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...Capital Group has tapped Mike Gitlin, its head of fixed income, to become its next chief executive, as the world’s largest active asset manager continues expanding beyond its roots in US equity funds....
...But, of course, there’s a reason why it’s widely called Shitibank; the sprawling, gormless Citi has for a v v v very long time proven adept at blithely ambling onto various rakes around the world....
...In the memorable phrase of the former vice-president, Mike Pence, TikTok is “digital fentanyl”....
...MIKE MAYO: The merger between Citi and Travellers is one of the worst big bank mergers in history....
...Our US financial editor Brooke Masters asks whether a US pensions revolution might be on the cards....
...merger of BB&T and SunTrust, also cut its revenue growth target for 2023 “driven almost entirely by a lower net interest income outlook given higher deposit and funding costs”, chief financial officer Mike...
...Commodity trader Trafigura has restructured its leadership team as it prepares for the retirement of its longtime chief operating officer Mike Wainwright in March....
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...Chevron’s board is considering waiving its mandatory retirement age for CEO Mike Wirth, the Wall Street Journal reports....
...Brooke Masters and Harriet Agnew report on asset managers pouring money into tech platforms, in a bid to emulate the success of BlackRock’s software as a service....
...“That ensures we are all rowing in the same direction,” says Mike Gitlin (MKCG), head of fixed income....
...Syson has toggled between the US and UK over the years, popping up at the British Museum, the V&A, the National Gallery and the Met in New York....
...The generally beleaguered Old Masters market yet managed to produce the third-highest auction price of the year in January when a c1480 portrait by Sandro Botticelli sold at Sotheby’s for $92.2m....
...Payments group Marqeta has hired Mike Milotich as its chief financial officer. He was previously head of finance and investor relations at Visa....
...Brooke Masters says Apple remains dug in for a long war. 2....
...“When the tide went out during the initial Covid shock, many managers weren’t fully dressed,” says Mike Gitlin, head of fixed income at Capital Group....
...“My deep bow to this wonderful master,” wrote Mstislav Rostropovitch on Ray’s 70th birthday in 1991....
...The artist, whose given name is Mike Winkelmann, summarised his reaction to the sale with a tweet: “holy fuck.”...
...Some former executives compare him to Mike “Wags” Wagner, the aggressive but loyal hatchet man of fictional hedge fund manager Bobby Axelrod in the TV series Billions....
...After such strong reads from the first two releases (three if we count Russia’s Sputnik V), the disappointing AZN figures were perhaps bound to prompt downward pressure on the company’s shares....
...Richard Masters, chief executive of the Premier League, has said the decision was made “voluntarily”....
...And now a fifth expect a “V-shaped” economic recovery, up from a 10th in the previous month....
...said Mike Corbat, Citigroup’s chief executive. “I would say that, as a team, we've pretty well discounted a uniform V-shaped recovery....
...The leafy suburbs of north Oxford may be a far cry from the revolutionary fervour of Fidel Castro’s communist Cuba, but this is where former children’s games manufacturer Mike Stanfield has built one of...
...brooke.masters@ft.com...
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