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...The assets of US-domiciled passive funds quadrupled from $2.6tn at the end of 2012 to $10.9tn a decade later, according to data from the Investment Company Institute....
...“Sign-ups have not returned back to pre-pandemic levels,” Gary Swidler, chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Tinder parent company Match Group, told the Financial Times....
...Additional contributions from Gary Jones and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...The deal is a huge feat for the company, which made its public markets debut in 2012 at an almost $1.6bn valuation....
...BBC executives are increasingly confident they will find a way to hold on to Gary Lineker, the corporation’s star sports presenter who was taken off air after breaching impartiality rules, as pressure grew...
...Sharp has denied wrongdoing and is refusing to quit, saying he neither facilitated nor arranged financing for Johnson....
...US defence contractors Lockheed Martin and Raytheon also report earnings as demand for their products surges. 3M, Johnson & Johnson and General Electric also report....
...Tiger Woods, one of golf’s most bankable stars, reportedly turned down a huge sum to join, but other leading players, including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka, signed up....
...In April, Richard Sharp had resigned as chair of the BBC because of a perceived conflict of interest over his relationship with former prime minister Boris Johnson at the time he was appointed to the job...
...In its fight with the FTC, Kotick noted that Microsoft had hired Beth Wilkinson, a Washington-based lawyer who was hired by the commission in 2012 to lead a probe into Google....
...Ministers are not advising private citizens to follow suit but the BBC has ordered the app off its phones, presumably in case Gary Lineker has any views he wants to share....
...Benny Johnson, a “flimflam salesman with a short attention span and a love of shortcuts”, was fired as BuzzFeed’s “viral politics editor” and moved to Trump-backing outlets....
...As a result, thematic funds’ share of total equity fund assets — 2.2 per cent as of June, triple that in 2012 — has remained flat or even risen since mid- year....
...In one video from a 2012 gamer convention, he asked a woman where her breasts were, adding “I can’t see them.” He later apologised and removed the relevant videos....
...The “unmasking” of American shoppers as they shed pandemic precautions “could lead to a Roaring Twenties type of consumer exuberance”, RH chief executive Gary Friedman predicted on his upmarket furniture...
...But diplomacy didn’t seem to be top of mind for Kotick when he spoke to the FT’s Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson and Patrick Temple-West just before the CMA news broke....
...American Airlines, Freeport-McMoRan, Philip Morris, and Dow Inc also report earnings....
...Royal Caribbean’s next challenge is a $650mn bond issued in 2012, which will come due in November....
...Gary Retelny Retelny has for more than a decade led one of the two least-appreciated power brokers of the investment industry, proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services....
...‘After the Tories ditch Johnson, they need to reset their values’ Boris Johnson’s premiership has been largely spent sabotaging his own “oven-ready” Brexit agreement and mismanaging Covid-19....
...In 2012, the last year before Paulson’s acquisition, it had net sales of $354mn and net income of $13.5mn....
...In June, Southwest Airlines chief executive Gary Kelly said he would leave his post in February. Brad Tilden, head of Alaska Airlines, left the company on March 31....
...By most measures, Johnson & Johnson boss Alex Gorsky is going out on a high. He became CEO of the consumer health conglomerate on April 26, 2012....
...The 54-year-old has been quietly plotting a comeback by launching a new Manhattan-based advisory business called Consello, DD’s James Fontanella-Khan and Arash Massoudi and the FT’s Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson...
...And since 2012, it has been sponsored by Gazprom, the Russian state energy giant. Between 2018 and 2021, this was worth €40mn a year to Uefa, according to SportBusiness Sponsorship....
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