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.... - Tom P.S. Have we reached peak coal? Read to the end....
...Monday India, February consumer price index inflation rate data US, S&P Global purchasing managers’ index business outlook survey US, January labour market statistics Results: BuzzFeed Q4, Direct Line...
...Of the stocks in the S&P 500, 129 have recorded gains while 175 stocks have already recorded losses of more than 20 per cent....
...(Disclosure: I am a non-executive director of an unrelated Gresham House fund that invests in energy storage.)...
...Ms Skeates, who will be based in London, previously worked in a similar role at S&P Dow Jones Indices....
...Examples used by L&C include the Foresight Solar fund and Gresham House’s new Energy Storage fund....
...The writer is a professor at both London Business School and Gresham College Should the US rein in share buybacks?...
...• Michael Hart has joined Gresham House, the UK-listed asset manager, as head of distribution. He previously worked for Amundi....
...Greg also reported that the pioneering commodities investor Gresham was dropping its long-only investment policy and setting up funds to allow it to place bets on falling prices....
...RP Martin’s chief executive, David “Mustard” Caplin stepped down in 2013....
...Should we amend Gresham’s famous law — bad money drives out good — to a new law — bad indexing drives out good? Not entirely. Since 1993, both types of index funds have grown rapidly....
...The S&P GSCI and Dow Jones-UBS are respectively down 2.6 per cent and down 10.6 per cent on a total return basis in 2013....
...Douglas Hepworth, executive vice-president at Gresham Investment Management, says fears about inflation have not gone away....
...The S&P GSCI, the most widely followed commodities benchmark, has delivered a -8.9 per cent total return over the two years to June 30....
...- “Gresham’s Law in the Senate,” or, Rand Paul’s filibuster. - Apple, skin in the game, and leverage. - Seven degrees of Francis Bacon....
...And over the five years to end December 2011, the S&P GSCI total return was down 3.2 per cent....
...US futures suggest Wall Street’s S&P 500 will start its session with a fall of 0.2 per cent....
...In May this year the fund eliminated its commodities allocation and ended the mandates of managers Schroders and Gresham Investment Management, citing “volatility within commodity investments”....
...The “Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp” is a remarkable piece of writing, in which Radford analyses the economic institutions that arose in tough circumstances....
...The shares rose 2¼p to 88¾p as the figures were slightly better than analysts had expected and the company also lifted its target for cost savings over three years from £20m to £30m....
...The outflow was concentrated in swaps that track commodity indices such as the S&P GSCI or Dow Jones-UBS....
...Shares in Smiths News rose 2½p, or 2.1 per cent, to 120½p. The board recommended an interim dividend of 2.4p (2.2p). Diluted earnings per share were flat at 6.8p....
...Shares in Spice rose 4½p to 42p on Monday....
...But last year, the benchmark S&P GSCI total return index plunged alongside other asset classes, while the HFRX Commodity hedge fund index climbed nearly 15 per cent....
...Livestock, which makes up 4.3 per cent of the S&P GSCI commodities index, would be a non-starter....
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