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...The dinner with Hunt and former chancellors Sajid Javid, Lord Philip Hammond and Lord Norman Lamont was won by Conservative donors Selva and Tharshiny Pankaj....
...For six trading days it was unable to provide the full three times leverage due to “technical issues with the margin loan provider”, it said in filings to the London Stock Exchange, one of four European...
...His comments echo those made by then Conservative chancellor Norman Lamont, who in 1991 — ahead of a surprise general election win for the Tories — declared “the green shoots of economic spring are appearing...
...On Tuesday cocoa futures in London traded at a record high of £5,827 per tonne. On the same day last year, they traded at £1,968. Prices are rising in part because supply is stretched....
.../ From Anthony Silverman, Partner, Apella Advisors, London W1, UK...
...There are auspicious precedents for such a move: John Major, who won an unexpected election victory in April 1992, announced a vote the day after his chancellor Norman Lamont introduced a 20p income tax...
...However, Lamont said that “in many cases the outcome for investors would be similar” between synthetic and physical funds....
...“In the last 15 years, real wages have barely grown,” said John Van Reenen, professor at the London School of Economics....
...Wood has long harboured ambitions to break into the $1.5tn European exchange traded fund market, but it was only last month that Ark took its first step with the acquisition of Rize ETF, a London-based company...
...Duncan Lamont is head of strategic research at Schroders. The UK pension fund system has emerged as a popular and convenient bogeyman for a range of woes afflicting Britain’s financial fortunes....
...The Future of Defence Ucits ETF, which debuted on July 4 on the London stock exchange, and Deutsche Börse’s Xetra market, seeks to provide exposure to companies generating revenues from spending on defence...
...The Buffettique Growth ETP (BUFF), which has launched on the London Stock Exchange available in sterling, euros and US dollars, aims to invest in stocks and funds that “relate to Warren Buffett’s investment...
...Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest has acquired a London-based exchange traded fund company in its first big push into Europe, as the Wall Street investor battles persistent outflows from her stable of US funds....
...The Foreign & Colonial Government Trust listed on the London stock exchange in 1868 with the explicit aim of allowing small investors to gain exposure to a diversified portfolio of government bonds....
...Kenneth Lamont, senior fund analyst for passive strategies at Morningstar, said the decision to apply a filter to the portfolio made sense....
...A little log thing the other day from Duncan Lamont at Schroders — hello, Duncan — was saying that actually, it’s fine to buy stocks at the high....
...London’s position as a global financial centre has been questioned and the thing that has made [London] so successful over the last 30-40 years has been deregulation and the embrace of new products,” Lamont...
...Many physical gold funds, including the 10 largest products, abide by the London Bullion Market Association’s responsible sourcing guidance....
...However, Lamont cautioned investors against rushing to sell now, as the company’s exit from the index has probably already been factored into the share price....
...“There are clearly those with a bullish sentiment out there,” said Kenneth Lamont, senior fund analyst for passive strategies at Morningstar....
...In the 1990s, Norman Lamont and Ken Clarke consulted the so-called Treasury wise men for advice and economic forecasting until the group was scrapped by Gordon Brown when he became chancellor in 1997....
...The opening ceremony was performed by Lord Norman Lamont, who had been the Conservative party chancellor of the exchequer on “Black Wednesday”, when Britain had exited the European Exchange Rate Mechanism...
...Odey Asset Management responded to questions from the FT via Duncan Lamont, a consultant at law firm Charles Russell Speechlys....
...Lord Norman Lamont, who was the Tory chancellor on “Black Wednesday” in 1992 when John Major’s government was humiliated by sterling’s ejection from the European exchange rate mechanism, said a U-turn was...
...But the recent shift in the macroeconomic environment could change that, said Duncan Lamont, head of the strategic research unit at London-based fund manager Schroders....
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