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...Rokos, a former co-founder of hedge fund firm Brevan Howard, has gained around 44 per cent in his fund so far this year....
...A sea change is under way in markets, writes Howard Marks, co-founder and co-chair of Oaktree Capital Management, in this opinion piece....
...Mr Law’s Caxton made a record 40 per cent gain, boosted by bets on government bonds, according to an investor, while Brevan Howard gained 24 per cent....
...Funds such as Brevan Howard, Caxton Associates and Rokos Capital Management are enjoying some of their best gains in years....
...The tale of how two New York Times reporters investigated Weinstein is a journalism masterclass. The revelations of the legal and PR tactics Weinstein deployed to thwart his pursuers are shocking....
...Since the #MeToo movement rose to prominence in 2017, the film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years for rape, and the comedian Bill Cosby to between three and 10 years for indecent assault...
...Weinstein asked more than 250 students to compare themselves to other students....
...Lantern’s offer beat a last-minute expression of interest by Broadway producer Howard Kagan, which TWC said on Tuesday “contemplated substantially less value to the estate”....
...“But I thought Wall Street was full of Harvey Weinsteins!” said one. I am, admittedly, a statistical anomaly: a female portfolio manager....
...“Clearly, there’s an urgent, pressing need for reform,” said Mark Stephens, a lawyer with Howard Kennedy, which is acting for Ms Perkins....
...Later, we catch up with actor Hayley Atwell, star of a new adaptation of Howards End. We'll be back next year. Until then, happy holidays!...
...In the presciently titled movie Rules Don’t Apply, Warren Beatty plays the eccentric aviator and Hollywood studio mogul Howard Hughes....
...This Vogue interview with Harvey Weinstein’s soon to be ex-wife, Georgina Chapman, was like reading a train wreck. I couldn’t stop and felt a bit icky afterwards....
...In the arts, Fats Domino, Peter Hall, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Howard Hodgkin, Derek Walcott, John Berger (FT, WaPo, NYT, Economist, Guardian, Irish Times, Miami Herald) World press freedom Sixty-five reporters...
...Smart reads No comment He's grown used to fixing the most complex PR nightmares known to man, but representing Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein proved trickier than most for Michael Sitrick....
...In 1980, the psychologist Neil Weinstein published a study showing that people did not dwell on risks such as cancer or divorce....
...Partly this is the legacy of a movement pioneered in the early 1990s by the Weinstein brothers’ Miramax, which championed complex, character-driven films of the kind that weren’t represented in Hollywood...
...From Howard Hughes in the 1930s to Jeff Skoll, the internet entrepreneur who was the first full-time employee of eBay, and Gigi Pritzker, a member of the family behind the Hyatt hotel group, well-heeled...
...Brevan Howard co-founder Rokos to leave: Christopher Rokos, co-founder of Europe’s second largest hedge fund manager, Brevan Howard, is to leave the firm....
...It initially took him to university in Buffalo, where he studied business but also landed a job working as a runner for Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, then a young concert promoter....
...The Oscar bait this year is The King’s Speech, stuffed with British character actors and distributed by The Weinstein Company, old hands at making small films into winners....
...“We’ve seen the biggest returns in history,” Howard Marks, chairman of Oaktree Capital Management in Los Angeles, said of the high-yield bond market....
...Inside the Sun Valley Inn, where most of the conference sessions are being held, Rupert Murdoch and Sir Howard Stringer of Sony shared a grumble about the downturn gripping global markets....
...It was quickly sold in a split international-domestic deal: HBO picked up all American rights, and the Weinstein Co got most international rights....
...Harvey Weinstein said it would take the sort of investment risks previously blocked by Disney....
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