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...Wood said Intellia had recently “announced a functional cure” for ATTR amyloidosis, which she described as an “exotic blood disease”....
...The firm’s assets under management have more than trebled over the past decade to more than $34bn, in funds that trade everything from blue-chip stocks to exotic debt and commodities, and it has been closed...
...Viewed through DD’s Zoomed-out eyes, the Manhattan of a decade ago is nothing short of an exotic island....
...The UK-based portfolio manager, whose fondness for exotic private companies has caused a liquidity crunch at his flagship fund, owns about a quarter of Industrial Heat and his funds have invested £54m....
...completely when they are faced with a studio full of drag queens on television, hard at work at their sewing stations, wielding glue guns and make-up brushes as they transform themselves into ever more exotic...
...Putting faith in data alone is no longer deemed exotic or taboo. To some degree this is understandable. Performance of quant-based funds has been strong....
...We think of Africa as a remote, exotic, often alien place....
...., has left and started his own shop, LongTail Alpha LLC. The fund will be focused on “expecting the unexpected,” according to a press release today....
...Today, the breakaway movement may also seem less exotic because many advisers have at least enquired about the basics, says Mr Willis....
...Spanish-born, Florence-dwelling Alvaro González works with local craftsmen on his men’s and women’s collections of vegetable-dyed vachetta leather and exotic skin styles, while sunglasses and swimwear entrepreneur...
...Updates include thousands of new place names, changed borders and melting glaciers, but the key attraction remains the same as ever: the chance to let the imagination roam over deserts, mountains and exotic...
...Then it turned out that Euro Trash LLC, the company that did the work, had made no charge for its services....
...Sternberg cited Lee Miller, Man Ray and Elsa Schiaparelli as key influences on his collection this season, which was playfully subversive with its endless trompe l’oeil trickery: a fitted black sweater with eyelashes...
...At least Reed Krakoff, who unabashedly embraced his love of the exotics and what they do to texture, mixing anaconda print and cashmere, real python, astrakhan and jersey (albeit with in his very tight sportswear...
...Pets at Home, which sells exotic snakes and dog coats, has opened 119 stores since KKR acquired it....
...When the restaurant closed, she made her mark managing exotic dancers at Winnipeg hotels. At her peak, the “Queen of the Strippers” managed more than one hundred male and female performers....
...Not surprising then that hedge fund offerings are getting battier and more exotic by the minute....
...Plan sponsors and advisers are starting to express greater interest in non-exotic alternatives, including non-traditional bonds and long-short funds, packaged as target-date funds, says Jonathan Dale, director...
...For instance, few houses can run a traditional client portfolio that also cleanly integrates “exotic” holdings such as futures, options, foreign securities, short positions and complex fixed income....
...The problem is exacerbated as other bond yields – on corporate debt, junk bonds and more exotic securities – fall in tandem with Treasury yields....
...Orient-Express is a one-of-a-kind company, an international collection of iconic hotels and exotic railroads....
...“One finance director in an exotic country told me he had had six heads in the last 10 years,” said Mr Plassat, adding that the rapid turnover led to an absence of responsibility....
...Exotic points out that the ground may be shifting a little with, for example, US-based hedge fund Monarch Capital winning a legal judgement in the UK against GRE Drydocks World for $45.5m....
...In 2008, the product was adopted by the beauty industry after the US Food and Drug Administration approved its use for improving eyelashes....
...More exotic funds, such as those that focused on buy-write strategies, nearly doubled their inflows, adding $639m in 2011, compared to $376m the previous year, according to Lipper....
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