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...But Buffett has said he and Abel “think alike on acquisitions. We think alike on capital allocation.”...
...Last year, Abel told CNBC that Combs and Weschler ran their own portfolios “and that’s the way it’ll always be, and they’ll manage it accordingly”. “I may ask them: ‘That was really interesting....
...Abel will have more authority and will ultimately have control of the conglomerate — which has more than $1tn of assets — after Buffett dies....
...Long notorious as the wild man of American cinema, director Abel Ferrara moved more than 20 years ago to Italy, where he has been increasingly preoccupied with spiritual matters....
...Warren Buffett said Greg Abel should have the final decision on investments at Berkshire Hathaway, the US and Europe disagree on how to manage Russia’s frozen assets, and Chinese President Xi Jinping visits...
...Abel will be tested on multiple fronts....
...O’Kane earned A$171mn between 2018 and 2023 as his division’s profit soared from A$1.6bn to a record A$6bn....
...His brother Sammy — eight years older — played bassoon, and on Saturdays would take Abel to the African Cultural Organisation of South Africa, an outreach school in Soweto: “Sammy almost chose the cello...
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...While at Macquarie, O’Kane turned the Australian bank into an energy trading power house and had been tipped as a possible next chief executive....
...The 93-year-old Buffett and his anointed successor Greg Abel have been watching as billions of dollars of liabilities accumulate at Berkshire’s energy division, where its largest electric utility is wrestling...
...Simons summed up his career at a 2022 event organised by the Abel Prize for mathematics: “I did a lot of math, I made a lot of money, and I gave almost all of it away.”...
...Nick O’Kane had been one of Macquarie’s most feted executives after a modest bet on the US energy trading market was transformed into its largest and most profitable division....
...Macquarie’s third-quarter trading was weaker than expected across the board according to UBS and issued a soft outlook in its asset management and investment banking operations....
...Marco Dunand, head of Swiss energy trader Mercuria Energy, has indicated that Nick O’Kane, the former star trader at Macquarie, will take on a senior job at the company to help its “overstretched” management...
...It also illustrates the combustible mix of politics and a fast-changing landscape that Abel will have to navigate to keep energy part of Berkshire’s sweet spot....
...But he rather overdoes his intercutting of clips from Abel Gance’s 1927 epic Napoléon, a formative influence for the young designer — and not necessarily a benign one. ★★★☆☆ In UK cinemas from March 8...
...The trickery and treachery of rival siblings is epitomised in the stories of Adam’s sons Cain and Abel, of Jacob’s double deception of his older twin Esau, and then of Jacob’s sons against his youngest,...
...A spokesperson for Signa Prime’s administrator, Norbert Abel, confirmed outline details of the restructuring plan but declined to comment further....
...Warren Buffett said Greg Abel should have the final decision on investments at Berkshire Hathaway, handing his successor responsibility for how hundreds of billions of dollars are allocated....
...In 2013, Kering acquired 51 per cent of the eponymous brand, having described Kane as “both a precocious and truly gifted talent”....
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