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...“It just aligns one very powerful company with another very powerful company,” said Emily Bell, a journalism professor at Columbia University....
...Australia is trying something new, taking aim at market power rather than intellectual property rights....
...danger to their democracy — or just one more step towards America losing the hallmarks of democracy that we have come to accept over the past 200 years,” asks Nicole Hemmer, a presidential historian at Columbia...
...A 1988 Manhattan property deal changed the course of Mr Barrack’s life....
...“We don’t want a far-flung enterprise where our intellectual property becomes . . . dissipated across a broader base [of industries].”...
...These companies are not so much innovators as “attention merchants”, to borrow a phrase from Columbia University law school professor Tim Wu....
...Mr Brown, who will be based in London from July, joins from Columbia Threadneedle, the US fund house....
...Ms Kavanagh worked for Axa Investment Managers, the French fund house, before moving to the €18bn German property investment manager....
...This means investors will require access to less-liquid asset classes such as infrastructure, property, private equity and direct lending....
...BATS Global Markets, an exchange operator, and MGM Growth Properties, a casino-focused real estate investment trust, have made their market debuts in recent days....
...In 2008, he signed a fiscal convention exempting Qatar state-owned entities from capital gains taxes on property in France....
...“When we filed for our IP (intellectual property protection) and incorporated our LLC (limited liability company) – acronyms that I had barely heard of before then – I realised I had a lot to learn about...
...His first investment was a soft-drinks distributor before focusing on property, teaming up with Peter Guber, the former head of Columbia Pictures, to develop cinemas in areas of south Los Angeles which were...
...Preceding AmTech (now Gleacher & Co.), Mr Schreiner was co-founder/portfolio manager at MS Capital Management, LLC, a Phoenix-based hedge fund....
...The property exchanges are, however, a still-distant prospect. Irex does not plan to launch its first three exchanges for almost two years....
...The C$875m project was highly leveraged in the hope that the units, built on prime waterfront property, would later be sold as luxury homes....
...The group last year bought 14 Wyndham hotel properties from Blackstone for $1.4bn. In addition to the Tropicana casinos, Aztar has three properties in Nevada, Missouri and Indiana....
...Among the biggest sellers were Columbia Sussex Corporation, DiamondRock, and LaSalle Hotel Properties. A string of hotel mergers and acquisitions were announced last year....
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