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...DWS has hired former Man Group executive Dan Robinson to lead its private credit push in Europe, the Middle East and Africa....
...“Dan [Beck]’s focus was on net interest income,” said one person familiar with the matter, adding, “it worked out until it didn’t”....
...As a leading fertility consultant in Indiana, he helped countless women conceive through artificial inseminations in the 1970s and ’80s....
...“Basically, he gets to say he spent money, but not spend very much,” said Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor. “If they win, he claims victory....
...Dan Mikulskis, a partner at the pensions consultancy LCP, said: “The key question now is what is the ‘right’ level of leverage to use in LDI funds....
...While a fraction of petroleum refining output, it would be up from 600m gallons at the end of 2020....
...We have heard from consultants and lawyers that some companies are looking for ideas about how to raise their ESG game before the next annual general meeting....
...The firm also hired former head of the UK government legal service Sir Jonathan Jones as a senior consultant within its dispute resolution practice in London....
...Its financing of Occidental Petroleum has also left something to be desired; the warrants it received in the transaction now look worthless....
...Japan Inc has domestic support to be more vocal on controversial issues, too....
...DD’s James Fontanella-Khan takes us through how a mega-deal at Occidental Petroleum took a turn for the worse in this M&A tale....
...“Even with a Biden win, the clean energy revolution is at best delayed because the Democrats failed to add seats in the House or win control of the Senate,” said Dan Eberhart, head of oilfield services company...
...Dan Wang, associate professor of business at Columbia Business School, said it would be “extremely difficult” for Apple ever to catch up....
...“You’re selling the steady bit of your cash flow right at the time when you most want steady cash flow,” said one consultant to Marathon....
...He stayed on as a consultant with managerial responsibilities but resigned when the US hedge fund managers joined the board....
...That was definitely the question investors were asking as Seven & i outbid rivals by about $4bn to buy Marathon Petroleum’s Speedway stores for $21bn....
...Oregon’s public pension fund has named Rex Kim, a former consultant with Multnomah Group, as its chief investment officer....
...One of Mr Danjuma’s companies said in a letter to Nigerian fraud authorities that P & ID had signed an agreement with the petroleum ministry “behind our back”....
...“Especially in the US, people who buy larger trucks aren’t prepared to make the leap, they want the tried and the true,” said Alyssa Altman, a transportation consultant at Publicis Sapient....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on November 01. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Go deeper with the FT’s Dan Thomas and Alice Hancock here. Feel free to send in your thoughts on the collapse and the culpable parties to Due.Diligence@FT.com....
...When Bank of America and Citigroup turned up at the side of Occidental Petroleum for its hostile bid for Anadarko Petroleum, Wall Street dealmakers were not surprised....
...A new generation of treatments have seen impressive results at enabling the immune system to attack cancer, by disabling blockers inside the body....
...Mr Zacconi, a former management consultant, co-founded King and has served as its chief executive since 2003....
...Being on the blacklist “limits [Huawei’s] ability to acquire US technology”, said Dan Wang, technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics....
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