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...Announcing the debut of Ark’s European funds, Wood asserted that the Innovation fund strategy is “engineered to benefit from an impending economic transformation that we believe will surpass the historical...
...Franklin Templeton has agreed to buy rival Putnam Investments for more than $1bn as the California-based asset manager continues its expansion into alternative products and retirement plans....
...This is all a benefit of something called the “promote” and it helps to explain, at least in part, why Spacs have become the hottest product on Wall Street....
...Commerce on the App Store grew to more than $500bn last year — more than most nations’ gross domestic product....
...giant changed its search engine algorithm to favour products that are more profitable for the company, despite objections from its lawyers and engineers....
...For critics of the initial tracking-stock deal — like Icahn — Dell and Silver Lake have engineered a slick solution....
...Most are engineered to provide protection when volatility erupts. But, in practice, they amount to a bonfire of money....
...“Organic cotton seeds are non-genetically engineered and grown with natural fertilisers.”...
...In 2004 Mr Lampert, who was running Kmart after it emerged from bankruptcy proceedings, engineered a takeover of Sears — keeping its name for the combined company — with the aim of better competing against...
...“Robots make products for human beings. It’s up to human beings to decide whether what the robots made are good or not,” he said....
...After leaving Guggenheim to found G2 in 2009, he engineered a tie-up with the Forbes family to put their name on a placement agent for private equity funds, although G2 is in the final stages of selling...
...The deal, engineered by former iShares boss Lee Kranefuss, now executive in residence at Warburg Pincus, will provide Source with new money to expand its product offering in Europe as well as grow through...
...“Where you have highly engineered niche products, Indian companies can really add value,” said Vishal Mahadevia, a Mumbai-based partner for Warburg Pincus....
...“Marilyn is one, Bob Marley is another, and Elvis is probably the biggest of all.”...
...The investment industry may not have engineered such egregious excesses, yet innovation was a key theme of the past decade, and not always for the better....
...Valeant’s chief executive has engineered several previous deals successfully. “We avoid competing with big pharma, because we’ll probably lose,” says Mr Pearson....
...Pfizer under Mr Kindler engineered a $68bn takeover of rival Wyeth last year to diversify its product range and mitigate the risk of a series of blockbuster drugs, including Lipitor and Viagra, coming off...
...While NYSE engineered a 2007 merger with Euronext, operator of exchanges across Europe, Nasdaq has made several smaller acquisitions in recent years....
...The barriers remain daunting and without further big breakthroughs in battery technology, all-electric cars may remain niche products....
...The writer is professor of economics and finance at Yale University and chief economist at MacroMarkets LLC...
...Rio, which is fighting a hostile $148bn takeover attempt by rival BHP Billiton, is also selling Alcan’s packaging business and weighing up a disposal of its engineered products business....
...Start with the products: motor vehicles are on the whole cleaner, better engineered, safer, and more stylishly packaged than ever before....
...The LSE has also pursued relationships with other exchanges that could lead to joint ventures for the sale of new products....
...We are long things China consumes (food, oil) and short those competing in their product markets (US autos, non-China steel production).’...
...As Ms Hutchinson says: “Programmes could be engineered in certain regions, designed in others and manufactured in still another.”...
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