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...In short, Apollo does the kinds of things that GE Capital did once upon a time (before its demise) but without taking the existential risk of borrowing short and lending long....
...Apollo’s life insurance affiliate was drawing in a long-lasting pool of capital to lend out at interest rates that would cover payments to policyholders, and perhaps an additional 3 or 4 per cent return...
...Many of these co-working spaces come with the perks that young tech workers expect with their paycheques — pool tables, bowls of sweets, quirky furniture....
...He now runs MaxMyInterest, which allows depositors to improve returns by sweeping pools of savings around multiple accounts....
...Last week, NYSE Euronext – like many exchanges, a longstanding critic of dark pools – turned the tables with the launch of a dark pool for retail investors. Where this will end up is hard to see....
...GES allows investors to buy and sell directly in the pool of shares traded by Getco....
...Dark pools match trades anonymously with prices posted only after trades are done....
...“There are pools of liquidity that institutions or agency brokers are hesitant to access because they don’t want to deal with the counterparty risk. GES addresses that concern.”...
...Sophie Sohn, Getco spokeswoman, declined to comment on any potential GES expansion plans....
...Reactor manufacturers such as Westinghouse, Areva and GE stress that the best way to keep costs down and limit outages is to build large fleets of standardised reactors....
...It talks to Bombardier, Siemens and Alstom about railways; Alstom, Siemens and General Electric about power generation; Areva, GE and Westinghouse about nuclear power; Boeing or Airbus about aircraft; and...
...The move by the two industrial conglomerates to pool their nuclear units underlines the need by multinational groups to weather the political and economic vagaries of the nuclear energy market by building...
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