Hints and tips:
...Vista and GIC declined to comment. In a recent letter to investors, Smith noted that the new flagship fund is on track to be the “largest pool of capital” it has ever raised....
...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...
...But as Steven Kelly of the Yale Program on Financial Stability pointed out to me, Yellen et al will need the goodwill of the big banks should some other bank or banks get into trouble....
...Prosecute fraud, maybe regulate crypto exchanges like casinos, and keep the SEC et al out of it. This is a disagreement about how to cordon off crypto so that when crypto burns, it is controlled....
...Their annual changes tend to lead to the single biggest trading day in the US every year....
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...Unlike hedge fund firms that rely upon a single star manager or a series of big bets, Millennium employs 278 trading teams, diversified across asset classes, investment strategies and geographies....
...A true crisis could develop if Binance et al have significant hidden exposure to declining prices, perhaps through DeFi investments....
...ExxonMobil’s stock market recovery first began when Pfizer et al announced that they had developed a strong slate of anti-Covid vaccines in November 2020....
...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
...By avoiding the distribution of realised capital gains, the average ETF has had a tax burden 0.92 percentage points lower than that of the typical mutual fund over the past five years, Moussawi et al found...
...A macroprudential-bulletin by ECB staff (Adachi et al, May 2020), noted that Libra could become a US$3tn collateral silo. Another alternative exists....
...YPF claims account for $773m, or 38 per cent of Burford’s capital provision assets, and 53 per cent of the “capital provision income”....
...to assert their flailing authority over an increasingly troubled asset....
...London Stock Exchange has hired Murray Roos as group director for capital markets and a member of its executive committee....
...pools of assets”....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...As Copeland et al noted in 2015: A complete unwind of all repos, and not merely of those maturing, is an operationally simple process....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...When last seen on the front pages, circa 2013, Mr Cohen’s hedge fund — SAC Capital, SAC being his initials — was pleading guilty to insider trading charges and agreeing to pay $1.8bn in fines to the US government...
...chart from Cap Econ attempting to summarise China’s current position from a purely economic standpoint: And an extra large chart covering RMB promotion from Xi et al from Deutsche for those who can be bothered...
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