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...Christel Rendu de Lint, head of investments at fund firm Vontobel, said many investors had been responding to the escalating tensions by seeking funds that would invest in emerging markets but exclude China...
...“Colleagues would often cite that their wives would shun anything that was second-hand due to [a perceived lack of] cleanliness and bad vibes,” she says....
...JPMorgan Chase has promoted Virginie de Grivel Nigam, currently head of its equity-linked business in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, to head of equity capital markets for the UK and Ireland....
...For overseas Uighurs, the de facto outlawing of their core culture is an alarming sign of the government’s underlying intention: assimilating Uighurs into a single “state-race”....
...He shuns the Parisian social scene, preferring to spend evenings with his two younger children or playing chess against his computer — and sometimes winning....
...(FT) Patagonia sheds corporate vests Outerwear company Patagonia will stop offering the branded fleece vests that have become de facto uniforms from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, except for “mission-driven...
...The FT’s Rob Smith has a story today on the latest complication....
...Andrew Goodwin: The most immediate question that Andrew Bailey should consider is whether the MPC has been right to diverge from other central banks and shun interest rate cuts....
...Mr Smith agrees. “My advice to most people is to go passive. They are cheaper and offer better returns over the long run....
...Some providers, such as Phoenix, which is closed to new with-profiits business, shun annual bonuses in preference of final payouts which only benefit policyholders who hold on to their policies....
...Corporate person in the news: Sir Julian Horn-Smith Sir Julian Horn-Smith has a contrarian take on the City’s most public corporate governance debacle in recent times, write Christopher Thompson and Guy...
...de Reya’s director of business development....
...Today, it tells me I will be at the crème de la crème of colourful tech conferences in Los Angeles....
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