Hints and tips:
...Stephanie Stacey’s great post on the desperate efforts to come up with a European version of the Magnificent Seven (get your tee here) reminded Alphaville of the silly attempts to find a successor to BRICs...
...The anointment of Greg Abel as Buffett’s successor has also stoked expectations of more energy investment, as he rose through Berkshire’s energy unit and worked on some of the company’s bigger deals in the...
...‘business as usual’ as it confirms possible US bankruptcy filing (FT) Bulb bailout cost set to top £4bn by spring (FT) Thoma Bravo agrees $730mn takeover of Australia mapping company (FT) Vodafone to...
...at Edward Jones....
...Gorsky is starting the break-up before he hands over the reins to his successor Joaquin Duato at the start of next year....
...“The investors, with the exception of Discovery [Inc, which has a significant stake], they all love Nigel Farage, they regard him as huge, a big, big character....
...It also sparks geopolitical fears: as Michael Greenwald, a former US treasury diplomat, notes in a very smart new analysis, China is likely to try to use a digital renminbi to undermine the dollar’s position...
...Job moves Kirkland & Ellis has hired Edward Lee as a partner. He joins from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz....
...For years BlackRock’s Mark Wiseman was among a handful of senior managers tipped as potential successors to Larry Fink, chief executive of the world’s largest asset manager....
...Mr Jain and Greg Abel, who was also named a Berkshire vice-chairman in 2018, are seen as the most likely potential successors to Mr Buffett as chief executive....
...(The Intercept) Here’s a flashback to a 1994 Vanity Fair profile mentioned in the article, which pits Rattner as successor to Lazard’s Felix Rohatyn....
...representative to the United Nations, New York, July 12 1976 Fourth row: Edward Kennedy, US senator (Massachusetts), Washington, DC, July 29 1976; Roger Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union...
...Geoff Dyer Edward Snowden US intelligence whistleblower Qassem Soleimani Head of Iran’s Quds force Aung San Suu Kyi Myanmar’s de facto leader No politician has travelled such a dramatic arc as Myanmar...
...fallen to basically zero”, and export data from the likes of Colombia and the US....
...“It is a new challenge and it is something that I have not had to face in the past, but my successors will have to face that risk,” said Morris Chang, founder and outgoing chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor...
...recent transactions such as Broadcom-Qualcomm might make you think that this is solely a recent phenomenon, it is not....
...Bethell used his reputation to raise F & C’s profile and acted as a figurehead for the venture, according to Nigel Edward Morecroft’s The Origins of Asset Management from 1700 to 1960....
...James Murdoch has been suggested as a potential successor to Walt Disney chief executive Bob Iger in deal discussions with the US media company over the sale of 21st Century Fox entertainment assets....
...The moves on Wednesday meant Mr Rose was “no longer in the mix”, said James Shanahan, analyst at Edward Jones. “It seems to me that Abel could be the frontrunner here now....
..., according to James Shanahan, an analyst with Edward Jones....
...Much is riding on the successor to Daniel Tarullo, the lead bank regulator at the US Federal Reserve, who is working out his final few days....
...Mr Martin joined Gilead in 1990 and was appointed to the top job in 1996, a year before Donald Rumsfeld, the former US defence secretary, started a four-year stint as chairman....
...Google Cardboard relies solely on sensors built into modern smartphones to detect the position of a user’s head, while Gear VR is more sturdily built and features extra motion sensors....
...Hired to prepare the US navy for the second world war, Booz Allen recommended changes such as replacing old chains of command with new management units....
..., calm and decisive individual” able to prevent the corporate arrogance that befell once giant corporations such as US Steel and General Motors....
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