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...“In some ways, dry powder is a mirage. It’s a theoretical number,” said Nigel Dawn, global head of private capital advisory at investment bank Evercore....
...journey from being a Manchester United superfan to becoming a massive conspiracy theorist who believes Davos actually matters (The Economist) — The supposed performance of active managers in 2022 is a mirage...
...That fleeting $40bn mirage was fun while it lasted....
...Yet the 2017 valuation was something of a mirage....
...For example: if Generic Greek God Capital is buying Widgetmaker Inc, 70 per cent of the equity it ponies up might come from one of its LBO funds....
...“Don’t keep giving them a useless treatment, don’t give them the mirage, the illusion that there may be getting protection, actually give them something that will protect them,” Yancopoulos said....
...Yaseen Aslam, one of the drivers who brought the case, says even the freedom to choose when to work is a mirage: drivers who don’t log in at busy times and drive long hours won’t cover the cost of car payments...
...The aim is to avoid the mirage of co-operation that existed under Mr Ghosn....
...He has, at various points, said it "attracts charlatans", is a "delusion", is a “mirage”, is a "gambling device", is "like a seashell or something", is "not an investment", constitutes “tulips” and is "probably...
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...Lenovo’s Mirage Solo includes Google’s “WorldSense” tracking technology, allowing users to move their head and take a few steps inside the virtual world they see....
...I tried Lenovo’s all-in-one Mirage Solo headset, based on Google’s Daydream platform, and while the graphics are unlikely to blow anyone away, going wireless while retaining head-tracking is a good combination...
...Some also complain that algorithms withdraw standing offers to buy or sell when another trader tries to transact with them, creating a mirage of market depth....
...If such “old economy” stocks, which are typically not included in ESG strategies, come roaring back into fashion then ESG will be exposed for the mirage it is, they say....
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...After a long innovation drought in the previous decade, investors in big pharma would be forgiven for wondering whether signs of revival in drug development are a mirage....
...Five years ago, Viacom paid $60m to two little-known media companies, the Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment, for the rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the comic book series that had already been...
...However, the office-less revolution where employees do all their work from home is, like the paperless office, remains a mirage....
...Achieving a paperless home office is like a mirage: it always recedes into the distance. That does not stop me resolving every new year to try harder, and this time I have some electronic help....
...As Simon Lack documented in great detail in his book, the Hedge Fund Mirage, the private fund model is tailor-made for fraud and shenanigans (none of which have happened at Common Sense)....
...That looks set to widen further in 2013: Through November, a weighted index maintained by Hedge Fund Research Inc. was up by just 8.31% compared with nearly 29% for the S&P 500....
...But its Mirage fighter jets were getting so old and expensive to maintain that they needed to be grounded, prompting the decision....
...Their instincts were solid: the musical, which has been running for eight years at the Mirage hotel, is a clever and well-conceived homage to some of the greatest pop songs ever written....
...But any hope of returning to the bubble-era deal making of 2006 and 2007 remains a distant mirage that is unlikely to be reached in the near future....
...“We consider the end-user exemption to be a mirage,” says Will Rhode, analyst at Tabb Group....
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