Hints and tips:
...Villages in the 8.5km day-school catchment area for Cranbrook School, a non-paying co-ed selective school that takes (paying) boarders from outside the area, remain in demand....
...This year, rising mortgage rates have resulted in falling sales across France....
...Tom Slater, co-manager of Baillie Gifford’s flagship £12.9bn Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, told an investor forum in London last month that it had been a “humbling year” after the group lost more than...
...Professional investors will look at everything and weigh credit versus government bonds and agency mortgages versus high yield and emerging markets....
...Chase Coleman’s hedge fund Tiger Global, Edinburgh-based investment group Baillie Gifford and a group tied to Berkshire Hathaway vice-chair Charlie Munger are among investors with large holdings of Chinese...
...Markets have not been co-operative given the macroeconomic backdrop, but we do not believe in excuses and so will not offer any.”...
...However, the media-shy co-founder of Brevan Howard enjoyed a far better 2022, with his fund finishing the year up around 51 per cent....
...Chase Coleman has shown little interest in changing his stripes....
...“We reduced the duration of the investments in our portfolio,” says Ben Rogoff, co-head of the global technology team at the £19bn asset manager Polar Capital in London....
...He will retire later this month as co-manager of the £16.7bn Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, whose stellar long-term record has made him a cult figure among retail investors....
...Share your ideas with us at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...As always, reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to share your feedback on today’s newsletter. Happy reading!...
...Ethereum co-founder questions economics of rival Solana Joseph Lubin, co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain struck out last week at fast-growing competitor Solana....
...As ever, drop Imani (Imani.Moise@ft.com) or myself (Sid.V@ft.com) your emails with thoughts and suggested topics for coverage. Have a great week!...
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...But the company later became a flashpoint in the #MeToo movement after former employees accused co-founder Mike Cagney of tolerating a culture of sexual harassment....
...The first is that the US only needs a month or two to get back to a V-shaped boom....
...Payment holidays on credit cards, mortgages and rents are also masking the current stress on loan books....
...The US bailout law passed last month throws a lifeline to those Americans forced to skip their mortgage payments....
...If Thomas’s plans take off, British mortgage brokers and estate agents could be heading that way too....
...Here’s Kempen & Co: We, along with a number of others, have long such suggested that a rights issues was becoming more inevitable as Hammerson’s leverage continued to rise and the disposal market dried...
...It’s possible that 389 people not in need of a mortgage looked at the showhome before the lockdown then used the sudden excess of spare time to contemplate the deal....
...The Co-operative Bank is looking for its fifth chief executive in seven years after Liam Coleman said he planned to step down from the lossmaking British lender having helped it to secure a financial rescue...
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...So it has teamed up with the founders of HD Decisions — a search engine for credit cards and loans that it used to co-own — to launch a new mortgage business called Podium....
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