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...“We’re building what I think of as the new type of peaker plant,” said Cody Hill, LS Power’s vice-president of energy storage. “This is dispatchable capacity that doesn’t have a smokestack.”...
...The increasing influence of passive investment strategies may also have depleted the number of active fund managers able to support flotations....
...If you don’t have experienced staff . . . then really you need management grip — and by that I mean: why don’t we have managers on residential units who stay there and guide and coach staff and motivate...
...The US giant is buying the company from Doughty Hanson, the London-based private equity group that has owned it since 2001....
...As fund manager, SoftBank will retain roughly 20 per cent of returns over an 8 per cent threshold, a standard construct for operators of private equity vehicles....
...The units are now respectively part of Akzo Nobel and AstraZeneca....
...Analyst Andy Hanson at house broker Zeus Capital believes that the Power Motions Control unit which these acquisitions formed are capable of reporting revenues of £16m and operating profit of £1.7m in 2016...
...One of its most important senior managers is former Hardys and Hansons chief executive Jonathan Webster....
...BBVA and Société Générale are acting as joint lead managers....
...The 3,000-unit project will dwarf anything in the surrounding area. Yet some of the high-end luxury condominium projects are showing signs of weakness....
...Mr Hanson and Mr Doughty started working together at Standard Chartered’s buyout unit in 1985 when the European private equity industry was in its infancy. They spun out Doughty Hanson a decade later....
...The role of the dollar as a unit of account and medium of exchange is indeed likely to be eroded, he agrees....
...The previous year, Doughty Hanson purchased Equity Trust for €350m before merging it with its portfolio company TMF Group....
...Dick Hanson, co-founder of London firm Doughty Hanson, which in the 1990s raised Europe’s largest private equity fund, has a rule that his team should not exceed 30 people, because he wants to know everyone...
...“Taking equity stakes is always the last resort,” says Andy Cumming, managing director of Lloyds’ global business support unit....
...Apax has entered into exclusive negotiations on the final terms of the deal for Orange Suisse, beating rival private equity groups such as EQT, Providence and Doughty Hanson, as well as a bid from Xavier...
...It was not clear what price Ipsos, Synovate’s French rival, would pay for the unit but those close to Doughty Hanson said the private equity fund would be potentially willing to pay up to £600m....
...It holds about 9.6 per cent of the fund manager’s shares – second to Sherborne – and provides about £20bn of funds to F&C....
...Tristan Hanson, manager of asset allocation and strategy at investment manager Ashburton, says it is no accident that the dollar remains the world’s reserve currency, given that the US is still the world...
...“As a manager, I have learned a lot in the past 10 months, particularly when it comes to taking risks,” he says. “My risk appetite has decreased considerably....
...The valuation of Intertrust at about seven times its earnings before interest tax, depreciation and amortisation, is below that of its faster-growing Dutch rival TMF, which was bought by Doughty Hanson last...
...Among the more successful Aim launches in 2003 was Melrose, the shell backed by former managers of Wassall and Hanson. Melrose launched with £4m from the managers and £12m of investors’ money....
...Or you can look at a combination of factors, such as sales by business unit or by length of service, or the success of applicants hired by one particular recruiter,” says Ms Hanson....
...A toned-down version was released for sale in retailers such as Blockbuster and Borders, which helped boost sales to more than 800,000 units....
...But Royal Mail has doubled that threshold, says Ms Hanson....
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