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...One of the FT’s academic award winners was Gas, Guns, and Governments: Financial Costs of Anti-ESG Policies, written by Daniel Garrett from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania and...
...Sometimes I’m optimistic,” says Garrett. Mostly he is curious. “By training, I’m an astronomer....
...Still, Tesla has beaten analysts’ forecasts for net income in 13 of the past 14 quarters, according to Garrett Nelson, analyst at CFRA Research....
...asked Garrett Bush, co-host of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show and a former collegiate football player. He directed the blame at both the league and its billionaire owners....
...According to Garrett Derderian, head of GS Data Services, the average price drop in the second quarter of this year for homes priced above $20m was 20 per cent between the initial and final listing price...
...“The governance changes are unusual, but so is Uber’s situation,” says Erik Gordon, a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business....
...Mr Garrett has previously called for the bank, which provides finance and help for US exporters, to be shut down....
...“It is really unusual,” said Erik Gordon, a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, referring to the voting right changes....
...Big-wave rider Ross Clarke-Jones pictures himself in a nightclub, apparently. I imagined myself on my yacht during a very slow underwater length. It lasted 54 seconds....
...The Industries of the Future, by Alec Ross, Simon & Schuster, RRP£20/$28 Ross, a former innovation adviser to Hillary Clinton, set out to write the book he wished he had had as a young man to alert him...
...Among the financiers who mingled as they sipped their champagne were ICAP’s Michael Spencer; Pru chairman Paul Manduca; RBS’s Ross McEwan; and the brothers Michael and Yoel Zaoui....
...Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive, said the company had delivered “consistent outperformance” over the period....
...strengthened its board since the $35bn deal collapsed in the summer of 2010 by appointing Paul Manduca, who had held a number of senior executive roles in the fund management industry, to take over from James Ross...
...Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive, contends that regular share buy- backs are now “part of Alliance’s DNA”....
...It also said that Ms Garrett-Cox’s pay was in line with, or below, those of her peers at similar investment trusts....
...Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive, insists the focus is on improving performance. Shareholders have been unhappy with Alliance Trust’s failure to outperform a rising market since 2009....
...Laxey has broadened its campaign against the investment group, accusing it of hiding its true costs and raising questions over the pay of Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive....
...Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive, says the company’s focus is on improving its investment performance....
...Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive, has long argued the company does not want to put a formal buy-back policy in place because it wants to focus on performance....
...Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive of Alliance Trust, has urged private shareholders to “get off their armchairs” and support the company against activists....
...Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive of Alliance Trust, the UK’s largest listed investment trust, says: “I believe women think and invest differently from men and can often be good at risk management....
...The company has seen a slight uplift in performance since chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox took over in August 2008, though its longer-term record remains poor....
...Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive, has resisted pressure from analysts and investors to begin a buy-back programme, arguing that the company prefers to concentrate on performance....
...Analysts have long praised Ms Garrett-Cox’s investment judgment....
...Ms Garrett-Cox said that by the end of the year, bonds would make up about 5 per cent of the portfolio....
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