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...Mark Baribeau, a portfolio manager at Jennison Associates, thinks the company is among the best-positioned semiconductor groups for weathering the next year or two....
...Hedge funds snapped up Berkshire Hathaway stock in the second quarter, with DE Shaw, Renaissance Technologies and Bridgewater Associates buying millions of shares in Warren Buffett’s conglomerate....
...Edith Rousselot is our associate producer. Our editor is Karen Shakerdge. Amanda Kay Wang is our engineer. Music composition by Pascal Wyse. Fact-checking by Andrea Lopez Cruzado....
...When one son emerged from a playground clutching his wrist a few years ago, the GP receptionist sensibly told me to go straight to A&E....
...Other major brokerages including TD Ameritrade, Fidelity and E*Trade soon followed. Pershing eliminated transaction fees on equities and ETFs in March last year....
...In the next decade, however, they might increasingly become a weapon to promote ESG; or, more specifically, the goal of collective action on “E”....
...In 2012, it established a large warehouse in Hamburg city centre which is filled once a day and then serviced entirely with e-cycles....
...“It aims to allow China Inc to increasingly bypass traditional investment banks in accessing vast pools of retail capital via companies like Alipay and [Tencent’s] WeChat Pay,” Mr Silvers said....
...People associate it with free shipping,” Ngoc told Nikkei Asia....
...Eileen Murray, the outgoing co-chief executive of Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates, was appointed to the board of directors of real estate start-up Compass....
...Orrick has hired Latham & Watkins’ leveraged finance adviser Anthony Kay as a partner in London....
...Three Credit Suisse investors, including the bank’s largest shareholder Harris Associates, have declared themselves Team Thiam, unperturbed by a spying scandal that has rocked the Zurich establishment....
...“[Formula One] is fast, it’s sexy, it’s all about winning and those are messages with which they are trying to associate.”...
...“PG&E made everyone wake up and say this is for real and this isn’t going away,” said Christina Wong, director at Sustainability, a research consultancy....
...And non-smokers would associate a product made by a tobacco company with cigarettes,” he said. Tobacco groups on the whole say that e-cigarettes are aimed at existing smokers....
...“I worked closely with her on the design of the exhibition,’ recalls David E Bright, senior vice-president of communications at Knoll....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on March 22 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...There’s also a 250-seat concert hall, and every Sunday a recital is given by students from the Amsterdam conservatoires or van Zweden’s friends and associates....
...“Have you seen the movie WALL-E?...
...The rise of e-commerce, competition from fast fashion and off-price retailers, declining mall traffic and consumers’ tendency to expect deep promotions has hamstrung the industry....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on October 24 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Mr Lilien was once chief operating officer of E* Trade, the US retail brokerage....
...New hires include Mike Cooke, formerly at TA Associates on technology investments, has joined as vice-president. Bilal Chaudhry, who worked at KKR, is now senior associate at Apax....
...Rakuten began offering English classes, e-learning, apps and one-to-one help....
...I wonder whether the roles are now being reversed, as the man raised on bricks-and-mortar underestimates just how much e-commerce is upending his world....
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