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...Google declined to disclose ad spending figures for any of the bitcoin ETF spots, noting that costs are variable as advertisers bid to place ads through an auction process....
...Hedge fund Muddy Waters on Wednesday revealed a bet against a publicly listed real estate investment trust managed by private equity giant Blackstone....
...The huge fee highlights how many investors tolerate hefty so-called pass through expenses — variable charges covering a range of items including trader pay, technology and rent — if net returns are high....
...P-hacking is when researchers overtly or subconsciously twist the data to find a superficially compelling but ultimately spurious relationship between variables....
...Regulators plan a blacklist for start-ups that use variable interest entities to attract international capital....
...Beijing has initiated a crackdown on the country’s $100bn tutoring industry over the past week that includes a ban on companies using a structure known as the variable interest entity....
...“We have an investment portfolio that has a decent amount of floaters in it on the Athene balance sheet,” he said, referring to variable-rate loans that generate more income for the insurance company as...
...This doesn’t disqualify all super-rich — a hedge fund manager with a regular salary and a clear history of annual bonuses, for example....
...Third Point, Mr Loeb’s fund, last month unveiled a 5 per cent stake in the insurer and said Jackson should be separated from Prudential’s fast-growing Asia business....
...The US division, which specialises in a particularly warty savings product called the variable annuity, is a drag on the group valuation....
...The company is focused on one type of product, variable annuities, and investors fear it could suffer badly in a US economic downturn....
...Carlos Abadi is managing director of DecisionBoundaries, LLC, a New York-based international financial advisory firm....
...Thus, assuming that Argentina qualifies for a reprofiling, the negotiating variable will be the number of deferral years....
...In December’s deal, Athene agreed to reinsure $19bn of fixed annuities that had been sold to consumers by Voya, and Apollo and Athene jointly also acquired a block of Voya’s variable annuities....
...It will complete our exit from the run-off life and annuity businesses and strengthen our focus on growing our market-leading property and casualty, group benefits and mutual funds businesses....
...It received $3.4bn in government bailout funds but went on to repay them. The group stopped selling new variable annuities and created Talcott as a repository for the outstanding policies....
...“We recognise that fixed salaries are capped at a low-level, resulting in an emphasis on variable-based pay; however, we are concerned by the potential overemphasis on short-term performance,” it said....
...Pirc said Variable executive pay at the company was “highly excessive”....
...If there is enough money in “vol-control” funds — ranging from variable annuity accounts at insurers and trend-following hedge funds — then their automated selling can pour fuel on an already combustible...
...“The annual and long-term awards were excessive and not in line with best practice, which considers that variable pay should be capped at 400 per cent of base salary,” the London-headquartered group said...
...The expansion of the business, whose funds are managed by Apollo and whose US subsidiaries have headquarters in Iowa, has attracted regulatory scrutiny....
...“Developed markets can force pension funds to hold bonds that make losses so pensioners get screwed, or debase currencies so that foreign holders of bonds get screwed....
...Another governance analyst at a big public pension fund said the award seemed “odd,” in a climate of cost-cuts and flat revenues....
...The company recently announced variable pricing for its rooms, taking the playbook from the traditional hotel industry, as a step toward boosting revenues....
...In London, one leading hedge fund has done just that....
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