Hints and tips:
...Institutional asset managers are conservative, and hold dear the dogmas of diversification, efficient frontiers and Sharpe ratios. Once a new asset class is on the menu, institutions will order it....
...Additional reporting by Attracta Mooney in London Letter in response to this article: Don’t believe competition hype on Sainsbury’s deal / From Thomas Sharpe QC, London, UK...
...Jessica Hynes appears in ‘Swallows And Amazons’, in cinemas from August 19 Photographs: Dave J Hogan; Dreamstime; Getty...
...Invitations went out to Scotland Yard and J Edgar Hoover to visit Dachau, and the programme was all set when war broke out....
...Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714, by Kevin Sharpe, Yale, RRP£45/$65 The third and final volume in Sharpe’s superb series on how the British monarchy projected its public...
...US holdings of countries in J.P.Morgan’s Global Bond Index – the Emerging Markets Global Diversified… had risen to 17% of all US holdings of non-US government bonds by end-2010 from just 1% in 2001....
...expectations in investment theory is the efficient markets hypothesis, which implicitly sits behind another Nobel-winning model, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) developed by Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe...
...I went to the Goldman Sachs Global Strategy Conference 2011 on Monday, where David J....
...Robert Sharpe, chief executive of West Bromwich, which made a £17m loss last year, said that while he would “never say never” to a private-equity deal, the society was “over the worst”, having agreed a £182.5m...
...Lombard: Louise Lucas – Babcock sharpes its pencil No-one could accuse Babcock International of hanging around....
...Volatility can be a problem — it lowers Sharpe ratios, a measure of risk/return, for instance....
...The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost. Do you read slowly or fast? Very fast. If I’m reading for pleasure, it’s about three books a week....
...See www.ftknowledge.com/pma *The original source is J.L....
...Mutually exclusive Portman Building Society’s agreement to take over the smaller Lambeth society means that Robert Sharpe, Portman’s chief executive, can put away his boilerplate denials....
...The exclusion of the multi-winners – Salman Rushdie, J.M....
...Raynor, which describes the difficulties successful companies encounter in managing disruptive technologies; and CFROI Valuation by Bartley J....
...Mehrling compares Black to Glenn Gould, the eccentric pianist whose recording of J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations changed perceptions of the composer’s music....
...As Ladbrokes' voice, Sharpe, a former FT reporter, was well aware of these arguments....
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