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...Jurassic Park The UK stock market is struggling to attract tech listings. It must boost valuations and shake its dinosaur image, or risk extinction, Lex writes....
...By merging Apollo with Athene Holding, the insurance company that he helped to create a decade ago, Rowan is turning a nimble asset manager into a lumbering insurance company that itself carries more than...
...Only weeks after criticising his father’s news outlets for promoting false scepticism about climate change, James Murdoch, below, is using his holding company Lupa Systems — which was created with part of...
...Waymo’s quest to solve the human aspects of driverless cars has been limited so far to people inside the vehicle....
...The deal to sell the group has not gone as smoothly as planned, however, with various interested parties in Snapdeal holding out for higher valuations....
...To a significant degree, analysts say, the exodus of Chinese investment capital is in fact a “quest for cash flow”....
...Larry Page, chief executive, told the Financial Times last year that regulations about the use of personal health data were holding back medical research and limiting the use of services such as Google Health...
...While it is too early to say how many of these vehicles will justify the fees they pay to their managers, the quest for permanent capital is already changing the alternative investment management industry...
...Empire State Realty Trust, whose properties include New York’s Empire State Building, received an lukewarm reception on its stock market debut, culminating an almost two-year quest to take the landmark skyscraper...
...“What we’re primarily interested in is our return on investment,” Ahmad al-Sayed, Qatar Holding’s CEO, has said....
...But as VW seemingly goes from strength to strength in its quest to become the world’s biggest carmaker, the incident serves as a big warning to the company and its shareholders as well as the broader German...
...The take-up of catastrophe bonds by asset managers on the quest for yield is surging as the insurance-linked securities pay a floating rate coupon of 5-15 per cent over the London interbank borrowing rate...
...… QPR quest ends Lakshmi Mittal, the steel magnate, is ready to walk away from Queens Park Rangers weeks before it makes a triumphant return to the Premier League....
...It numbers about 200 chief executives and the delegation is holding business summits in both Mumbai and Delhi that will seek opportunities to boost bilateral trade estimated at $50bn this year....
...Volkswagen’s fervent quest to overtake Japanese rival Toyota by 2018 threatens to exacerbate its already high cost structure and to hamper profitability in the coming years, analysts and industry executives...
...Even so, a proliferation of “free chequeing with rewards” offers as part of a post-crisis bank drive for deposits suggests a lingering quest for quantity over quality....
...Still more fateful was HRE’s search for diversification via an acquisition – a quest that led to Depfa....
...The 18 per cent fall in Barclays’ share price on Friday signals that, in its quest to go it alone, it has already given away far too much....
...The Chicago Mercantile Exchange and CBOT Holdings revised the terms of their merger agreement on Friday, ahead of a shareholder vote on the deal on Monday....
...But in the never-ending quest for the next great idea, investors often give short shrift to their existing investments....
...Mr Becht’s holding is currently worth £65m....
...Oil Quest Resources, the oil and gas exploration group, rose 3.5 per cent to 14¾p after director David Racher bought 57,000 shares at 15p per share....
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