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...One listen to start: On the latest Behind the Money podcast, the FT’s US financial editor Brooke Masters and DD’s Antoine Gara explain why BlackRock’s Larry Fink decided to acquire GIP, and how this deal...
...Bernard Arnault’s succession dilemma The world’s richest person has spent decades preparing his children to run LVMH, The Wall Street Journal writes....
...It used to be home to George Bernard Shaw. The view didn’t suck. A couple of nice dinners and a West End show later, I don’t recall ever losing an account....
...Anderson, who considers as his mentor Harry Markopolos, the investigator known for sounding the alarm on Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, founded the business six years ago....
...Activists circle Benioff’s Salesforce For most of Marc Benioff’s rise from seller of arcane corporate software to Silicon Valley titan, he had an obvious target in his former boss, Oracle founder Larry...
...Among these is Delphine Arnault, executive vice-president of Louis Vuitton, a member of LVMH’s board of directors and executive committee and daughter of its billionaire owner Bernard Arnault....
...A group of 19 investors, including Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and the Qatar Investment Authority, have agreed to put in $7.1bn....
...The billionaire entrepreneur recently revealed $7.14bn in funding from a surprising assembly of his deep-pocketed friends and faithful supporters including Larry Ellison and Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed...
...He also invited the economist Larry Summers and the then JPMorgan banker, Jes Staley....
...Calico, a biotech company focused on longevity and funded by Google co-founder Larry Page, has been around since 2013 but new fields have since cropped up, such as liquid computers targeted to shut down...
...And on the flipside, if the world has indeed reached peak oil demand, as BP chief executive Bernard Looney suggested last year, the market should eventually take care of things on its own....
...This week Larry Fink, head of BlackRock, urged chief executives to embrace higher ESG standards....
...But not if LVMH boss Bernard Arnault could help it....
...No battle captured that dynamic better than when LVMH boss Bernard Arnault tried to scare US jeweller Tiffany into cutting the price of his planned $16.6bn takeover....
...Larry Fink, the legendary chairman and chief executive of BlackRock, the asset manager with some $6.5tn under management, believes sustainable companies will outperform the rest in the long run: “They will...
...BP, under new chief executive Bernard Looney, recently promised to be net zero by 2050....
...For years, Mr Markopolos tried to claim the scalp of Bernard Madoff, pleading with regulators to investigate the respected Wall Street kingpin, whose investment fund seemed to earn preternaturally steady...
...Harry Markopolos, below, the financial investigator who is known for his largely unheeded warnings on Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, released a report that said GE was hiding $38bn in losses in a fraud “...
...This includes Larry Fink at BlackRock, Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan, Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Jeff Bezos at Amazon....
...There is also historical concern about consumer protection, with people looking back to scandals such as the cross-border sale of Luxembourg funds that were exposed to US fraudster Bernard Madoff’s $50bn...
...GE chief executive Larry Culp called the report “market manipulation — pure and simple”. Other fund managers also piled on the criticism....
...But the Mets ran into some financial trouble because of investments by Wilpon and Saul Katz, his business partner and brother-in-law, with Bernard Madoff....
...Smart reads Europe’s $100bn man Bernard Arnault’s four decade-long acquisition spree was capped last week with the purchase of US jeweller Tiffany & Co....
...Larry Culp, GE’s chief executive, called that arrangement “market manipulation — pure and simple”....
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