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...Indeed, since the Furey report was published, the Russell 2000 has narrowly beaten the S&P 500....
...While some overwrite on the S&P 500® index, others overwrite on the Russell 2000 or Nasdaq 100 indices, or even single stocks and sectors (not surprisingly, mega-cap Tech buy-write funds have been particularly...
...“Is it true that triple-C firms have interest coverage ratios below 1? Definitely, but that’s always been the case....
...HR positions are now more likely to be considered part of the “C-suite” than five years ago....
...Most large consumer packaged goods groups, including P&G, are still operating on tighter margins than they were before the pandemic....
...Maybe it will continue, but it seems like a gamble to count on it....
...Alliance Pharma, M&C Saatchi and YouGov all fall in this zone. But it’s not only about individual companies....
...The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline by Russell Jones (London Publishing Partnership) This depressing but fundamentally realistic book describes in persuasive detail the...
...In the UK, Russell Reynolds data shows that so far this year 32 FTSE 350 CEOs have either left or are due to leave in 2022....
...S&P had managed to beat numerous giants to win one of the industry’s crown jewels. Then Bloomberg showed up....
...Consumer-facing companies including Mondelez, Procter & Gamble, Kraft Heinz and Airbnb said their price increases had met little resistance....
...Kenney had ploughed more than C$1bn into KXL — a move many said was a failed gamble on the re-election of Donald Trump, who had pledged to get the project built....
...Strong results helped the S&P 500 to set 10 record highs since late October, and gains have not been limited to a small number of mega-cap stocks; the Russell 2000 index of small companies also hit a record...
...But the number of transition announcements has picked up considerably from the second half of 2020, according to a study of the Russell 3000 and the S&P 500 co-authored by the Conference Board earlier this...
...Sarsfield’s former co-head Craig Russell will become vice-chair of asset management....
...The average tenure of departing chief executives at finance companies within the Russell 3000 index halved from just under 15 years in 2017 to seven years in 2020, according to data compiled by research...
...The best gift I’ve given recently was the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, which I gave to my friend Russell, the guy I used to gamble with....
...For example, Hamid says MSCI has 10 themes and 37 factors it considers when developing a score for a company, while FTSE Russell has 14 themes, and S&P has 23 criteria....
...The average “virtuous” company has 20 per cent fewer employees than the median Russell 3,000 company, despite having a larger market capitalisation than the typical S&P 500 stock....
...Ms Delgado says P&G provided “the trampoline” for her professional life. She joined the group in Portugal, before rising over 22 years to vice-president and general manager of P&G Nordic....
...Other companies with a zombie director this year include Palo Alto Networks and SS & C Technologies, MSCI said....
...P&G, the world’s largest consumer goods company, bought the vitamins and supplements business of pharmaceutical group Merck for $4.2bn in 2018....
...Procter & Gamble, the consumer goods group, will this month face a shareholder resolution calling for diversity disclosure....
...And P.S., those cities are some of the fastest growing cities, right, places like Charlotte, places like Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham area....
...levels (c33% of the Russell 2000). v) Since 1923, small caps outperformed by 2.3% a year....
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