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...FT correspondents Polina Ivanova, Chris Cook and Laura Pitel explain how they uncovered the plot on the FT’s Behind the Money podcast....
...Tim Cook at Apple has publicly backed AR over VR for years. JR: That’s fair....
...“The best public market investors now have to be participating or at least aware of the action in private markets, or else they have a huge blind spot,” said Cutler Cook, managing partner at investment firm...
...Cook made reference to his company’s investments in racial equity, education, affordable housing and supporting the “global response to the pandemic”....
...The industry’s seemingly unstoppable momentum was capped with the news that Goldman Sachs’ top investment banker, Gregg Lemkau, was leaving to help run part of billionaire Michael Dell’s massive investment...
...Alphaville was recently flipping through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data dump from the US Treasury and came across loans for two entities called Delight Holdco I LLC and Delight Holdco II LLC....
...Job moves Linklaters has added two partners to its investment funds practice in New York....
...Conagra said favourable pricing and product mix offset rising transportation costs and increased investments in retail promotional activity....
...Meanwhile, TPL has nominated retired four-star general Don Cook, who has served on six boards of directors....
...“We are not your typical private equity firm,” said Ms Cook. “We are funded with permanent capital and do not have a defined investment horizon like most private equity vehicles....
...Before that, the group was best known for the acquisitions of Club Med, the French holiday operator, a stake in Cirque du Soleil and another in Thomas Cook, the UK holiday group....
...It has scooped up Club Med, the French holiday operator, a stake in Cirque du Soleil and another in Thomas Cook, the UK holiday group. The group has also spent more than $4bn buying insurance assets....
...Mark Zuckerberg put much of his wealth in an investment trust for good causes in a tax efficient way....
...Thomas Cook has meanwhile announced a joint venture with Fosun on China to develop Thomas Cook brands in that market Some ballyhoo around Tech City, and the success of the London IT cluster in creating...
...A question remains over the future of the 144 freeholds that Avenue Capital, GoldenTree and Goldman Sachs bought back last August from a consortium led by Nick Leslau’s Prestbury Investment....
...He has not taken any third party funding, according to Vania Schlogel, chief investment officer with Mr Carter’s RocNation group, and a former executive with private equity firm KKR and Goldman Sachs....
...“It’s happening because the companies emerging from Europe have global potential,” said Simon Cook, the chief executive of DFJ Esprit, the European arm of the DFJ Global Network investment group....
...When Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, announced the Beats deal in May, he said the attraction was as much about the group of people behind Beats as the technology....
...Before that, Noble invested $500m in X2 Resources, the new investment vehicle of Mick Davis, the former head of Xstrata....
...Apple is paying a hefty premium for cool: Beats took a $500m investment from Carlyle in September 2013 that valued the company at more than $1bn....
...Melissa Cook is Founder & Managing Director, African Sunrise Partners LLC. cook@afrsun.com Back to beyondbrics Is Africa’s bond rush too risky?...
...In a telling sign of the times, the Wickr investment was led by Jim Breyer, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist best known for making a killing on Facebook....
...Melissa Cook, CFA, is founder and managing director of Africa Sunrise Partners LLC, an investment advisory and consultancy on Africa....
...The changes would bring the group “closer to the field and with less cooks in the kitchen . . . we want to be the best performer in terms of hotel operator and the most valued one”....
...(Financial Times) “Apple has bought $14 billion of its own shares in the two weeks since reporting financial results that disappointed Wall Street, Chief Executive Tim Cook said in an interview.”...
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