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...When Covid-19 rattled markets, the bond yields of countries from the US to Finland, Germany to Australia, France to the UK, plunged to fresh lows that in some cases made even past records seem dowdy....
...If you hadn’t heard of H2O before DD reported on the fund on Tuesday, you may very well have heard of its parent: France’s Natixis Investment Managers, which also counts Loomis Sayles among its affiliated...
...The macro and housing backdrop remains unsupportive in the UK and France and our earnings forecasts are over 10 per cent below consensus.”RBC Castorama had been struggling in France because of a weak digital...
...Available through Knight Frank, €5.6m Photographs: Xavier Muyard; AFP/Getty Images; edpics/Alamy; Hemis/Alamy; Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/Alamy; Loomis Dean/The Life Picture Collection/Getty...
...“You are seeing improved sentiment around growth,” said Brian Kennedy, a portfolio manager with Loomis Sayles....
...As a former Goldman Sachs partner and executive at SFR, France’s second-largest telecoms operator, as well as Alcatel-Lucent, the telecoms equipment maker, Jean Raby had already racked up the air miles....
...“The political risks are not going away,” says Laura Sarlo, senior sovereign analyst at asset manager Loomis, Sayles & Co. Brexit would be “a huge deal for the UK and a big deal for Europe”....
...“He said, ‘Stop it now, we want this agreement, don’t play games with this, it isn’t fair’,” says Laurence Tubiana, France’s COP21 ambassador. The text was duly changed....
...Handel’s only opera with a libretto by the Arcadian poet Apostolo Zeno deals with warring powers from France’s legendary history....
...A similar pattern was seen in Germany and France, which both registered strong growth for bond sales....
...US-based Loomis Sayles and France’s Carmignac Gestion have both reduced their exposure as the country prepares to exit its international bailout programme....
...Delius is an acquired taste, a cosmopolitan whose style reflects, besides the American connection, his German heritage, English upbringing, fondness for Norway (especially Grieg) and preference for France...
...Asset Management is a big player in France, with nearly €370bn under management....
...On the face of it, the working life of Susan Herrmann Loomis is a dream come true....
...Mr Rohatyn escaped from Vichy France to the US in 1942, while Mr David-Weill’s family had to change their names to avoid being arrested as Jews. “Peace is relatively strange. But catastrophe!...
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