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...The writer is chief executive of Hunter Lewis LLC and a co-founder and former chief executive of Cambridge Associates Since the financial crisis of 2007-08, buyouts have benefited from the gift of virtually...
...“The Queen could bloody die and there’d be a funeral on the day of the show,” she says. “But if something like that happens, you can’t change it....
...When Mr Rashid travelled to San Francisco to attend his brother-in-law’s funeral in August 2011, the $1,866 plane ticket was charged to an Apollo fund....
...So forgive Jacobs if the staging on Wednesday had the whiff of a funeral. This collection was not about moving product, but shifting the narrative. It’s obvious that Jacobs knows how important this is....
...“I feel like a funeral director,” he adds. “I’m the one that has to tell them the bad news.” The fire sale in Texas is just a small part of the worldwide value destruction caused by the oil decline....
...And so he did, persuading Presley’s father to sell him the rights to the star’s estate – at Elvis’s funeral....
...In the spookily named US “death care” industry – the business of funerals, cemeteries, and increasingly, cremation – Service Corporation acquired Stewart Enterprises for $1.4bn....
...When Yasuo Takei, founder of Japanese consumer lender Takefuji, died in 2006, hosts of investors led by a contingent from TPG, the US private equity group, showed up at the funeral....
...Montagu floated Dignity, the funeral chain, in 2004 when markets were starting to recover and investors were looking for defensive stocks....
...Eircom, the Irish telecommunications group, is up 38 per cent, Dignity, the funeral directory group, is up 51 per cent and Premier Foods is sitting on a 33 per cent improvement....
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