Hints and tips:
...Douglas Smith, managing partner at top 20 shareholder Blackmoor Investment Partners, which will also vote against the deal, said: “The board suggests the offer gives a total entity value of £481mn, but our...
...Links (all FT links get you past the paywall): – Fourteen Days, edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston, is out now where books are sold....
...The key drivers of the acceleration this month were an uptick in successfully completed European IPOs (e.g....
...As Douglas-Pennant at UBS points out, plenty of fund managers are latching on to the phenomenon....
...Rebecca Watson Yes....
...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...And take note of an embarrassing saga linked to Glencore about the “G” in the ESG tag....
...“What Wodehouse writes is pure word music,” the late Douglas Adams said. It takes one comic genius to recognise another....
...Helen Watson, chief executive of UK wealth management at Rothschild, says: “With inflation higher than for many, many years, it’s much harder to achieve real returns....
...Rowan Douglas, head of the climate and resilience hub at the British-US insurance adviser Willis Tower Watson, who helped arrange the insurance, said the payout highlighted the role of insurers in “ecosystem...
...Douglas Henshall is excellent as Melville. At first, confident in his position and in his principles, he lords it over Thompson, a fictitious lowly servant....
...Also, as Ben Watson, author of several books on Zappa, said during a talk later in the afternoon, Zappa thought some orchestras back in the ’80s drank too much....
...And Russia’s invasion has also highlighted another point: the problems of reconciling “E” with “S” and “G” in a unified way....
...The group shifted its head office from Seattle to Chicago in 2001, four years after merging with McDonnell Douglas....
...Rolex doesn’t market to teens, but when Gen Z age-out of buying Casio G-Shock watches, Knight says there’s a risk they won’t be interested in buying a Rolex at all....
...The company said it would book an impairment loss of around £3m, having folded D&G’s lettings business into its own network....
...Blended with local botanicals including blackcurrant leaf, douglas fir and lovage, the result is bright, fresh and beautifully balanced....
...Clive Watson, executive chair of City Pub Group, which has a vacancy rate of about 10 per cent, said that offering temporary visas was a “no-brainer”....
...“The E and G [of ESG] are fairly clear cut,” says Daniel Harris, partner at law firm Chancery Advisors, talking about environmental, social and governance investing....
...L&G found that 10 per cent of over-50s who have not yet retired are expecting to retire earlier than they anticipated, by two years on average....
...Douglas Hansen-Luke, executive chairman of Future Planet Capital, which also invested in the round, said the success of the Covid-19 shot has increased its confidence in the company’s platform....
...Schroders earlier this year considered a bid for M&G Investments, attracted by the private assets business of its London rival, according to a person familiar with the matter....
...Clio’s sister, Esther, an artist too, lives nearby and is married to dairy farmer Oliver Watson, of the Riverford Organic dynasty....
...Douglas Watson Studio, by the way, makes excellent Delft-inspired tiles in its Oxfordshire workshop. Consider, also, English Victorian and Edwardian tiles....
...I’ve got a Henry Clay from 1848, and a Stephen Douglas from when he ran against Lincoln, but I’ve run out of wall space so I am toning down the collecting now....
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