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...In 2011, Qatar Sports Investments, a state-controlled vehicle, acquired French club Paris Saint-Germain....
...Schonfeld Strategic Advisors’ main fund gained 3 per cent last year, according to investors, while Dmitry Balyasny’s hedge fund Balyasny Asset Management ended the year up 2.7 per cent in its Atlas Enhanced...
...Following the dividend raise, shares in the company closed 2.3 per cent higher on Thursday....
...One big winner was the Newhouse family, who through Advance Magazine Publishers Inc own Condé Nast, which bought Reddit in 2006 for $10mn before spinning it out in 2011....
...Expectations picked up on a three-year horizon, rising to 2.9 per cent from 2.7....
...The total was close to the lowest level in two years, half of its $2.6tn peak and a drop of more than 40 per cent since May....
...Berkshire has since sold a 2 per cent stake for $890mn. Its remaining holding is worth about $2.3bn....
...New York-based KKR says that billions of dollars in equity have been shared between more than 60,000 employees at its portfolio companies since 2011....
...Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 fell 1.4 per cent on Wednesday, its biggest daily drop since late April, while the tech-focused Nasdaq Composite gave up 2.2 per cent in its largest daily drop since February...
...Since May 2, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers have been forced off air by the Hollywood writers strike, which ended this week....
...Voyager intends to pursue recovery from 3AC and is in discussions with the Company’s advisors regarding the legal remedies available....
...The S&P 500 has added 2.5 per cent since Monday, helped by hopes that weaker data will hasten interest rate cuts....
...Getty is an NYSE-listed image library that has a market cap of $2.76bn at pixel time. At $10 a share the stock would be valued at $3.95bn....
...The photo shows both Wey and Nasr flanking Cabraal; Wey is identified as an FH “senior advisor” and Nasr as an “FH executive”....
...Job moves Intel has named Frank Yeary, a board member since 2009 and a managing member of Darwin Capital Advisors, as independent chair following Omar Ishrak’s decision to step down as chair....
...And from the Financial Times and Pushkin Industries, this is Hot Money Season 2: The New Narcos....
...Shell has appointed Cyrus Taraporevala, the president and chief executive of State Street Global Advisors who intends to retire from his post at the end of the year, as a non-executive director, effective...
...This was “not unprecedented” with the energy sector having a 12 per cent weight in the Growth index after rebalances in 2011 and 2009, but the 6.6 percentage point increase is the largest since then....
...The above is why CS is already on its seventh restructuring plan since 2011, with an eighth likely to be on the way shortly. 6....
...£2 in February 2012....
...The Burbank, California-based group on Friday said Third Point had approved Everson’s appointment and entered into a deal where the hedge fund agreed not to buy more than 2 per cent of Disney’s outstanding...
...Earlier this year, it agreed to privatise SailPoint Technologies for $6.9bn and Ping Identity for $2.8bn....
...By the end of last year, they held 22.8 per cent of shares in the midsized S&P 400 index, and 28.2 per cent of the small-company S&P 600 benchmark. Elon Musk is among those now railing against this....
...James and Carter have been investors in Liverpool since 2011 and have since expanded their initial investment....
...State Street Global Advisors is one player hoping to take advantage of the reported rise in institutional interest in bond ETFs....
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