Hints and tips:
...I’m Italian-American — or, as Stanley Tucci likes to put it, “I am Italian on both sides.” — and I grew up with a bunch of weird food traditions that I never bothered to question until I was much older....
...Tony Yates, macroeconomic policy unit research associate at the Resolution Foundation: No....
...“My greatest concern is the lack of a central marketplace,” says Laszlo Birinyi, the founder of Birinyi Associates, who saw Black Monday unravel from the trading room at Salomon Brothers....
...Along the way she met Keith Green, an aspiring chef, but they later separated....
...I spot a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting on the wall, alongside works by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Tracey Emin....
...Michael Maduell, president of the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, a US-based consultancy, said: “The Gulf sovereign funds have dumped a bunch of [asset managers] and that has been a very big deal for the...
...Alex Koriath is head of the UK pensions practice at Cambridge Associates...
...Grayden: After I exchanged to Singapore, I joined a trip to Burma with a bunch of other Insead students....
...The Balsillies were a complicated bunch....
...The most popular trades are equity return swaps, according to a survey by Greenwich Associates last year of 185 hedge funds and institutions....
...Tom Stabile is associate editor of FundFire, a Financial Times service...
...of knobs to working with a bunch of dicks!’...
...“Bonds and interest rates have been a consistent performer for us all year,” says Keith Balmer, a portfolio manager at the giant computer-driven fund AHL, the flagship $21bn fund of the Man Group....
...Groupon, which offers daily deals in 50 or so cities, is the pioneer among the bunch, and received $30m of its own from Accel and New Enterprise Associates late last year....
...Damon Silvers, the AFL-CIO’s associate general counsel, argues that a failure properly to police Blackstone’s IPO could significantly damage both investors in its shares and workers in its portfolio companies...
...“Right now, it is just a bunch of cattle running for water,” says one industry observer. “The ones at the front of the queue are going to have the advantage.”...
...Far from a bunch of disgruntled ex-workers (or Wal-Mart’s imaginative term “associates”), the flood of speakers ranges from small-town family firms bulldozed out of business by the leviathan, to Wal-Mart...
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