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...The guys who are doing the actual grinding down and doing the refining of the component parts aren’t in the business of running 17,000 acres of auction yard like Copart is.”...
...As we’ve written before, in the past decade private credit, including BDCs, has edged out banks to nab business from the high-yield bond and leveraged loan markets....
...He secured about £1mn from IP Group, a UK intellectual property business that invests in technology start-ups, to set up the company....
...Sarah Limones, a compliance officer at Dime, says the business requires more frequent compliance checks, with regular reviews as often as once a month compared with annually for businesses operating in industries...
...But Mr Gardhouse was buying Woodford Equity Income heavily in the multi-manager funds at the same time as voting on its inclusion in the company’s best-buy list....
...Martin Wolf Business Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built, by Duncan Clark, Ecco, RRP£18.99/$27.99 If Alibaba, the sprawling online retailer, is one of China’s most interesting companies, then Jack Ma...
...World Gone By, by Dennis Lehane, Little, Brown, RRP£16.99/William Morrow, RRP$27.99 Mystic River confirmed Lehane as one of the most skilful of American writers, but it proved a tough act to follow....
...Much of this crisply observant memoir serves as a blueprint for relations between writer and director. Later, after the two part company, things get spiky....
...The Scotsman rightly praises himself as an observer of people. However, this is not a management book. Ferguson’s style was instinctive and is not easily copied....
...Mr MacDonald bought Oakside, a failed recycling business focused on the motor trade, in 2007, and incorporated it into the shell company, Specialist Waste Recycling, that he had just acquired....
...As to supervision, the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (BHCA) designates the Federal Reserve as the consolidated supervisor of all bank holding companies....
...It essentially involves rating a company, and companies have assets, business models, balance sheets, managements and, most importantly, history....
...The bundle of financial services firms that comprise Citigroup are struggling to perform as Sandy Weill promised. JPMorgan Chase is doing better but the merger of the two institutions left deep scars....
...As recently as last year, the idea that hostile takeovers could ever become accepted practice was widely pooh-poohed by Japan’s business establishment....
...His confidence in leaving the larger company was based on what he saw as the opportunity of a specialist business: “If you are specialist in a niche you can take on even the biggest people,” he argues....
...About the experts: Chris Davis has management responsibility for one of the GfK NOP’s largest business areas....
...Fast Company invented a new genre of business writing that still has many imitators. This book is a treat....
...Arun Sarin, chief executive, said that he would “obviously listen” if the company received an approach, but insisted that he was happy with the team under Bill Morrow, the former head of the UK business...
...Markides is professor of strategic and international management and holds the Robert P. Bauman Chair of Strategic Leadership at the London Business School....
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