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...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
...Bridgewater Associates and Renaissance Technologies, both considered among the best hedge funds in the world, suffered steep losses....
...Associates from the time remember him as a fun boss who led a tight-knit group of employees....
...His title was associate, one of the lowest ranks in banking, but his colleagues gave him the unofficial status of “managing associate”, one former banker recalls, after noticing that he often provided answers...
...He is also encouraged by a “V-shaped” recovery in Asia, its largest market, and less dire forecasts for UK consumers....
...Ethan Ilzetzki, associate professor at the LSE: The UK economy will begin its recovery in 2021 but will not return to its pre-pandemic level of GDP until 2022....
...Bankers’ early optimism that the pandemic would manifest as a sharp economic shock followed by an equally rapid recovery — the ubiquitous “V-shaped” recession — has given way to pessimism....
...More importantly, this is likely one of the few areas in the portfolio with any investment market liquidity currently....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...However, the England v France game was cancelled due to Typhoon Hagibis, the most powerful storm to hit the country in decades....
...Liikanen remains a probable alternative and would also be a good leader for the ECB for many of the same reasons as V. de Galhau....
...A danger of releasing some of the pressure that has held down borrowing costs is that tighter monetary policy chokes off economic recovery....
...In the Salman case, the Supreme Court reaffirmed its 1983 ruling in Dirks v SEC, which held that when an insider gives trading information to a relative or friend, it is effectively the same as if the insider...
...In Dirks v SEC, the court ruled that prosecutors must prove that a tipster received a “personal gain” in return for violating his duty to keep market-moving information secret....
...He argued that the appeals court’s “unprecedented ruling” clashed with the Supreme Court’s definition of insider trading established in a 1983 case, Dirks v the Securities and Exchange Commission....
...Defence lawyers argued a leading 1983 Supreme Court decision called Dirks v. SEC was the guiding principle....
...Defence lawyers hinge their argument on a leading 1983 Supreme Court decision called Dirks v. SEC....
...The US government has since taken control of more than $480m that he and his associates had placed in bank accounts in Jersey, France and the UK....
...As pension funds embraced the use of cheap index funds over the last decade, such advantages were pitched as a way for hedge funds to improve portfolios....
...Betting on a US recovery – as Mr Paulson’s aptly named Recovery Fund does – has been one of the most profitable trades around. And not just for Mr Paulson....
...Blackstone has amassed the largest portfolio in the sector with 28,000 homes, having spent $1.8bn on its Invitation Homes unit....
..., making it difficult to participate in the recovery.”...
...Honda is also expected to introduce a redesigned CR-V late next year....
...If 2009 was a year of huge equity returns for hedge fund managers going long on the economic recovery, 2010 has been a year of trading fixed income as the cracks in the bounce-back began to show....
...the Partito Democratico and former Minister of the Republic (Undersecretary of State for Foreign affairs in 1996, Minister of International trade in 1998 and Minister of Justice in 2001) USA Richard V....
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