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...“Direct lending has the ability to structure and price out different levels of risk . . . that public markets often don’t,” said Craig Packer, a co-president of Blue Owl Capital....
...His firm, Aurum Partners, has invested in Silicon Valley start-ups like shoemaker Allbirds and file sharing platform Dropbox....
...“This isn’t a fancy party.”...
...Scheer on Bräunerstrasse is an old shoemaker that once made shoes for the emperor – they still have the original wooden model....
...“Don’t write about it,” my colleague said. “Please!”...
...Most of the time I live in Switzerland and my home there overlooks Mont Blanc and Lake Geneva, and it’s beautiful. But the Western Highlands have no competitor....
...“We can’t ignore the impact this is having on our country....
...It is possible that the people who drove down the public access dock and launched their pontoon on to Idlewild Lake on July 4 didn’t know exactly where they were....
...Or you can head for Hashimoto station on the JR Yokohama line, which is closer to Lake Tsukui....
...She added: “When you see a crop of potential candidates like that, you think: don’t you get out much? What are you missing?”...
...Buster Keaton wasn’t even first across the ground with Sherlock Jr in 1924, although he did it with such invention as to become the benchmark....
...Logan doesn’t push his kids to flatter him, like Donald Trump did when he interviewed Donald Jr and Ivanka on camera. But he has fixed expectations: he wants his children to be like him....
...Now they are trying to get butchers, shoemakers and ice-cream salesmen to stand up and fight.”...
...I’m not sad, I don’t want your pity. I want change.”...
...“She’s eight: she shouldn’t have to be afraid the police are going to shoot her.” The shooting of Mr Blake has deeply affected the black community....
...Nestled between Ohio and New York along Lake Erie on the border with Canada, it backed Mr Trump in 2016, the first Republican win there since Ronald Reagan in 1984....
...If convicted he might have to trade in his jet-set life for a drab federal prison cell,” said FBI assistant director William F Sweeney Jr in a statement....
...Pavillon Cambon Capucines — where Paris St Germain forward Neymar Jr held his birthday party — is about a mile away....
...Don’t miss our Special Report: Amazon conservation . (FT)...
...Why wouldn’t they?...
...(WaPo) Michael Dell Following up on Tuesday’s lead DD item, here’s a deeper look at how Michael Dell’s financial engineering created a fortune for him and Silver Lake....
...Even if you don’t much care about London’s coffee scene, this is an important question....
...Sign up to receive FirstFT by email here The Trump administration’s Russia problem just doesn’t go away....
...“But I’m like, ‘you don’t need me: you got you . . . this is my art; now do your f**cking art!’.”...
...“People who participate in certain decisions often don’t hold any formal posts at all,” Mr Minchenko told Meduza, the Latvia-based Russian online newspaper, in December....
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