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...”, the FT’s Stephen Foley and Simon Foy report....
...Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan sold $1.9mn before becoming chief executive but none since; Citi chief executive Jane Fraser has also not sold since taking the top job....
...One thing hasn’t changed in Cushon’s approach, however: the pension fund still does not include investee companies’ indirect emissions, known as scope 3, in target-setting, due to concerns about the quality...
...Edward White and Peter Campbell profile the man simply known as “The Chairman”....
...“If you’re only paying for inputs, you’re assuming that those inputs always work.”...
...The challenge to mutual fund dominance has been brewing since State Street launched the very first US ETF in 1993, an S&P 500 tracking fund known as SPY that now has $500bn in assets....
...As it snapped up assets across the globe, it also became one of the most sizeable players in the North Sea....
...Diageo vs Diddy When Diageo entered into a profit-sharing arrangement with US rapper and entrepreneur Sean Combs, also known as Diddy, in 2007, celebrity partnerships were still rare....
...We’re also reading . . . Barbenheimer: The marketing success of Barbie and Oppenheimer has much to teach us about misplaced rivalry in politics and life, writes Stephen Bush....
...That was prompted by a period of swingeing fines on banks by US and UK authorities for money-laundering failures, such as the $1.9bn penalty levied on HSBC in 2012 by the US Department of Justice....
...Weekend essay With opposition to Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reforms showing no sign of abating, Simon Kuper asks is it time for a sixth Republic? We’re also reading . . ....
...The group recorded $1.4bn in net income in the second quarter, a rise of 27 per cent over the same period last year, buoyed by the recovery in the benchmark S&P 500 index....
...Separated from the audit division, consultants in the US alone would be free to chase business at close to a third of S&P 500 companies, including tech giants such as Google and Amazon, that are currently...
...Despite the way his police career ended, McKelvey sees life in the private prosecution business as an extension of his life-long vocation. “We’re good detectives, you know....
...Stephen Millard: Growth in 2024 will be anaemic at best....
...(Only about 1 per cent is exported.) And they are a preoccupation at 67, as Verbier’s newest drinking spot is known....
...Also this week, a man alleged to be Tewelde Goitom, a Kidane associate better known as Welid, appeared at a pre-trial hearing in the Netherlands claiming to be a victim of mistaken identity....
...“When we talk about mimosa in Britain, we’re really talking about acacia,” says Simon Toomer, curator of living collections at Kew Gardens....
...Junior criminal advocates, who represent defendants and operate out of shared offices — known as chambers — earn as little as £12,200 a year....
...“Now they’re split between Prayuth and Prawit, and there are also independents,” he explained, referring to General Prawit Wongsuwan, deputy prime minister....
...While that remains the case for dozens of players, the widely expected No. 1 pick this year is half a world away in France....
...Simon’s owner, the former ViacomCBS now known as Paramount, announced the $2bn sale to PRH in late 2020. The deal, if completed, would shrink the so-called Big Five of US publishing houses to four....
...Microsoft agreed to buy a £1.5bn stake in the London Stock Exchange Group as part of a 10-year strategic partnership....
...The S&P 500 closed 1.4 per cent higher. Thomas Simons, an economist with Jefferies, said payroll growth and wages were not slowing quickly enough....
...elections Montenegro, presidential elections UK, Mothering Sunday, also known as mother’s day...
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