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...Questions have risen over how Chelsea FC’s former owner Roman Abramovich funded the club’s success after leaked files revealed secret payments that may have breached certain “financial fair play” rules, the Guardian...
...In this Guardian long read, scholar Aeron Davis argues that it deserves more scrutiny....
...“Fidelity’s buying from Capital Group, who’s buying from a hedge fund . . . you’re just looking to do the best trade.”...
...Owl Rock Capital, Blackstone Credit and Golub Capital financed the company’s $10.7bn takeover of Anaplan last month and its SailPoint takeover....
...Traditional venture capital rivals such as Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and Accel were forced to move faster and stomach more risk, or chance being edged out of their own territory....
...The European Publishers Council, a body that comprises leading press publishers including The New York Times, Germany’s Axel Springer, the UK’s Guardian and the Daily Mail, has today filed a complaint with...
...(Guardian) A wildfire is threatening California’s electricity supply....
...(The Guardian) The rise of Spac-man Chamath Palihapitiya has amassed followers and fans across Wall Street and the Twittersphere thanks to his blank-cheque boom crusade....
...In 2016 the newspaper was wrenched from the hands of the hedge fund Alden Capital by Paul Huntsman, scion of the billionaire Mormon family....
...(Guardian) Video of the day Are securities analysts doomed? Securities analysts try to point investors in the right direction....
...But entrepreneurs are now preparing to get a fresh bout of capital from the venture capital arm of London-based cryptocurrency wallet provider Blockchain.com....
...However, Alphabet’s results also revealed the vast scale and rapid growth of its investments, including $7.3bn in capital spending, with ventures stretching from virtual assistants to autonomous cars....
...A Guardian article takes a closer look at one house in Southwark that has stood empty for two years....
...This fund then took an interest in Vision Capital Partners, a private equity vehicle, The Guardian reported, which went on to buy stakes in two UK retailers, Threshers, the off-licence chain, and BrightHouse...
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...Shareholders including Oaktree Capital, the US investment group, also plan to sell down their stakes through the IPO. The company is planning to float in February....
...For instance the old “down and out” rule, where losses of capital led to the loss of one’s job, is gone....
...Robert Wright tells the tale of the 10-year-old cargo dispute that prompted the Iranian military to seize a vessel owned by Oaktree Capital....
...Then came the phone hacking scandal, which burst into the public consciousness with revelations in The Guardian newspaper that journalists at the News of the World, the UK Sunday tabloid newspaper owned...
...(Financial Times) An ECB policy maker has offered hints on how the eurozone’s monetary guardians would embark on a QE programme to stave off low inflation....
...The protests sweeping Brazil began in São Paulo, the country’s commerical capital, last week as a demonstration by students against an increase in bus fares from R$3 to R$3.20 ($1.47) per journey....
...The first is to adopt a more accurate measure of return on capital employed, which accordingly drops from 14.5 per cent to 11.3 per cent....
...Knight to get a $400m boost: A consortium of four firms was preparing on Sunday to inject $400m into Knight Capital through a convertible share placement that will give them control of the broker, reports...
...The stock jumped 151/4p to 3713/4p on reports that CVC Capital Partners had explored taking the fashion and food chain private...
...“This is how they burn witches I guess,” Paul Kelly, a director of PPS, Cuadrilla’s public relations and lobbying firm told the Guardian....
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