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...As one Dutch minister told the FT’s Sam Fleming in April, the risk is that mainstream political parties fail to carry the public with them as they step up action against climate change....
...Ian Fleming chose the name Bond for his spy because he thought it was “the dullest name I’ve ever heard”....
...But the reality is that economic policymaking is looking increasingly discordant, writes Sam Fleming in Brussels....
...I am away next week so the Saturday edition of Europe Express will be written by my colleague and FT Brussels bureau chief Sam Fleming. You can reach me at tony.barber@ft.com....
...In a packed university hall in Canberra last week, Sir Jeremy Fleming, the chief of British spy agency GCHQ, shared the kind of jaw-dropping classified intelligence that the public rarely hears....
...The potential of Omicron to knock back Europe’s recovery is likely to be a hot topic at today’s round of eurogroup meetings, the first since the new variant emerged, reports Sam Fleming in today’s Europe...
...That is certainly the conclusion reached by the multifamily office Stonehage Fleming....
...Shaping investment portfolios to achieve racial justice “is incredibly difficult, primarily because of the lack of data”, says Mona Shah, director at Stonehage Fleming, a family office....
...emissions trading system would ensure any changes could be imposed at the EU level, but carbon prices fluctuate and many domestic companies are given permits to pollute and so pay nothing for their initial endowments...
...Ms de Silva joins from BlackRock where she was head of the UK charities and endowments business....
...So we’re stuck with the mild stimulus that we’ve seen,” says Yukon Huang at the Carnegie Endowment and former World Bank country director for China....
...Meiping Yap, a director in Stonehage Fleming’s Private Capital team, says clients might choose to invest through a combination of private equity funds and direct investments....
...Mr Rosengren pointed to rising investments by university endowments and pension funds in alternative asset classes as an area to watch....
...Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the party needed to narrow the playing field and to bolster the name recognition of experienced office holders, rather...
...Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said she saw distinct camps emerging within the Democratic party, with one arguing for a renewed focus on Latinos and...
...• Harvard Management, which runs the US university’s $35.7bn endowment fund, is to lay off half of its 230 staff in a significant reorganisation....
...They differ from private non-profit colleges, which are funded partly by endowments and overseen by boards that have no financial stake in the institution; and public colleges, which receive a large portion...
...The consequences go beyond museums or donkey sanctuaries: there are more than 60 US universities with endowments exceeding $1bn, compared with just two in the UK....
...Works will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in July to set up an endowment fund for the gallery....
...It is the world’s second-largest funder of medical research after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with an £18bn endowment....
...“They have come up with a formula to enrich themselves more than their investors,” says the chief of one leading US endowment....
...Additional reporting by Sam Fleming...
...The total Olympian cost of £9.3bn could build at least 30 new hospitals or nearly 500 schools or fund three universities in perpetuity with endowments as big as Oxford....
...The capital raising comes as Greg Fleming, the former Merrill Lynch president who joined Morgan Stanley last year to take charge of investment management, sharpens the unit’s focus....
...Brandeis University, near Boston, has seen the value of its endowment fall in the downturn, while some of its donors were hit by the Bernard Madoff scandal....
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