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...Baker Tilly secured a $1bn investment led by H&F in February....
...“I don’t want to be in a pissing battle with KKR at the same time we are teaming on other deals,” said David Rubenstein, one of Carlyle’s founders, in an email unearthed during the litigation....
...But investors in H&F’s older fund are hardly losing out in the sale to its new funds....
...David Penna has rejoined the law firm Latham & Watkins in Washington, DC and New York as a partner in its finance department....
...Additional reporting by Richard Waters in San Francisco and David Keohane in Paris...
...Advisory groups have called on investors to vote against executive pay proposals and the re-election of chairman David Bonderman....
...It was just a time in my life where I couldn’t take another f***ing drum sound.”...
...We had explained before (F&L, April 8th) that an argument can be made for a causal relationship running from lower Japanese equity prices into stronger yen due to dynamic hedging by foreign holders of Japanese...
...More recently, President Barack Obama gave extensive access to David Remnick of The New Yorker....
...• Property fund managers including Aberdeen, F&C and Legal & General are hoarding more cash in preparation for sudden withdrawals by nervous investors....
...It follows the resignation of previous PineBridge CEO David Jiang in March....
...C Howard Pearce is to chair the new Responsible Investment Advisory Council for F&C Investments from January 2015....
...“We want to create an environment that’s stimulative intellectually,” said David Kabiller, AQR co-founder. “Groupthink’s very dangerous.”...
...●Also joining Jupiter is Robert Siddles, a US small-cap specialist portfolio manager who previously looked after £500m in assets at F&C....
...Mr Bramson, an activist investor, is F&C’s largest shareholder through his hedge fund Sherborne Investors LLC. The stock has almost doubled since he began buying his stake in 2010....
...“Competition is always welcome when it enhances the market or brings liquidity,” says David Rodrigues, head of sales and relationship management at BNP Paribas Securities Services Brazil....
...Reporting by Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, Kate Burgess and David Oakley...
...H&F was said to be seeking at least $4bn last year. Daikin’s purchase of Goodman is the latest example of Japanese corporations snapping up overseas assets....
...Asked to choose between the late David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams and Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, the judges answered: none of the above....
Convertibles offer upside potential and steady income
...Edward Bramson’s intervention in F&C Asset Management through Sherbourne, his investment vehicle, is one recent high profile example....
...However, it has an extra twist, in that the Parkstone team, led by former F&C income fund manager Stephen Dolbear, will use its knowledge of the volatility to decide when to move in and out of cash....
...1996 – Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta 1995 – Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs 1994 – Yassir Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin 1993 – Nelson Mandela, F.W...
...So, if you want an easy life, I’d recommend avoiding the adviser who recommends a unit trust tracker (unless the tracker is from Fidelity, F&C, Scottish Widows or HSBC) and go the ETF route....
...By the early 1900s Lehman was helping corporate American stalwarts Sears, Roebuck and F.W. Woolworth raise capital....
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