Hints and tips:
...“I’m so tired,” they’ll say, rummaging for their phone. “Just give me the biggest coffee you have.” Requests like this are frequent....
...“The thing I’m most suspicious of is the sexual passion, because the weakest writing is in those poems. Perhaps he just wished there had been.”...
...I always think I’m a little off time. Some people say sometimes I’m too early, but I’m not sure it is. Because I have this retro thing too. The time clash, for me, is super-important.”...
...The M-Pesa mobile phone money system in Kenya has had more impact than any CBDC pilot. The history of money suggests creating a Goldilocks scheme is going to be difficult....
...It’s with a note of wryness that, on seeing writers doing better than him, he says: “I feel like I’m disappearing from the face of the Earth.”...
...They took home champions’ mugs, as well as a fetching set of Acid Capitalist caps kindly supplied by guest host Hugh Hendry....
...“I’m convinced it will bring the type of structural changes we saw around the issues of equality and sexual harassment in the UK and US.”...
...Dave Fishwick, the manager of a macro hedge fund at UK asset manager M&G, agreed....
...“Because you’re a woman, I’m not that interested because by the time you’re 30 you will be having babies and making jam,” sculptor Reg Butler informed Barlow in 1963....
...On the flip side, “When I want to be, I’m a total social animal,” he says. We unpick his business strategies over the years....
...“I’m very lucky to have such an opportunity at such a time,” Hoffman says and — music to the art market’s ears — she adds that she is in hiring mode....
...“I’m a believer in using data to inform decisions....
...Nonetheless the data paint a remarkable picture of macroeconomic “secular stability”, as M&G Investments’ Eric Lonergan has dubbed it....
...Mr Hendry turned positive on China in 2016, but had to shut his hedge fund last year; Corriente Advisors’ Mark Hart gave up on his own Chinese short in September....
...Aberdeen Standard Investments has hired Andrew Hendry as head of distribution of Asia-Pacific. He joins from Westoun Advisors. Prior to that, he was at M&G Investments Asia....
...Even so, the project is opposed by a group of local Tory MPs including Sir Nicholas Soames, Sir John Stanley, Charles Hendry and Crispin Blunt....
...“My duty on the board of MegaFon is to serve the interests of the company and all its owners, but I’m an independent director,” he said....
...I’m all right, I’m all right, I’m all right. It gets you. You’ve got kids, you know what it’s like. You’d die for them” – he says it emphatically....
...‘The Seeing’, by Diana Hendry, is published by The Bodley Head...
...MSW: Even people who aren’t bullish are bullish these days; look at Hugh [Hendry] with his “negative bullishness” . . . JM: That’s the worrying thing....
...I’m not. I‘m avoiding Chinese stocks. I’m avoiding industrial commodities and commodity stocks. And I’m avoiding luxury goods companies....
...“When I’m introduced as an academic, I say: ‘No, I’m a scientist, I work for a living.’ That always winds them up,” he grins. He has always been iconoclastic....
...The War Loan has been a valuable long-duration asset for canny investors (including Hugh Hendry in 2008!). If yields keep going down it will gain more value even than long-dated gilts....
...I’m the other side of that.”...
...Some select quotes: “I know what I’m talking about” [This week's positive UK GDP figure] “says nothing.” “This is the first recovery that has not been met by us — by the private sector.”...
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