the nicest people I have ever met. I love the work and I love the person....
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