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...Marcus Björkstén, a portfolio manager at Fondita Fund Management, said some climate-focused funds had struggled to maintain returns because of fallout from inflation and high interest rates since the coronavirus...
...Marcus and Moriarity both like “necessity retail”, meaning high-traffic supermarkets in well-off suburbs. These have the appeal of acyclicality; people keep going to the grocery store in a recession....
...European equities opened lower on Tuesday, deepening a drop on Monday that Marcus Widén, an economist at SEB, said should “primarily be seen as a necessary breather after a very strong month”....
...S&P this month downgraded Thames Water’s top-ranked class A debt to BBB-, the bottom rung of investment-grade, just one notch above junk....
...Marcus Moore, a portfolio manager for Osterweis in San Francisco, said he does not pay much attention to specific ESG credit scores from rating agencies and that the numbers should not be a deciding factor...
...Since then the retailer has been grappling with a high debt burden, freight-cost inflation and sliding revenue, according to S&P Ratings....
...An elite background might help you get a job at a multi-manager. You would not stay there very long unless you boosted the P&L....
...The Wall Street benchmark S&P 500 rose 1.5 per cent to its highest level since August, marking its third straight week of gains with a 1.8 per cent increase....
...“There’s definitely an investment renaissance in the US right now,” said Paul Gruenwald, chief economist at S&P Global Ratings....
...At Barclays, Marcus Agius, an old-school relationship banker who struggled to rein in the hard-charging Diamond, backed the CEO over his remco chief....
...I am somewhat surprised by this and ask Doctor P if he witnessed this himself. “The man just has a heart of gold, helping people.”...
...Its high-yield Marcus saving account is offering an interest rate of 3.3 per cent. Financial conditions have eased. Inflation metrics are beginning to look favourable....
...By 2021, wealth management alone accounted for nearly a third of after-tax profits for Morgan Stanley, triple the proportion of 2010, according to S&P Capital IQ....
...Now the waterfront — which forms part of Liverpool Waters, Peel L&P’s £5bn, 30-year project to transform the city’s northern docks — is taking on a new life itself....
...With inflation falling, but at a much more gradual pace than on the way up, the opportunity for [a] policy mis-step is greater,” said Marcus Brookes, chief investment officer at Quilter Investors....
...But he might have said “We’re looking for a buyer for GreenSky, we’re getting out of the Apple card partnership, and while Marcus is a nice deposit-gathering platform, we’re just not a consumer lender so...
...The biggest black mark on Solomon’s efforts to transform Goldman was his expansion of the consumer banking business, a project that started under predecessor Lloyd Blankfein with the Marcus savings account...
...In May, a Chinese J-16 fighter intercepted an Australian P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft over international waters and released “chaff” including aluminium that was ingested by the engine of the plane...
...Take a break from the news FT Globetrotter got a first look at the new seafood restaurant Hav & Mar from Marcus Samuelsson....
...The S&P Global Luxury index is down by about 30 per cent this year....
...A total of 51 large retailers filed for bankruptcy in the US in 2020 — a decade high, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...The fund gained 19.6 per cent in November alone, according to the investor letter, a month when the S&P index was up 10.8 per cent....
...The news might plausibly have just helped push the S&P 500 into a bear market and will strengthen the usual calls for regulation....
...Marcus Buckingham, head of people and performance research at the ADP Research Institute in the US believes that they are and has come up with a guide to encourage people to find a job in which they can...
...Peltz’s stint at Unilever will probably be a smoother one than at P&G, where he waged a bitter proxy battle, Lex notes....
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