Hints and tips:
...Becket at Psigma favours US large-cap growth funds, such as Montag & Caldwell’s, complemented by specialist funds that capture industry disruption, such as the RobecoSAM Smart Materials fund....
...It involved Vincent Humbert, a volunteer firefighter left a quadriplegic by a car accident when aged 19....
...Giamatti’s aide, friend and successor Francis “Fay” Vincent told USA Today last year, after Mr Rose had shown some contrition: “If he had done this 25 years ago, or was better advised, it might be different...
...Last month, Cuba’s Malpaso troupe featured a Ronald K. Brown premiere for its North American debut, and next week the Ailey company includes his breakout, 1999 hit Grace in its Lincoln Center season....
...Korean, or K-Pop, groups are in vogue now. But global blockbuster hits, in whatever genre, have come to seem a US niche market....
...K-pop is meticulously choreographed by producers who relentlessly drill their charges into a bland soufflé until Justin Bieber looks to be full of soul by comparison....
...Sir, Christopher Caldwell (February 11) took a broad swing at Dickens’ turn of phrase, illustrating it with a passage about the Veneering household....
...In 1993, Mr Mortenson claims, he turned back from an attempt to climb K-2, got lost, and wandered into a desperately poor mountain village....
...The writer is an FT columnist More columns at www.ft.com/caldwell...
...For one thing, the complaint correctly states, “his right of first publication of a sequel is …of great monetary value.” Last year, J.K. Rowling sued the compiler of a reader’s guide to Harry Potter....
...In the US, it is in the 401(k)s and other private retirement funds set up to replace old corporate pensions....
...“Merrill has a way of being very hard on outsiders coming in,” says Thomas Caldwell of Caldwell Financial in Toronto. “It’s a unique culture....
...The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard More columns at www.ft.com/caldwell...
...A word, too, for the Money team lead by Matthew Vincent whose hard work has done so much to sharpen the section and boost readership numbers....
...Smith’s five-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, may inherit a lot of money. Who is the father? Public records say it is Smith’s lawyer, Howard K. Stern, whom she married in the wake of her son’s death....
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