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...Quantitative funds have gained 12 per cent for the year to the end of March, according to an index compiled by Société Générale. Read more on those funds that are profiting....
...The eight that have expanded abroad in the past year had combined annual revenues of less than $3bn in 2022. By comparison, Kirkland & Ellis in the US alone reported $6.5bn in the same period....
...What else we’re reading Pimco: navigating the end of the bond bull market After a three-decade boom, investors have pulled a combined $100bn out of US bond mutual funds and exchange traded funds this year...
...Business, Pennsylvania....
...Today there are nearly twice as many jobs in clean energy around the Pennsylvania city as there are in steel, gas and coal combined. The president is acting for a world of yesterday, not tomorrow....
...(Financial Times) Hedge funds warned over leveraged CLO deals: A handful of hedge funds have attracted controversy by borrowing from big investment banks to buy the structured products the banks sell....
...than western offerings....
...They included the 2008 effort to privatise the Pennsylvania Turnpike, aimed specifically at raising funds to repair the state’s bridges....
...The combined fossil fuel investments held by each city amount to a tiny fraction of the total value of the immense oil, gas and coal industries, and it is far from clear that the politicians backing divestment...
...First of all, the CKGSB MBA runs a one-year, indigenous curriculum not influenced by a western MBA partner....
...In the presidential debate on foreign policy, Israel got almost seven times more mentions than all western European nations combined, calculates foreignpolicy.com....
...from private equity firms or sovereign wealth funds....
...The latest challenger is Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator, who has surged to the top of national polls of conservative voters and even leads Mr Romney in the state in which he was born, Michigan...
...Then there are the retail kings, such as the Walton family, owners of Walmart, whose combined assets equal that of America’s bottom 150 million people....
...While he tied Mr Santorum for the vote of Ohio Republicans earning less than $30,000 per year, Mr Romney lost to the former Pennsylvania senator in the key middle- income categories of $30,000 to $100,000...
...The concept of Ordnungspolitik – the practical application of ordo-liberalism – was combined with the idea of a Soziale Marktwirtschaft, an economy requiring income redistribution and generous welfare safety...
...Even so, many pension funds are deeply in deficit; Joshua Rauh of Northwestern University pegs the liability at $14,165 per household in America’s 50 largest cities....
...It is in this spirit that the African Development Bank jointly with the governments of Denmark and Spain is setting up an African Guarantee Fund (AGF) for small and medium enterprises (SMEs)....
...M&T, which has $68bn in assets and 750 branches in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland, wanted to maintain control of the combined entity....
...of the Grand Challenges in Global Health fund....
...Franklin Allen of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, worries that if long-term interest rates rise, as is likely, Italy will be hard pressed to raise taxes or cut expenditure to offset...
...Pennsylvania, Florida and Missouri....
...sought bail-outs from the International Monetary Fund, and many countries showed signs of economic slowdown....
...He has a gem of a subject and, as well as a fund of anecdotes, he provides a clear-eyed, unsentimental portrait of a brilliant tyrant....
...They have a combined capacity of less than 2,000 for a population of about 35,000, about 70 per cent of whom are of school age. Even so, Mr Colóm has shown several weaknesses....
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