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...The next question is whether they have worked out what their so-called “scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions” are....
...Thus only a fraction of overall AUM is deployed in strategies that have a direct impact on the VIX® index (e.g. 1-month over/underwriting strategies on the S&P 500 index)....
...Skechers agreed to pay a $1.25 million civil penalty to settle the SEC’s charges....
...K-SURE, the South Korean government export credit agency, has withdrawn insurance needed to underwrite SK E&S’s investment in the Timor Sea project....
...He did gain a seat on the P&G board after a very close vote and recount....
...Purchases totalled £948mn last year, down 28 per cent from 2022’s record high of £1.3bn, according to data from the Association of Investment Companies, a trust industry body....
...After a period of divestments, GE conducted a reverse 1-8 split. Ditto, in the UK, Melrose’s 1-3 share consolidation last year. Then again, plenty of US companies also spurn splits....
...Payments company Visa, for example, had received a two for “E” and “S” and a three for “G”....
...Letter in response to this article: Why the airline business is unsuited to theory of the firm / From Matthew G Andersson, Founder and Former CEO, Indigo Airlines, Chicago, IL, US...
...This time last year, shares in Rolls-Royce were changing hands for less than £1, but have nearly trebled in price under the tenure of new chief executive Tufan Erginbilgic....
...Letter in response to this article: Storing carbon in soil is not a climate panacea / From Bonnie G Waring, Soil Biogeochemist and Soil Ecologist, Senior Lecturer, Life Sciences Department, Imperial...
...In 2021, S&P started publishing numbered scores from 1 to 5 for the three E, S and G categories as part of corporate credit scores....
...Though M&G did lower fees on the fund from about 0.7 per cent to 0.5 per cent a few years ago, Mackay says this is still “hefty” for a tracker fund when others charge about 0.1 per cent....
...That said, once the strategies’ delta goes to ~1 (i.e., call delta to zero), dealers would no longer be suppressing volatility / buying on the move lower via their long gamma hedging....
...It’s an interesting approach because not only does it isolate the sanitised portfolio’s excess returns (in theory), the E S and G bits can be measured individually....
...Kenny G pops up to play a jazzy sax solo on “Clair de Lune” and Lil Wayne raps about New Orleans on “Uneasy”....
...FY, Next FY, Nike Q3 Friday Competition and Markets Authority deadline for decision for its Phase 1 investigation into the anticipated joint venture between Vodafone and CK Hutchison of their UK mobile...
...Revenues have been flat for the past seven years, according to S&P CIQ data, which means they are falling in real terms....
...exf4 3 gxf4 Ne6 (the only defence to 4 Rg1+ and Qg7 mate) 4 Rg1+ Ng5 5 fxg5 and the g file mate follows. An immediate 1 Rf4?? fails to exf4 2 gxf4 dxc3 when 3 Rg1+ allows Bxg1 or 1 Rf4??...
...But if M&S really wants to build bridges with shareholders, it should consider introducing a shareholder’s card with a modest, perhaps 1 per cent open-ended discount on purchases....
...This year, the effective rate of interest on corporate debt jumped to the highest since 2012 for the smallest half of companies in the S&P 1500 (also from M&G, citing SocGen)....
...The biggest offender I could find is the L&G Tracker Trust CTF, which launched in 1999 and in 2023 still has an eye-watering ongoing charge of 1.56 per cent for the £1.3bn invested in the fund....
...Wall Street’s tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite closed 1.9 per cent lower, having fallen more than 2 per cent earlier in the session, while the broader S&P 500 fell 1.4 per cent....
...India’s top grossing film last year was the Kannada language action-thriller K.G.F: Chapter 2; Bollywood scored none of the top five. Tamil and Telugu films attract more viewers than Hindi movies....
...Subscribers rose to a peak of 3.41mn in 2019’s accounts, but this figure was restated as just shy of 2mn in 2020’s accounts, and then as 1.1mn in 2021’s accounts....
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