Hints and tips:
...José Gerardo González, my Wayúu guide, doesn’t like these barriers. He feels that children — and sometimes their parents — begging beside the road in this way demeans his people....
...Solar panel demand is off the scale — you can’t satisfy the demand. Sadly, it doesn’t drive the price in the short term,” he says....
...“But I’ve got no insight and it’s not something I’m planning for. I’m focused on running the business.” Beesley’s first foray in asset management was at Mercury in 1997....
...Apoorva Shah, a senior banker in BNP Paribas’s UK M&A team, has left the company....
...In terms of where to stay, The Artist’s House at Jupiter Artland is amazing....
...Anders Sandberg Actually, my first academic publication was actually literally looking into the physics of what I call Jupiter brains....
...It didn’t sound as bad when somebody is telling you on the phone. There’s a couple of guys here with machine guns. You know, I’m trying to get my head around it....
...Integration has proved challenging for many asset managers that have undertaken ambitious M&A in recent years....
...“Their idea of the motherland has stalled, it hasn’t evolved, and hasn’t been complicated in the way that it has in motherland, where life keeps going.”...
...If your fund has chronically underperformed, I wouldn’t bother waiting for one. Finally, in the search for red flags, I’m sure you don’t want to be a full-time analyst....
...Mendick is opening Sh*t Faced this summer at Jupiter Artland in Scotland. The exhibition looks at “my intense shame about how messy I am as a human”....
...Matthew Beesley, chief executive of Jupiter Asset Management, agreed with the direction of travel but sounded a note of caution....
...Activision chief executive Bobby Kotick didn’t take the decision well....
...Call it end-of-year angst or a resistance to New Year’s resolutions but I’m mainlining pointless spiritual one-liners....
...“There is a bifurcation between those companies that raised capital and those that didn’t,” said Stephan Feldgoise, co-head of M&A at Goldman Sachs....
...Meanwhile UK equity fund managers, including Jupiter’s Richard Buxton and Newton Investment Management’s David Cumming are calling for an overhaul of pension accounting rules....
...Amid all the arguments for high executive rewards, what happens if you pay people so much that they can’t be bothered?...
...“Whether other approaches appear is open to speculation, but what isn’t is that the Middle East is using its firepower to do more M&A away from oil revenues.”...
...Davis Polk has hired James Dougherty, previously Jones Day’s global chair of M&A, as an M&A partner in New York....
...“If it isn’t FAB, it will be someone else.”...
...Jupiter is axing around a quarter of its product range....
..., and Bond Vigilantes t-shirts from our generous sponsors....
...A recent acquisition is the Jupiter chair by Mac Collins, a British designer from Nottingham who is of Jamaican descent....
...“There are inflationary pressures that aren’t going to abate quickly and a war in Ukraine which isn’t going to end for a considerable while.”...
...In some ways, I feel as if I’m living in parallel times: confusing, violent, nationalistic....
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