Hints and tips:
...“I’m very conscious of rhythm. That’s an absolutely fundamental part of the editing. Tapping my foot, so to speak, and finding the rhythm,” he says....
...“I’m an Anglophile,” he says, “and not only the architecture.” For 1 Mayfair, he has clearly been studying the neighbourhood....
...“If I’m [private equity investors] Steve Schwarzman or Henry Kravis, I’m not all that worried about these funds competing with me. They’re clients, not competitors,” he said....
...Wiseman is fascinated by “change blindness”, which includes our tendency to overlook the disappearance of Robbins’s waistcoat and tie. (Wiseman pioneered his own version of the stunt.)...
...Amanda Haimona, of local agent Bonaccorde, says that plots here are typically 1,000 sq m, compared with around 400 sq m in Melbourne’s more central coastal neighbourhoods, such as Brighton or Sandringham...
...I’m sure that, when she does, we will know about it....
...Mr Fink told the FT last week that Mr Wiseman’s departure “has nothing to do with succession planning and I’m not going anywhere”....
...For Mark Wiseman, it has ended rather badly....
...You don’t want socks or a crackly M&S jumper. You want interesting contrarian opinions — the kind that will make you look like the cleverest person at the lunch table....
...Victoria Rosamond has rejoined White & Case’s New York office as a partner in its M&A practice. She was previously at Katten Muchin Rosenman....
...“My Audi never breaks down, but when it does, I’m calling roadside assistance. There’s no way I’m going to figure out how to fix that thing,” he admits....
...In fact I’m not sure how [KPMG South Africa] will be able to remain in business.”...
...A fake arm that moves and shakes just [as] if I’m doing my third 10-mile run of the week. Julian DA Wiseman...
...Mark Wiseman, chief executive of CPPIB, says: “Our quarter is 25 years, not 100 days.” Private credit is an attractive business, where good risk adjusted returns can be made, he adds....
...as a truly serious player by setting up in a prime spot on the ground floor of the show’s prestigious hall one, with what some visitors are hailing as the most impressive stand of the event – a 500 sq m...
...For example, Jim Leaviss of M&G’s Bond Vigilantes first noted the case for calling the War Loan back in November, based on the falling costs at the time of issuing ultra-long dated gilts in its place....
...I’m certain that the desired effect was not to emerge depressed, but this had that effect....
...As Julian Wiseman also pointed out in advocating a century bond, a 100-year gilt might also help liquidity in the current long end....
...Last month the group paid £13m for M H Foods, the manufacturer of “one calorie” spray cooking oils and salad dressings....
...Julian Wiseman, head of UK rates strategy at Société Générale, says: “Investors will buy these bonds....
...Japanese deal - The Chairman of G4S fell on his sword as he paid the price for the global security firm’s abandoned £5.3bn takeover of Danish cleaning firm ISS From The Guardian, - Robert Wiseman...
...I’m going to watch this space. How about you?...
...Mr Clarke thought about packing in but couldn’t face it: “I enjoy doing politics, I’m vain enough to believe I’m good at it, and I want to go on doing it.”...
...“We are very focused on specific initiatives within our most important and most profitable businesses,” Mr Wiseman said....
...I’m reminded of a book from a fellow-student of my father’s at Strawberry Hill called AN Wilson.” The personal question he wants to ask me, it seems, is whether I am the author of that book....
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