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...Revolut and the Japanese investor had been locked in months of negotiations — internally codenamed “Project Swan” — with SoftBank demanding stiff compensation for giving up its priority class of shares,...
...The US bank’s move added to the turmoil to hit the firm, which told clients it had closed Odey’s Swan fund and had stopped investors from withdrawing money from two others run by its subsidiary, Brook Asset...
...Regarding the Odey Swan Fund, the partnership is considering options to put to the fund’s board, which may include its closure....
...UK-based Schroders said on Friday that it had sold its remaining investments in Odey’s Swan fund, which Schroders held in two of its multi-manager products....
...“To have a whole company of people that you’ve chosen,” Marston says in her office overlooking Zürich’s swan-friendly lake. “What a joy.”...
...Now try this I had a wonderful weekend: among other things I went to see Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House....
...Yesterday, deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden was unable to give a straight answer when asked by Sky’s Trevor Phillips if it was racist or by the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg if it was Islamophobic....
...Odey Asset Management said last week it was closing the Odey Swan fund, which was managed by Crispin Odey, and had suspended trading in four other funds, including Special Situations, Brook Developed Markets...
...The motifs have a contrastingly retro feel: blowsy red roses or stylised swans in kitschy ice-cream hues owe a debt to her fascination with Elvis Presley and Graceland....
...The firm this week sent letters to investors saying the €117mn Odey Swan fund would be liquidated and money returned to clients....
...“There are several dozen markets which could be subject to LDI-style black swan without necessarily having the adequate toolkit for it,” he said, referencing the LDI funds of pension plans that triggered...
...Regulators are scoping out ways to enhance stress testing so they can better prepare for “Black Swan” events such as the UK’s recent fiscal adventures....
...Artists featured include Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight....
...Swans puff and hiss on land, causing cyclists to swerve....
...“You had almost four consecutive ‘black swan’ days in terms of market movements.”...
...Their leaders are Amalia (Laura Donnelly), who can glimpse the future, though she can’t predict just when her dress will fall off, and Penance (Ann Skelly), who’s not just a “great inventress” (of the motor...
...In Francis Bacon (William Collins, January), Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan claim the first “fully comprehensive” — it’s certainly a hefty tome — biography of the celebrated artist....
...Photography by Laura Hodgson Do you have a favourite place to stay on the Thames?...
...So I am suggesting you diversify your income sources which is easily done as geese and swans are plentiful elsewhere in the world....
...Her love of contrast, whiplash-inducing in a company setting (think Swan Lake one night and Jérôme Bel the next), is just right for a three-week showcase of French and international dance....
...“The story is that my mother took me to see a very long film that was a cross between The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, with both cartoon elements and real people,” she says....
...Similarly, when the other dancers cover Marlo Benjamin in Post-it notes that she proceeds to shake off, like Dying Swan feathers, the image is utterly striking — yet remains an isolated vignette....
...Rambert’s new artistic director Benoit Swan Pouffer has spent most of his career away from his native France. He has a simple ritual to stay connected to his home country: he listens to French pop....
...The Whip (Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, from February 1) by Juliet Gilkes Romero considers the price of freedom: is the cause worth a multi-billion-pound pay-off to the slave owners?...
...At 41, he has already made it to Hollywood (with Black Swan), founded a company and briefly directed the Paris Opera Ballet....
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