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...The company spent billions of dollars acquiring truck-stop operator Pilot Flying J and insurance conglomerate Alleghany in recent years, adding them to a portfolio that includes ice cream purveyor Dairy...
...University of Cambridge Joanna InnesEmeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford Margot FinnProfessor, Modern British History, UCL Stephen DeucharDirector of the Art Fund, 2010-20 Penelope J...
...Woodford: channel surfing Is Neil Woodford a convert to remote working?...
...Lansdowne Partners, Neil Woodford and Invesco were meant to be patient backers of the private company. But they have since sold, or been forced to sell, large stakes....
...Georges Moroz, Bronx, NY Crossword 16,395: David Micklethwait, London; Peter Tilford, Florida; David Westacott, Vienna Polymath 1,060: Liz Wicken, Cambridge, England Crossword 16,389: David Riddle, Woodford...
...Returns are lumpy, says Burford, which was once the darling of disgraced investment ace Neil Woodford. Too true. Investing in porridge might be more sustaining....
...Read more on FT.com J Sainsbury reveals £500m cost cuts after failed Asda bid J Sainsbury is expected to exit mortgage lending to improve the profitability of its banking unit and conserve capital, as...
...Investors in Neil Woodford’s biotech-heavy funds found that out painfully last year....
...J&J has come under increased legal pressure after it lost an opioid crisis-related lawsuit in Oklahoma....
...This is a colourful interview/profile with the Man of Steel, just don’t say the j-word....
...The shareholder register also lists two trusts run by Howard J. Rubin, who appears to be a lawyer with expertise in “wealth preservation, estate and business succession planning”....
...We are not quite there yet, but the latest attempt from Mike Coupe, J Sainsbury’s CEO, to explain how wonderful the merger with Asda would be, betrays his desperation....
...J&J also took a stake in Arrowhead and has agreed to collaborate on other drugs. Sadly, Silence sold its stake a year before at an average of $3.6 a share....
...● Stifel upgraded Neil Woodford’s Woodford Patient Capital Trust to “buy” from “hold”....
...Meanwhile, what links Mr Woodford to actor Brad Pitt? “Cold fusion”, a speculative nuclear technology that has intrigued investors for decades....
...“What we see is real polarisation in the quality of boards, like with Woodford Patient Capital Trust where the board and manager have basically sailed the ship into an iceberg.”...
...Dr Mike J Pugh Woodford Green, Essex, UK...
...Evans was born in 1947 in Woodford on the London-Essex border. His mother was a teacher, his father a bank clerk. Both were Welsh....
...Mike J Pugh Woodford Green, Essex, UK...
...Dr Mike J Pugh Woodford Green, Essex, UK Letter in response to this letter EM Forster imagined computer screens in 1909 / From Stephen Sklaroff...
...Cranswick still only manufactures food in Britain and its biggest customers are supermarket heavyweights, Tesco and J Sainsbury....
...Sofinnova, the French healthcare investor, in December raised €300m, while several longer-term funds such as the £800m Woodford Patient Capital Trust have reinvigorated biotech finance in the UK....
...Like at J&J, there has so far been no groundswell of investor support for Mr Woodford’s view....
...Neil Woodford, the former Invesco fund manager who is one of the largest shareholders in Next, describes Amazon as “a ruthless and ill-disciplined competitor”....
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