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...Harold Wilson set up a Department of Economic Affairs in his 1964-70 administration. It was not a great success....
...Harold Rosenberg summed up Abstract Expressionist gloom as Barnett Newman (the tight zip canvases) closing the door, Rothko pulling down the blinds, Ad Reinhardt (who painted mainly in black) turning off...
...February 25 to July 28; further information and tickets here ‘Harold Cohen: AARON’, Whitney Museum of American Art AARON was the late artist Harold Cohen’s proto-AI art software, which was programmed to...
...So no-one was there to point out that this (r-g) thing misses the state’s biggest contractual financial liabilities....
...Besides his Oscar for In the Heat of the Night, the academy gave him the Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award for his “consistently high quality of motion picture production” and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian...
.... ★★★★☆ To August 20, almeida.co.uk The Seagull Harold Pinter Theatre, London Chekhov was the great master of “if only”....
...In a world of green-screen Marvel and dino-driven entertainments, there’s something hugely gratifying about watching Miles Teller’s face melting in G-force....
...And so Alex G Clarke, a broker at Denison Yachting who co-founded its superyacht division, has arranged for me to poke around on 7 Diamonds, a big, gorgeous yacht designed for a specific purpose....
...A dollar spent on G&A is a dollar that they’re not sending back to their investor to return capital.”...
...J Smith, White Plains, NY, US Why Zoom is not an A-list company / From Peter G Moffatt, Norwich, Norfolk, UK...
...After years plagued by poor performance and heavy redemptions, Mr Barnett left Invesco in May after 24 years....
...Evidently, he’d missed the latest keystrokes of M&G bond fund manager Richard Woolnough. He’s decided to turn ‘Caps lock’ off and predict a lower case ‘t’....
...M&G chief executive John Foley said earlier this year that the group was reviewing its value house style, which underpins its former blockbuster Recovery fund....
...Notable among Invesco’s funds are three managed by Mr Barnett, the co-head of UK equities at Invesco....
...is run by beleaguered manager Mark Barnett....
...A separate run on H2O Asset Management funds with significant investments in illiquid bonds — and the suspension of M&G’s property fund this month — drew further attention to the issue....
...The great figures in the field were men: Charles Webster, G P Gooch and Harold Temperley, John Wheeler-Bennett, Hugh Seton-Watson, AJP Taylor, Fritz Fischer and Pierre Renouvin....
...It was a show about performance, which needed to be performed to a high level: it was. ★★★★☆ fkatwi.gs...
...One of his protégés, and another of the old-school active managers, Mark Barnett of Invesco, was shown the door after his fund’s performance flagged....
...the BNY Mellon Real Return fund, whose assets dropped from £8.6bn to £6.7bn, reflecting widespread investor dissatisfaction with absolute return funds, and the Invesco High Income fund, managed by Mark Barnett...
...One portfolio manager affected is Invesco’s Mark Barnett, who succeeded Mr Woodford when he left to set up his own business in 2013....
...Harold mumbled it in the hallway.[ . . . ]And, the thing is, we liked Paul.We liked Paul.We liked Paul.But we spoke as one. A single cry, and then another....
...James Callaghan, chancellor of the exchequer at the time in Harold Wilson’s government, dismissed the idea on the basis that “it will only cause trouble”....
...Britain’s imperial and Commonwealth connections made the UK sceptical of European integration, but its 1950s “Plan G” (Plans A-F were jettisoned) for a bespoke free-trade area privileging British interests...
...Forty years ago, a City lunch would glide forward from G&T through white, red, port, brandy and cigars....
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