Hints and tips:
...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
...Bridgewater Associates and Renaissance Technologies, both considered among the best hedge funds in the world, suffered steep losses....
...Associates from the time remember him as a fun boss who led a tight-knit group of employees....
...His title was associate, one of the lowest ranks in banking, but his colleagues gave him the unofficial status of “managing associate”, one former banker recalls, after noticing that he often provided answers...
...Dawn Holland: A lot depends on the evolution of the pandemic....
...Ethan Ilzetzki, associate professor at the LSE: The UK economy will begin its recovery in 2021 but will not return to its pre-pandemic level of GDP until 2022....
...He is also encouraged by a “V-shaped” recovery in Asia, its largest market, and less dire forecasts for UK consumers....
...Tilney’s Mr Hollands says: “Investors don’t care that he has made a fortune, after all he has made them a lot of money....
...Bankers’ early optimism that the pandemic would manifest as a sharp economic shock followed by an equally rapid recovery — the ubiquitous “V-shaped” recession — has given way to pessimism....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...More importantly, this is likely one of the few areas in the portfolio with any investment market liquidity currently....
...However, the England v France game was cancelled due to Typhoon Hagibis, the most powerful storm to hit the country in decades....
...A danger of releasing some of the pressure that has held down borrowing costs is that tighter monetary policy chokes off economic recovery....
...The brother traded on the information and also tipped off Salman, who with an associate earned roughly $1.7m in profits....
...Dawn Holland, Chief of Global Economic Monitoring Unit, United Nations The UK is expected to lag behind most of the rest of Europe as well as other developed economies in 2018....
...Rupert Harrison, portfolio manager, BlackRock and former chief of staff to George Osborne I really hope so but I’m not holding my breath....
...The brother traded on the intelligence and tipped Salman, who with an associate reaped roughly $1.7m in profits....
...Rupert Harrison, portfolio manager, BlackRock and former chief of staff to George Osborne Yes it will be an easier year....
...Lacklustre wage growth has been a feature of the UK’s recovery since the post 2008 recession and real wages are still below their pre-crisis high....
...‘look through’ at least a moderate degree of inflation,” said Monique Ebell, associate research director at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research....
...Dawn Holland, chief of global economic monitoring unit, United Nations Feel about the same as 12 months ago....
...The fund, Holland’s €156bn Dutch healthcare workers’ pension fund PFZW, took the rare step of directly attacking the high pay of hedge fund managers, criticising “the high remuneration in the hedge fund...
...The US government has since taken control of more than $480m that he and his associates had placed in bank accounts in Jersey, France and the UK....
...As pension funds embraced the use of cheap index funds over the last decade, such advantages were pitched as a way for hedge funds to improve portfolios....
...Betting on a US recovery – as Mr Paulson’s aptly named Recovery Fund does – has been one of the most profitable trades around. And not just for Mr Paulson....
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