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...The results of a shift to defined contribution plans, or 401k schemes in the 1980s are not looking pretty....
...“I do sort of have a grander vision for what I thought X.com or X Corporation could have been back in the day . . ....
...Some political analysts have deemed that campaign part of a grander scheme by the Chinese government to chip away at the relevance of Hong Kong....
...But the grander dream of securing a permanent spot among the elite of bulge bracket US investment banks has, in effect, been abandoned. Mr Nagai’s exhaustion is at least the result of action....
...Hot Hand funds are relatively concentrated, holding just 45 companies on average, it says....
...Virtu Financial has agreed a deal to buy high frequency trading rival KCG Holdings for $1.4bn in a move that will turn it into one of the biggest participants in the vast US equity market....
...Virtu Financial, the high-frequency trading group chaired by Vincent Viola, has agreed a deal to buy rival KCG Holdings for about $1.4bn, in a move that will turn it into one of the biggest participants...
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...It fended off bids from HNA, China’s aviation and shipping conglomerate, and a rival Canadian consortium led by PSP Investments, according to people familiar with the matter....
...Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings, controlled by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, was also among the four groups that submitted an offer late last week....
...Mr Sanders also has a grander, but perhaps not so creative, idea. He would break up the largest firms and reintroduce 1933 Glass-Steagall style separation of commercial and investment banks....
...This is not your 401k [a US pension account], this is your crazy money.” Kennedy recalls one “scary” meeting at a Starbucks in Portland, where he met with a man who had contacted him on LinkedIn....
...With $750bn invested by US retail investors in ETFs compared with their holdings of $10.2tn in US active mutual funds, ETFs still have a lot of catching-up to do,” he says....
...Now with a market capitalisation of $1.6bn, Primerica was a grander name in US finance in previous decades....
...Instead, we fostered an even grander, greedier, more systemic scandal. Such wilful blindness makes me worry what catastrophes we are now cultivating for the years ahead. andrew.hill@ft.com...
...In the grander visions, the SDR would run parallel to the USD as a reserve currency and potentially replace it....
...This can result in higher trading costs for such investors, and by extension, their clients, who include 401k investors, and pensioners participating in state and corporate plans....
...There are two: the Grill Room, which is small and woody and near the bar, and the Pool Room, which is a much grander space in the back, set around a large burbling fountain....
...“Maybe 10 years ago everyone played games in front of the TV, but now it is changing to mobile phones or the PSP or the DS [handheld consoles],” said Naoya Tsurumi, head of consumer business at Sega....
...ICD is an important government holding company led by Mohammed al-Shaibani, whose star appears to be on the rise while others wane....
...admitted in July that sales of its DS were being hit by the popularity of smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, games which can sell for less than a third of the price of those on a DS or Sony’s PSP...
...By the late 1980s KLM had grander ambitions than its limited domestic travel market could meet, and it soon sought ways to work in partnership with its newfound American investment....
...Northern Trust is being sued over 401k losses related to securities lending, it was reported last week....
...Meanwhile, Amandeep is holding a blue glass statue....
...“That would be the quickest and cheapest way to stabilise the system in the absence of any grander plan,” she said....
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