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...BlackRock has no Midas touch, either....
...With the possible exception of King Midas, whose mere touch could turn objects into gold, it is hard to think of anyone who seems as temperamentally unsuited to selling any financial asset short....
...A version of this article was first published on May 22 by the Nikkei Asian Review. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Warren Buffett has for the first time said that Berkshire Hathaway overpaid for Kraft’s merger with Heinz, in a rare admission of failure by the investor with the midas touch....
...Yet sceptics question his supposed Midas touch whenever one of his listing stumbles, as Facebook did back in 2012 or in the case of Uber just last week....
...The series formed part of the auction house’s Midas Touch sale, billed as the first dedicated entirely to gold and which also included Napoleon’s coronation throne and a gold Ferrari....
...“2018 may well be a defining moment in aviation as airlines begin to report more revenue from their retailing than the cost of the initial air ticket,” said John Grant, partner at consultancy Midas Aviation...
...Even renowned UK stockpicker Anthony Bolton, who arrived in Hong Kong in 2010 to exalted expectations that he would successfully transfer his Midas touch to China, fell foul of accounting scandals and fraud...
...Google billionaire Larry Page has a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc working on how to build a city from scratch. Some billionaires build, others redecorate....
...Thesys is a unit of New Jersey-based Tradeworx, which provided the SEC’s surveillance programme known as “Midas”....
...Transferwise has made a name for itself as an innovative disruptor in the FX space — winning a multitude of industry accolades, including the Midas touch of Andreessen Horowitz funding....
...But unlike another mythical figure, King Midas, not everything he touches turns to gold....
...“They are bound to increase dividends, given their limited investment opportunities and excessive cash reserves that reduce their return on earnings,” says Heo Pil-seok, head of Midas International Asset...
...higher standard of life than the community with the larger stock; though when the poorer community has caught up the rich — as, presumably, it eventually will — then both alike will suffer the fate of Midas...
...Another Fosun executive, Liang Xinjun, who is CEO, also made it into the Top 10 of the Hurun Midas Rich List, a ranking announced on Monday by the Hurun Report, a Shanghai-based magazine run by Rupert Hoogewerf...
...“We see some meaningful changes in terms of shareholder return,” says Heo Pil-seok, president of Midas International Asset Management....
...As usual, Ralph Lauren selected an exotic foreign clime – in this case India – and applied his distinctive Midas touch to a series of feminine, well-executed designs....
...A lower share price reflected concerns that Steve Jobs’ midas touch had been lost. The subsequent rebound was associated with increasing conviction that it had not....
...Some people close to Pimco are noting that in the past 12 months – when Mr Gross’s Midas touch deserted him and his Total Return Fund underperformed industry benchmarks – many other Pimco funds outperformed...
...is Marc Andreessen, joint founder of marquee fund Andreessen Horowitz, co-founder of web browser developer Netscape Communications, board member of social network site Facebook and number two in Forbes’ Midas...
...Perhaps Slim may be no Midas but, with luck, Frisco could yet find treasure in the Sierra Madre....
...As usual, Ralph Lauren selected an exotic foreign clime – in this case Spain with an occasional nod to the colourful exoticism of Mexico – and applied his distinctive Midas touch to a series of feminine,...
...Operating margins tell the same story, helped by Posco’s Midas touch of turning relatively cheap raw materials into high quality steel products....
...But look beyond the feints and tricks, and the Midas touch flickers....
...The company’s biggest shareholders, aside from Guy Meyohas and Ofer Miretzky, its founders, include Midas Capital Partners, Progressive Asset Management and Henderson Global Investors....
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