Hints and tips:
...“The James Gorman we’re seeing now is not the James Gorman from year one,” said one person who has known him for years. “James is an introvert who’s become very polished.”...
...Tokat, 46, joined Centerview in 2009 with a group from Merrill Lynch that specialised in pharmaceutical and biotech companies....
Comments from Joe Biden ally reflect growing anger in Washington over war in Gaza
Party strategists and commentators trade barbs over whether US president should drop re-election bid
...Trump’s bombastic warning to Nato members, and his barb aimed at a member of the military deployed overseas, are a reminder of the divisive rhetoric that is fuelling his campaign and energising the Republican...
...Primary Wave did not disclose the price of the Rubicam and Merrill purchase....
...Presidents of all stripes seem to relish nothing more than trading barbs....
...pointed attacks on Trump mark a shift in strategy for her campaign, which had aimed much of its fire on DeSantis in recent weeks, including during bitter televised debates when the two candidates traded barbs...
...Gorman parried those barbs with the aplomb of a celebrated CEO who will not be accountable for whether these goals are achieved....
...Step barefoot on the barb of a camelthorn tree and, if you’re lucky, you’ll receive a nasty wound. If you’re unlucky, it’ll go septic. It’s not that the wilderness hates you....
...The show masterfully balances its sweetness with acidic barbs, most of them courtesy of inappropriate principal Ava (Janelle James) and mafia-adjacent Melissa (Lisa Ann Walter)....
...Analysts challenged outgoing boss James Gorman on the realism of a target return of 20 per cent on tangible equity....
...Before I did this, I remember Sir James Goldsmith, one of these corporate raiders in the 1980s, wanted to buy call options on $100mn worth of bonds. We just made up the price....
...Chief Jane Fraser recently hired Andy Sieg, the former president of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, to revive the bank’s wealth business....
...In the firm’s perhaps most consequential moment, in 2009 it hired three Merrill Lynch healthcare dealmakers: Alan Hartman, Mark Robinson and Richard Girling....
...the tensions surrounding the overhaul, the committee meeting on Monday to send the first batch of proposals to parliament took place in a raucous atmosphere, with government and opposition MPs trading barbs...
...Chief operating officer Helen James will leave. “It’s a nice, proper transition and carefully done,” said Parker, adding that it was the “right time” for a change....
...Bank of America’s acquisition of Merrill Lynch in 2008 is another example where cultures clashed....
...Just a few years later, the financial crisis eliminated several prominent full-service investment banks including Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch....
...After leaving bank Merrill Lynch and setting up a food group, she worked at the Centre for Social Justice, a think-tank co-founded by former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith....
...UK foreign secretary James Cleverly, who spoke after Lavrov, described his comments as “distortions, dishonesty and misinformation”....
...“Typically, when investors are this complacent, volatility surges in the coming weeks,” said James Demmert, chief investment officer at Main Street Research....
...On his back was a battle scar from a spear tipped with a stingray barb....
...Instead, the film just offers a procession of blunted barbs, schoolyard-level snickering over the name Dick and a protracted gag involving a sex offender (played by Danny Vinson)....
...Saperstein followed Gorman first to Merrill Lynch and again to Morgan Stanley in 2006, where he became head of US wealth management in 2009....
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