Hints and tips:
...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
...Bridgewater Associates and Renaissance Technologies, both considered among the best hedge funds in the world, suffered steep losses....
...Associates from the time remember him as a fun boss who led a tight-knit group of employees....
...His title was associate, one of the lowest ranks in banking, but his colleagues gave him the unofficial status of “managing associate”, one former banker recalls, after noticing that he often provided answers...
...He is also encouraged by a “V-shaped” recovery in Asia, its largest market, and less dire forecasts for UK consumers....
...Ethan Ilzetzki, associate professor at the LSE: The UK economy will begin its recovery in 2021 but will not return to its pre-pandemic level of GDP until 2022....
...Bankers’ early optimism that the pandemic would manifest as a sharp economic shock followed by an equally rapid recovery — the ubiquitous “V-shaped” recession — has given way to pessimism....
...More importantly, this is likely one of the few areas in the portfolio with any investment market liquidity currently....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...However, the England v France game was cancelled due to Typhoon Hagibis, the most powerful storm to hit the country in decades....
...Lara Murrell is an associate in the property team at Goodman Derrick LLP The legal issues discussed in this column refer to England and Wales....
...A danger of releasing some of the pressure that has held down borrowing costs is that tighter monetary policy chokes off economic recovery....
...The brother traded on the information and also tipped off Salman, who with an associate earned roughly $1.7m in profits....
...The brother traded on the intelligence and tipped Salman, who with an associate reaped roughly $1.7m in profits....
...Director, Media & Telecom Finance, BNP Paribas 94 Robert Hudson Group Finance Director, St Modwen 95 Jon Miller Partner, Brunswick Group 96 Nick Major Chief Underwriting Officer, Zurich 97 Kevin Goodman...
...The US government has since taken control of more than $480m that he and his associates had placed in bank accounts in Jersey, France and the UK....
...As pension funds embraced the use of cheap index funds over the last decade, such advantages were pitched as a way for hedge funds to improve portfolios....
...Betting on a US recovery – as Mr Paulson’s aptly named Recovery Fund does – has been one of the most profitable trades around. And not just for Mr Paulson....
...Blackstone has amassed the largest portfolio in the sector with 28,000 homes, having spent $1.8bn on its Invitation Homes unit....
...Global Logistics Properties, part of Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, and Australia’s Goodman Group are two Asian companies looking to expand their Japanese property portfolios....
...“They have seen recovery in Hong Kong and Singapore but in Japan they think the recovery is yet to happen,” says Mr Hurfurt at CBRE Consulting....
..., making it difficult to participate in the recovery.”...
...Honda is also expected to introduce a redesigned CR-V late next year....
...If 2009 was a year of huge equity returns for hedge fund managers going long on the economic recovery, 2010 has been a year of trading fixed income as the cracks in the bounce-back began to show....
...Portfolio trades made up another 4-5 per cent in both years....
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