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...The courage of her convictions On a rainy Thanksgiving last November, I found myself in a pink Spanish colonial house in a leafy suburb of Nashville, Tennessee....
...A few hours later, my taxi pulls up to a pink Spanish colonial house in a leafy suburb....
...Ms Ammon joined from Colonial First State. • Kenneth Graversen has moved to PFA, the DKr500bn Danish pension fund manager, as a senior portfolio manager for global equities....
...As the FT reports on Wednesday, Soros is in final talks to buy Dubai Holding’s 4 per cent stake in the Bombay Stock Exchange (still somewhat anachronistically called after the old colonial name for the city...
...The firm is also snapping up merger and restructuring deals by the dozen, including InBev’s $52bn purchase of Anheuser-Busch, Gaz de France’s €44.6bn ($65.6bn) merger with Suez, and the restructuring of Colonial...
...The belted, four-pocket twill cotton “bush jacket”, for example, originally military garb sported by colonial British forces stationed in India and Africa, now appears at Hermès in soft leather, at Michael...
...However, the potential sale of Friends Provident’s 53 per cent stake in Foreign & Colonial, the separately listed asset management group, is proving more difficult at its current value of about £470m....
...for the Spanish real estate group Colonial....
...“The problems of Bear Stearns and general market turbulence have an effect,” said Jeremy Tigue, who manages the £2.6bn Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust. “But there’s also justbeen too many of them....
...Metrovacesa, which was advised by Morgan Stanley and Calyon, is following in the footsteps of Inmobiliaria Colonial, its Barcelona rival, which last year bought Soci?t? Fonci?...
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