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...behind the newly reopened fine dining restaurant Laurent in a pink and white pavilion just off the Champs-Élysées, and Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay, a country hotel about 45km outside Paris housed in a former Rothschild...
...“In England, people live in the country, and there is a way of life with hotels and pubs and antiques shops, but country villages in France, it’s like everyone is hiding,” says de Castellane....
...Rothschild was that rare species, someone who was rich as Croesus who also had impeccable good taste. Nice flowers too....
...This sentiment also comes across from France’s Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, which has recently trimmed back its equity exposure to slightly underweight relative to benchmarks....
...objets de vertu such as needle-cases, perfume bottles and snuffboxes on show, the most extraordinary are those embellished with sumptuous jewelled and enamelled neo-renaissance mounts by Baron Alphonse de Rothschild...
...Economic data: S&P Global/Cips manufacturing purchasing managers’ index data is published for the EU, France, Germany, Italy and the UK....
...Trained as a geologist and first working in the Australian mining sector, Weir traded metals derivatives at NM Rothschild....
...“Le melon entamé” sold in 1876 to the Rothschild collection, where it has been since. Etienne describes the painting as “a pure moment of the 18th century, and of poetry”....
...France’s Dassault family and Italian entrepreneur Giammaria Giuliani will also take part. The Dassaults and Giuliani were already investors in Rothschild alongside Concordia....
...France’s best-known independent investment bank is set to reverse out of an ownership structure copied by Goldman Sachs when it floated in New York in 1999....
...Two we missed: An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries, by Emma Rothschild. A fascinating exploration of social mobility....
...Top-end vintage Champagne is down 17.2 per cent, while wines from France’s Rhone valley have lost 19.4 per cent in price on average, according to Liv-ex indices....
...The Rothschilds are in talks with some of France’s wealthiest families, including the Peugeots, to help buy out minority shareholders in its Franco-British investment bank and remove it from the public markets...
...The competition between the two institutions has been a constant in corporate France for decades....
...France’s Dassault family, with investments stretching from newspapers to aviation, as well as Italian entrepreneur Giammaria Giuliani will also take part....
...English Premier League club Brentford has hired Rothschild to explore a full or partial sale by British owner Matthew Benham....
...The institution — which counts Emmanuel Macron, president of France, British politician Jacob Rees-Mogg, and Wilbur Ross, who is known on Wall Street as the “king of bankruptcy”, among its alumni — was effectively...
...To put it bluntly, the 10 most valuable US equities are larger than the market capitalisations of Japan, UK, France, Canada and Germany combined....
...France’s billionaire Pinault family has agreed to buy a majority stake in Hollywood talent manager Creative Artists Agency from private equity firm TPG in the largest-ever transaction for the family’s holding...
...He previously was CEO of an investment holding group and led Rothschild’s restructuring team in Germany. Asset manager Golub Capital has hired Andrea Picard to co-head global institutional sales....
...Christie’s will offer 600 objects valued around $20mn from the Rothschild family, amassed mostly in the 19th century across two generations in France....
...But the stronger financial positions of first growth châteaux, such as Mouton Rothschild or Château Margaux, mean they can keep any unsold wine inventory themselves....
...A joint venture with France’s legendary Château Mouton Rothschild, it was conceived after a trip by Guilisasti’s father to the top Bordeaux vineyards in the 1990s in search of fine winemaking expertise....
...EU finance ministers meeting in France failed to reach an agreement on reforming EU rules on government debt and deficits....
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