Hints and tips:
...The financier disagrees with DeSantis’s ongoing battle with Disney over the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which restricts school teaching about gender and sexuality....
...A September study by Nasdaq chief economist Phil Mackintosh found that shorting activity hadn’t increased noticeably compared with earlier years....
...By and large, the Blair government wasn’t too bad.”...
...Haley campaign officials have used Trump’s threat to their advantage, selling T-shirts that say, “Barred. Permanently”....
...My colleague Costas Mourselas and I interviewed one high-profile financier who (unsurprisingly) does not agree: Ken Griffin. “Well he would, wouldn’t he?”...
...If you haven’t seen Ken Griffin’s latest interview with our colleagues at mainFT, it’s worth checking out. Alphaville has some thoughts on it, which we’re going to subject you to....
...Read the full analysis here and don’t miss FT Alphaville’s take on it too. How does this story end? Email me: harriet.agnew@ft.com While you were away . . ....
...I follow triggerfish that look like surprised party balloons with Ken Dodd teeth....
...Or, if you decide you don’t, go find something else. But please don’t think you can spend the next five years moaning.”...
...Acosta himself remains in superb shape — his ripped abdomen rivals Ryan Gosling’s Ken doll — and his stamina is phenomenal....
...The so-called multi-manager method was pioneered by Ken Griffin’s Citadel and Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management....
...“I’m just riffin’ so I can impress Ken Griffin,’” he told the crowd of some 10,000 people, according to people who attended, and, “If my band ever goes under, maybe I’ll become a hedge funder.”...
...Bridgewater offers different flavours of its strategy and we don’t know how much of its estimated $150bn of assets under management are in Pure Alpha, the more leveraged Pure Alpha II, its risk parity funds...
...but in aggregate… we shouldn’t underestimate how seismic [the UK’s reforms] are”....
...He may chew through portfolio managers like they’re rare steaks, but Ken really is the apex predator of finance today....
...“I don’t disagree with a deep geological facility, but people have a right to understand what they are being asked to accept....
...“Ideas, they’re bulletproof,” T said. Even whistling the tune could have legal repercussions if the injunction is granted, according to barrister Ken KC Lee. “It will be a sweeping move,” he said....
...The best gift I’ve ever been given was from Ken Tyrrell, when I retired from motor racing. He gave me the Tyrrell that I won my first world championship with. It was a terrible car....
...“It may reduce corruption, but I don’t know if that’s better for democracy.”...
...Ken is similar in his field,” says Lloyd Blankfein, the former chief executive of Goldman Sachs and a friend of Griffin....
...When she isn’t speaking, Dench sometimes gazes at the floor....
...Griffin has been critical of cryptocurrencies in the past, describing them in October as “a jihadist call that we don’t believe in the dollar”....
...“I can’t believe he has proposed a hemispherical House of Commons,” Powell wrote. “Are you sure you want to go ahead with this project?”...
...“I don’t think of myself as a minimalist. I never did.”...
...“We don’t try to be all things to all people and we don’t apologise for that,” says Zhao. “Much of how I approach things, much of how I value things . . . I learned from Ken.”...
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