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...Assets at the 64-year-old’s hedge fund Kynikos Associates, which was burnt by a longstanding bet against Tesla, have fallen from a peak of $7bn at the end of 2008 to under $1bn....
...Since then he has hired a team of options traders to help structure its short positions and rebranded Kynikos Associates, the investment firm he launched in 1985, as Chanos & Company....
...Now Chanos & Company, his investment firm formerly known as Kynikos Associates, is raising several hundred million dollars for a fund that will take short positions in US-listed real estate investment trusts...
...Greece Sotheby’s International Realty....
...in which the value of their second homes and investment portfolios has soared....
...Tech titans are attracting the world’s brightest talent, creating a concentration of wealth and investment in new city hubs....
...In terms of investment, in the UK the jury is out....
...Commonfund Capital has hired Xiaonan Tian as an associate director and head of the Beijing investment office. Tian was previously senior vice-president in structured banking at HSBC....
...I had recently bought a flat in Queens, and an influx of highly paid technology workers promised a generous return on my investment....
...Manhunts on this scale are not supposed to last long, but the men couldn’t have asked for a better place to hide....
...s largest private landlords, and SL Green Realty, an S&P 500-listed real estate investment trust....
...She complained to her broker, refused a substitute investment, then demanded her money back. She’s still waiting....
...“Some of the deals are much bigger now and the equity cheques to do this can’t be too concentrated on one single transaction,” says Marco Compagnoni, a senior partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges....
...then you haven’t exposed yourself to any risk of a depreciating asset.”...
...“It’s a great place for families and it’s very international,” says Barbara Caprara of Sotheby’s International Realty....
...She says: “People don’t just want a holiday home, they want an investment that will sell quickly if they need to.”...
...Don’t worry, we’ve done our best to simplify the most important details in a story for FT readers here. Here’s the gist....
...We don’t have a closure strategy. We have a market share strategy.”...
...They want privacy, security and a beautiful rural landscape,” says Matt Finnigan, sales associate at Sotheby’s International Realty New Zealand, which is marketing the property....
...They haven’t seen sterling this low in decades and have learnt to buy UK [property] in a crisis,” says the fund manager....
...“It makes much more investment sense than investing in the Miami Beach area,” says Li Griffith. “The prices in Miami Beach don’t make sense any more.”...
...’s International Realty....
...Almost 300 years later, you can’t just invade St Lucia — times have changed. But would it be folly to buy a little piece of it? It depends....
...Orchard tweaks that slightly by offering a way for institutional investors to build a portfolio of direct lending investments....
...When she moved to Los Angeles in 1984 as a junior associate, no Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer had ever been made partner without first spending time in the New York office....
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