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...“There’s a fairly broad church of people who think that such high growth will be difficult for Hargreaves Lansdown to sustain in future,” said Julian Roberts, analyst at Jefferies....
...In a June research note, investment bank Jefferies said institutions accounted for only about 5 per cent of the ownership of cannabis companies, compared with about 50 per cent for the technology sector....
...Laurence Fink, a talented First Boston mortgage bond trader, would also leave to start a little money manager called BlackRock....
...This has put them in “an impossible position”, according to sustainable investment analysts at investment bank Jefferies....
...We looked at getting a listing on the LSE but we were told ‘no’,” said Bradley Duke, chief executive of ETC Group and a former trading executive at Jefferies and BCS Group. The LSE declined to comment....
...Chief administrative officer Laurence Stein has been promoted to executive vice-president and chief operating officer....
...Laurence Fletcher and Kate Duguid report on how some big name hedge fund managers, including Chris Rokos and Crispin Odey are among those nursing big losses....
...Julian Roberts, an analyst at Jefferies, said Schroders’ “good cost control and positive AUM movement have not been able to make up for margin compression”....
...“With Greece, it doesn’t make sense to look at the overall debt to GDP — it’s not clear it really means much,” said Chris Jeffery of Legal & General Investment Management, which holds some Greek debt....
...Analysts at UBS and Jefferies have identified that the cost of acquiring and retaining customers is rising, and that margin-eroding promotions may be needed to restore growth....
...“They are trying to revamp the US division but it has so far proven difficult,” said Barclays analyst Laurence Whyatt....
...Although JPMorgan, one of the lead banks on the IPO, has valued the Asia unit at $63bn to $77bn, Jefferies and Bernstein Research, which are not involved in the process, reckon it is worth $45bn to $55bn...
...For Edward Mundy, an analyst at Jefferies, Elliott’s move was surprising....
...Brad Bechtel at Jefferies notes: “Central banks have fired a lot of bullets and ISMs around the world have taken a lot of pain, but it feels like the worst could be over....
...Read the full story from DD’s Lindsay Fortado and Laurence Fletcher here....
...Laurence Alexander, an analyst at Jefferies who has a “buy” rating on the company’s shares, described the writedown in a note as “mostly if not entirely a mark-to-market of known conditions in the seed and...
...Laurence Alexander, analyst at Jefferies, assigned the chance of a merger happening at just 20 per cent. The market was considerably more optimistic....
...Indeed, Jefferies has calculated the likely bond issuance from eurozone governments to come this year, and subtracted bonds which would be ineligible for purchase....
...TT Electronics was a gainer this week, climbing 12.9 per cent after Jefferies analysts backed new management to turn the sensor maker round....
...A merger of Dow and DuPont makes sense from several perspectives, according to Laurence Alexander, analyst at Jefferies....
...“Although March euro area inflation was on the low side of forecasts, we do not believe this will be enough to trigger ECB action yet,” said Laurence Boone, economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch....
...and Guy Laurence, Vodafone’s UK chief executive....
...Laurence Alexander, an analyst at Jefferies, said the inferior earnings outlook for the company was due to weak western European demand with global growth moving towards the lower end of the 2 per cent to...
...As Laurence Alexander, analyst at Jefferies, pointed out, consolidation is the name of the game in the chemicals sector at the moment, with US companies looking to cut deals to add hard-to-get EM growth...
...Meanwhile, Laurence Alexander, an analyst with Jefferies & Company, said the share price fall was probably in part because that some investors would prefer to see part of 3M’s cash pile “hoarded or returned...
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