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...November marked 2023’s best month of inflows for exchange traded funds globally, with a net $127.5bn invested — almost double October’s tally of $66bn and the highest since December 2021’s record $155.7bn...
...That makes him 2024’s potential Ralph Nader, the Green party candidate who in 2000 siphoned support from Al Gore. The winner was George W Bush. This time it would be Donald Trump....
...(Another being S’Estaca, now the holiday home of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.)...
...This was the second-highest figure on record, behind 2021’s $1.3tn....
...Grand Hotel Son Net, s/n Puigpunyent, Mallorca 07194; sonnet.es. Double rooms from €800; suites from €1,200...
...Paul Richardson’s new book ‘Hidden Valley: Finding Freedom in Spain’s Deep Country’ is published by Abacus (£20) Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...Merlin Entertainments has appointed Karim Hajjar as chief financial officer....
...Kimber Lee’s spikily witty untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play, now running at London’s Young Vic, examines the way stereotypes can become embedded and reinforced through repetition in art....
...Enlightenment by Sarah Perry (Jonathan Cape)The bestselling author of 2016’s eerie, gothicky The Essex Serpent and 2018’s Melmoth returns with a new story set again in eastern England, following a pair of...
...The Icelandic composer’s doomy 2018 Metacosmos imagines a journey through a black hole, while 2021’s Catamorphosis ponders the climate emergency....
...“This is a wealth platform, not a day trading platform,” adds Rahim Karim, an analyst at Investec, who called the company a “trusted player with a track record of delivery”....
...Chedid noted that a notional “S&P 492” — the flagship index robbed of its eight largest constituents — is actually down a fraction this year....
...“A lot of credit exposures saw more buying, so the asset mix shifted [from a safe haven play],” said Karim Chedid, head of investment strategy for BlackRock’s iShares arm in the Emea region....
...“They’re diversified across asset classes and a key differentiator versus peers is that they actually have scale and a track record,” said Karim Laib, an equity analyst at T Rowe Price....
...“Nothing gets invested unless it’s insured,” Richardson said....
...ETFs attracted net inflows of $867bn globally during the year, the second-highest on record after 2021’s $1.29tn peak, according to data from BlackRock, despite the market crash....
...But as Karim Fawaz, an analyst at S&P Global, points out, the success of the policy has been helped by a loose crude market, with lower prices and excess supply....
...Total net inflows were markedly higher than February’s meagre $23.3bn, yet Karim Chedid, head of investment strategy for BlackRock’s iShares arm in the Emea region, said that although “we have seen a pick-up...
...Since the start of October, the Euro Stoxx 600 index has risen 19.1 per cent and the MSCI China index 24.3 per cent, both ahead of the 16.2 per cent gain of the S&P 500....
...“The UK has seen some inflows,” agreed Karim Chedid, head of investment strategy for BlackRock’s iShares arm in the Emea region....
...“It’s definitely been more bullish,” said Karim Chedid, head of investment strategy for BlackRock’s iShares ETF arm in the Emea region....
...The area also boasts a brewery as well as the Banana Block, an events space in a former linen mill, so named because of its connection with William Richardson, the gardener who managed to grow the fruit...
...The S&P 500 closed 0.1 per cent lower, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.4 per cent per cent....
...Ian Katz, Channel 4’s director of programming, claims a for-profit purchaser would never risk such material, saying it’s “probably not a rational commercial approach”....
...Set in April 2024, Channel 4’s new alternate-future drama finds Britain in an even more unstable situation than today....
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