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...And when it did broach difficult or provocative subjects — like in 2011’s “Palestinian Chicken” — it did so in a way that was perfectly pitched between irreverence and understanding....
...Larry Fink faces a proxy challenge to his dual role as chair and chief executive of BlackRock from a UK activist investor that wants more board oversight of the $10tn money manager’s approach to sustainable...
...More than half of BlackRock’s $10tn in assets under management are retirement savings, including institutional pension funds, corporate defined contribution plans known as 401(k)s and individual accounts...
...Callie Cox is US investment analyst at eToro. This year might’ve been a good one for the stock market. Yet it may have been a disaster for your portfolio....
...Since January 2020, the price of a single-family home in the US has increased by 46 per cent, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index. With gains of 5.5 per cent in the year to December....
...borrowing from the bank isn’t ‘free’ and isn’t easy [to secure], real estate does not have the shine it had before,” explains Rob Fleischman, a technology entrepreneur and investor, who is chair of Tiger 21’s...
...While the episode doesn’t reach the vertiginous heights of the series’ best — 2011’s “Palestinian Chicken” seems more incisive now than ever — it says something about Curb’s enduring brilliance that even...
...It was filmmaker Lindsay Anderson (who directed him in 1975’s In Celebration), he says, who taught him the value of stillness, a quality he used to great (and sometimes deadly) effect in Succession....
...Price gains in certain US cities have far outstripped the national average, which is up 6.7 per cent since its January low, according to the S&P Case-Shiller national index....
...I think this stems from fear and uncertainty,” BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink told analysts on Friday....
...The head of F1’s governing body told the FT last week it was “damaging the sport”....
...Fifty-four of the 100 largest US public companies do it, said BlackRock in rejecting a challenge concerning Larry Fink’s dual chair and chief executive roles....
...Hasbro, which owns licensing deals with Disney to make Marvel toys, increased pay for chief executive Chris Cox by 60 per cent in 2023, the company reported....
...Equally, the few who correctly predicted inflation’s rise, such as Larry Summers, were too pessimistic about how entrenched it was. Inflation is poorly understood, and devilish to forecast....
...Friday interview: Larry Summers Larry Summers — former Harvard president and Treasury secretary, and new OpenAI board member — is one of the most influential economists of our time....
...Frank Hester, a healthcare technology entrepreneur who donated £10mn to the Tories last year, reportedly said in 2019 that looking at Abbott made “you just want to hate all Black women” and that she “need[s]...
...My first thought was: what the hell is Brian Cox doing here?...
...Between 1995 and 2002, who was the third host of BBC1’s The Generation Game, following Bruce Forsyth and Larry Grayson? Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
...Information technology companies make up only 1 per cent of the FTSE 100; in the S&P 500, it’s 29 per cent....
...And as Callie Cox also noted here before Christmas, 2023 WAS truly “one weird-looking bull market”....
...Larry Fink’s empire accounted for almost 10 per cent of MSCI’s overall revenues in 2023, according to the company’s latest 10-Q....
...And so if you want to invest in something that tracks the S&P 500 or the FTSE 100, you can buy a BlackRock fund that does that. And they have lots and lots of them....
...During that time, the S&P 500 is up about 150 per cent....
...and that “S&C knew, or was in a position to know, that FTX was co-mingling customer assets”....
...The S&P 500 closed down almost 1 per cent with roughly nine in every 10 stocks losing ground....
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