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...“I think you’d have to have been under a rock if you didn’t,” said one. “Literally under a rock.”...
...Trust me when I say as an ex-law enforcement person, we want to lock up the bad guys,” one former law enforcement official told me over the phone....
...I’ll be away next week, but I’ll be leaving you in the very capable hands of my colleague, Philip Stafford, and I’ll be back in your inbox on Friday September 23. Have a great weekend!...
...I meet Mr Gore in a windowless function room in the Davos Congress Centre in Switzerland. Covering asset management, it is as close as it gets to meeting a rock star backstage....
...Michael Hatchwell is a corporate partner at Gordon Dadds LLP and specialises in international transactions and looking after families’ assets and businesses Rock festivals I own a house in the country...
...As one top investment banker in New York put it: “I only want [Brunswick’s Steve] Lipin, Joele [Frank], George [Sard] and a few others . . . I don’t care about the firm. It’s all about the people.”...
...“I think the clean out of the distressed assets has largely happened,” he said....
...It pays $10m and lends $90m to Bolz LLP, a small Kazakh company 3....
...Westlife’s “I Have a Dream” topped Britain’s music charts at the end of 1999....
...I have to say when I look back in the last three years it feels as if the sun only rose each day to humiliate me after that point....
...“I think capital will begin to be more attracted to companies that are showing they run an ethical business. We have seen that in private equity,” adds Mr Florman....
...Van Halen were an eighties hair rock band who insisted brown M&Ms were removed from backstage sweet bowls. Critics perceived overweening entitlement....
...Tight oil involves the extraction of crude oil from rock formations using similar technologies as in shale gas extraction....
...“I wasn’t listening. I knew I was an entrepreneur. I had found this great gap in the market.” But without any real understanding of the mechanics of a business, he was bankrupt by 25....
...Related links: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bubble – FT Alphaville Help to Buy, the banks, and the borrowers - FT Alphaville Dark inventory, death of a city edition – FT Alphaville...
...Indeed, the ideal fantasy fund manager is perhaps not the striker, but the tireless midfielder or the rock-solid centre-back....
...Audit firms have been stuck between a rock and a hard place....
...“Even if my house did increase in value by 20 per cent, I’m not in a position to realise that,” he says. “And I don’t own my house to make a profit – I own it to live in.”...
...announcement it was launching administrative proceedings against the Big Four audit firms (plus BDO)’s Chinese affiliates was dramatic, but big audit firms in China have for some time been stuck between a rock...
...HMV’s administrator Deloitte is attempting to pay rock-bottom prices to buy up the CDs, DVDs and video games provided to it under a loan arrangement, in a move that is being resisted by some suppliers....
...I am not picking on Yum Brands for any reason other than they were the first MNC I saw when I looked out my window....
...I am personally worried. It’s a risk.” Remember, Arthur Andersen had a disproportionate focus on the huge fees it earnt from consulting to Enron compared to the audit....
...I don’t think there is any danger of the market overheating.” Fred Redwood was a guest of Knight Frank …………………………………………………………….....
...The bulbous steel and mirrored-glass office nearly became home to Schroders, the investment manager, before turmoil in the eurozone drove the deal on to the rocks....
...I’m sorry that I can’t offer you an easy answer that will not “rock the boat”....
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