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...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...“All but sold out” was how chief executive Jeff Miller described the market....
...The brands include Staropramen, Estrella Damm, Tiger beer, Aspall Suffolk Cidre, Edinburgh Gin, Martin Miller’s gin, Beluga vodka....
...Large pools of money have been dedicated to this kind of lending, such as Blackstone’s GSO Capital Partners. As one banker put it, “people are falling over themselves to get into the PIK”....
...“Banks like to have deposit stickiness that can be used to underpin lending,” he says....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...To Enrich’s credit, his review of decades of complicated Deutsche debacles is easy to read — suitable for a spot under the tree next Christmas....
...Through 36 well-known works of art that stretch from the Egyptian Book of the Dead (c.1285 BC) to Keith Haring’s “Tree of Life” (1985) come questions based on the works and beyond....
...SocGen’s Brian Hilliard has gone 2016-2019 revivalist and made a decision tree....
...The magic money tree has set down deep roots....
...“We’re in the middle of a US housing slowdown, with Manhattan’s prime market the first and most sensitive to react,” says Jonathan Miller of Miller Samuel, a local property appraiser....
...Keeping it in the family In Ambridge, money lending among families is rife....
...“Lenders are making these loans oftentimes as a loss leader to get other business from the companies, whether it’s M&A business, bond business or some kind of advisory business,” says Stuart Miller, a former...
...SH hampsteadtheatre.com, 020 7722 9301, to January 17 … Widowers’ Houses, Orange Tree, Richmond After two new plays, the Orange Tree stages a period piece for Christmas — but one that will still resonate...
...In addition to auto lending, Ally operates a bank and wants to grow deposits which would help it cut funding costs....
...These are not scenarios unfamiliar to Mr Miller....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Those constraints, especially high capital requirements associated with Basel III, have discouraged bank lending particularly to smaller and more risky companies....
...Eitz chayim hee la’machazikim ba, my remembrance sings, “A tree of life for those who hold on to it …” Somehow I still do....
...The patterned knit is also something that works well on the eco front (see People Tree’s hand-knitted Fair Isle cardigan, £95, www.asos.com – 100 per cent wool, 100 per cent worth it)....
...Commandment V: You shall pass early pension and health care reforms as current trends are unsustainable. Commandment VI: You shall be fair....
...And here’s the I-don’t-care-about-watching-Ghana v Uruguay version (emphasis FT Alphaville’s): The Miller-Moore provision, which was included in the House bill last year, never made it into the Senate version...
...Emirates National Bank of Dubai is the biggest single creditor with outstanding lending of about $3bn....
...Galleries next week, appoints six pairs of “eyes” – two collectors, two critics, two artists, ranging in the past from Prince Charles and Anne Robinson to AS Byatt and Charles Saumarez Smith to Jonathan Miller...
...PART 1: On bad mortgage lending FT: Tom, thank you so much for joining us today. TB: It’s a great pleasure - thanks for having me....
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