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...In 1910, Gifford Pinchot, chief of the US Forest Service, said, “Forest fires are wholly within the control of men.” Humans are not the only species who will spread fire....
...This year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction took us judges into the worlds of music and memory, geopolitics, history, mutiny on the high seas and beyond....
...Chase Coleman’s hedge fund Tiger Global and Edinburgh-based investment group Baillie Gifford have also taken hits on their Chinese equity portfolios....
...Smaller existing investors such as Baillie Gifford also participated. VW, which this year signed a $14bn battery order with Northvolt, said it had invested $620m in the fundraising....
...Siegal, 51 and originally from New York City, had long been inspired by Henry David Thoreau, the American thinker who turned his back on materialism “to suck out all the marrow of life” in the woods....
...One Two Three Four just won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, but Brown hasn’t “really enjoyed it”, probably because there was no party....
...Henry Ford also predicted the invention of flying cars and even built several prototypes, known as “Flivvers”....
...In the case of Scottish Mortgage, that required a review of the overlaps between the trust’s portfolio and other funds managed by Baillie Gifford....
...Vineyards like the Howards’ Giffords Hall estate are sprouting up all over the UK and their wine is acclaimed by critics such as the FT’s Jancis Robinson....
...Henry Sugden thought so. Six months ago he was working in London for Deloitte. Today, he runs Defined Wines, a contract maker of wines based near Canterbury in Kent....
...Over five years, Royal London Ethical Bond and Baillie Gifford Strategic Bond both feature in the top 10....
...Baillie Gifford is today publishing its objections to a takeover of Dragon Oil by Emirates National Oil Company that values the explorer at £3.7bn....
...● Henry Schlegel, chief executive of Vontobel Asset Management’s equity boutique in New York for the past 26 years, is to become chairman in July....
...Music extravaganza The BBC’s 119th Henry Wood Proms concert season begins at the Royal Albert Hall, London....
...● Western Asset has named Gordon Brown of Baillie Gifford as a global portfolio manager and Chia-Liang Lian of Pimco as head of investment management for Asia except Japan....
...Roger Gifford, a British banker working for a Swedish bank, was delegated to reply to King....
...There are echoes – acknowledged by Abse – of the almost unbearably regretful and memory-laden verse written by Thomas Hardy after the death of his first wife, Emma Lavinia Gifford....
...Emma Gifford was also 30 - poor, literary, eccentric in manner and deprived of suitors in isolated Cornwall....
...Sant, Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus, The AES Corporation Henry B....
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