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...Andrew StevensonHertford, Hertfordshire, UK Letter in response to this letter: Politics by focus group taken to a whole new level / From Charles Pugh, London SW10, UK...
...Andrew Stevenson (“Parliament and the citizen both benefit from electronic polling”, Letters, October 28) suggests there should be more use of instant, internet polling....
...Between Daniel O’Connell and Charles Stuart Parnell in the pantheon of 19th-century Irish patriots stands John Mitchel: lawyer, polemicist, newspaper editor and sworn enemy of the British crown....
...Two years later, Charles Schwab, founder of the brokerage giant and once one of San Francisco’s most generous philanthropists, relocated headquarters to Texas in protest at high tax rates and regulations...
...Companies with a joint chief executive and chair are increasingly considering splitting the roles when transitioning to a new CEO, Stevenson said....
...Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, set the tone and his descendants Charles I, Philip II and Philip IV followed in solemnity and in fashion as kings of Spain....
...How about an off-the-shelf decorative ceiling, such as those at Stevensons?...
...Both China Auto Rental, which is listed as CAR in Hong Kong, and Luckin Coffee are chaired by Mr Lu, who also goes by the English name Charles....
...Cult brands such as Stevenson Overall, Buzz Rickson’s and Full Count jeans top the bill. The coffee’s good as well....
...Peel Hunt’s John Stevenson is less confident....
...Their most recent joint enterprise, The Devil Inside (2016), was based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson; this time they have come up with an original narrative....
...For us, just as for Stevenson’s readers, good negative role models are in short supply....
...Among DIY investors, investment platforms including Charles Stanley Direct and AJ Bell report a drop in UK fund buying compared with the same point last year....
...“To some degree, this tightening of discounts reflects the increased use of discount control mechanisms — principally share buybacks — by the funds,” says Charles Cade, head of investment company research...
...The list is rounded out by a who’s who of the hedge fund world, including Israel Englander, Chris Hohn, Dan Loeb, Charles Coleman, David Shaw, John Overdeck and David Siegel....
...“Every little helps,” says Stevenson, “but it’s not as if we’re seeing floods of new buyers.”...
...David Stevenson is an active private investor. He may have interests in the securities mentioned. adventurous@ft.com. Twitter: @advinvestor...
...“Sunac’s disclosure is so poor you don’t know what’s going on,” said GMT Research’s Mr Stevenson. “There are considerable concerns over its financials.”...
...So many, but primarily Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Muriel Spark, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anne Tyler and Carol Shields. Where do you write best? In bed, in the morning....
...• Calpers, the $312bn Californian public pension scheme, has hired Clinton Stevenson as director of its investment management engagement programme....
...“In what ways,” he asks, “did the Union curb or constrain the genius of Burns, Scott or Stevenson?” There are important exceptions to the nationalist literary surge....
...Tom Stevenson, investment director for personal investing at Fidelity International: Recent wobbles in the red-hot technology sector have in part been driven by fears about the Fed’s tentative return to...
...The company’s chief executive officer, former Goldman Sachs trader Charles McGarraugh, said its “ultimate goal” was to establish betting on sports as an asset class....
...Anne Stevenson-Yang of J Capital Research says she believes Alibaba’s GMV may be overstated by up to 50 per cent because of the inclusion of faked orders, while others put it more conservatively at 20-30...
...PANELLISTS: Michael Pettis, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Professor of Finance, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University Anne Stevenson Yang, Co-Founder, Research...
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