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...It’s how a lot of crop breeding is done,” says Nick Howard, a molecular apple breeder at the Dutch agriculture company Fresh Forward....
...A sea change is under way in markets, writes Howard Marks, co-founder and co-chair of Oaktree Capital Management, in this opinion piece....
...And wherever Hockney goes, lithe young men are there, flopping into armchairs and sun loungers (“Nick, Hotel de la Paix, Geneva”, dapper with long hair and bowtie; “Gregory, Chateau Marmont”, languid in...
...He had been an architect — Le Corbusier was his cousin — then first violinist in Geneva’s Orchestre du Théâtre, and his rhythmic push-pull between order and chaos mesmerises....
...Alan Howard, co-founder of Brevan Howard, moved to Geneva in 2010 but the switch was later seen internally as a mistake and he returned to London in 2017....
...Alan Howard, co-founder of Brevan Howard, and former JPMorgan trader Mr Platt both moved from the UK to Geneva, taking senior staff with them....
...In 2017, billionaire investor Alan Howard, co-founder of hedge fund Brevan Howard, moved back to the UK from Geneva....
...“I knew that I could always make music, even if I didn’t have an audience,” he says, speaking via Zoom on a train to Geneva from Neuchâtel, where he is based....
...Some critics say the Geneva-based body is one structure that requires urgent reforms if it is to fulfil its mandate to promote public health and respond to emergencies....
...A move by traders, including co-founder Alan Howard, to Geneva was seen as a mis-step. It also lost star manager Chris Rokos. The firm chalked up three calendar years of losses between 2014 and 2017....
...The journalists David Epstein and Malcolm Gladwell dub this idea the “Temin Effect”, after the brilliant biologist Howard Temin, a Nobel laureate with interests ranging from social activism to philosophy...
...Still, Lombard wonders whether he was also waiting for his firm, Brevan Howard, to extricate itself from time consuming EU regulation....
...• Quaero Capital, the SFr1bn Geneva-based investment boutique, has appointed Francesco Samson as chief operating officer. Mr Samson previously worked for Brevan Howard, the hedge fund manager....
...The scheme remained invested in several high-profile hedge fund companies at the end of 2015, including Brevan Howard, Tudor Investments, Bridgewater and Citadel....
...The Geneva-based hedge fund manager, whose assets have halved to $20bn since 2013, is launching a “low-cost” arm....
...The Geneva-based company’s move is the latest sign that the struggling $2.86tn industry, which was founded to cater to the financial elite, is being forced to move mass market....
...While Mr Howard remains in Geneva, Mr Platt last year relocated to Jersey....
...Brevan Howard’s return to London reverses a 2010 decision by Alan Howard, its billionaire co-founder, to move himself and a clutch of top traders to Geneva....
...But City Insider’s St John’s Wood mole reports that Alan Howard is building a house in the swish district. Howard moved to Geneva in June 2010 for “lifestyle reasons”....
...Brevan Howard has begun to tell its investors that some of its senior traders will move back to London, although Mr Howard himself remains ensconced in Geneva....
...It marked the first time a bank had been raided there on suspicion of aggravated money-laundering, a spokesman for the Geneva prosecutor said....
...While the hedge fund remained highly private, with Mr Howard’s move in 2010 to Geneva from London removing him further from the City spotlight, its reputation for strict standards of risk management grew...
...Brevan’s co-founder Alan Howard will feel appropriately vexed....
...Alan Howard, the billionaire founder of hedge fund company Brevan Howard, moved himself and a clutch of top traders to Geneva in 2010....
...Luigi Buttiglione, one of the report’s authors and head of global strategy at hedge fund Brevan Howard, said: “Over my career I have seen many so-called miracle economies – Italy in the 1960s, Japan, the...
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