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...Job moves Calpers, the biggest pension fund in the US, has named Stephen Gilmore as its investment chief. He was previously the top executive at sovereign wealth fund New Zealand Superannuation Fund....
...The move positions Nathaniel Simons — who runs hedge fund Meritage Group and has been vice-chair of Renaissance since 2006 — to take over from his father as chairman....
...In an earnings call, AMG chief executive Nathaniel Dalton said the group had moved away from its core strengths in credit and volatility trading....
...Nathaniel Dalton, the chief executive of asset manager Affiliated Managers Group, which bought a stake in BlueMountain in 2007, lamented in May that the firm had moved from its core strengths in credit and...
...Stephen Caprio, a strategist with UBS, adds that there are already early signs that Asian investors are focusing on emerging market credit as they look for a higher yielding option....
...“You can feel this wall of money coming in,” says Stephen Kotsen, a portfolio manager with Nomura Corporate Research and Asset Management....
...Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin, by Nathaniel Popper, Allen Lane, RRP£20/Harper, RRP$27.99 This timely first draft of the history of a new crypto-currency provides as reliable a guide to the rise...
...“Kentish Town doesn’t give much away to first-time visitors,” says Stephen Emms, founder of the Kentishtowner, the area’s enthusiastic local magazine....
...of the rise of bitcoin, the virtual currency; How Music Got Free, Stephen Witt’s history of the way piracy and peer-to-peer sharing have disrupted the recorded music industry; Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new...
...Popper’s examination of the rise of bitcoin, the virtual currency; and How Music Got Free, Stephen Witt’s history of the way piracy and peer-to-peer sharing have disrupted the recorded music industry....
...Popper’s examination of the rise of bitcoin, the virtual currency; How Music Got Free, Stephen Witt’s history of the way piracy and peer-to-peer sharing have disrupted the recorded music industry....
...The 15 titles include Ashlee Vance’s Elon Musk, a biography of the charismatic entrepreneur behind the Tesla electric car, Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper, on the development of the virtual currency bitcoin...
...Named after Nathaniel Ward, a 19th-century doctor and amateur botanist, these were vitrines or mini-greenhouses to protect delicate exotic species on long journeys....
...Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin, by Nathaniel Popper, Allen Lane, RRP£20/Harper, RRP$27.99 This timely first draft of the history of a new cryptocurrency provides as reliable a guide to the rise...
...Stephen Cox, the editor of Liberty, a libertarian journal, wrote that Branden’s biography “demonstrated she could not only admire [her former friend] but also distinguish what was worthy of admiration”....
...George Nathaniel Curzon, the grandest of India’s viceroys, returned from the subcontinent to become the terrace’s most superior resident, although he never accomplished his real property ambition – a move...
...Jonathan Ford: Lessons from the flawed ‘Rothschild model’ When Nathaniel Rothschild signed the deal that created Bumi at the end of 2010, he vowed not to rest until he had made a financial success of the...
...Featuring ultra-sharp saxophonist Nathaniel Facey, it was called I Am the Man from Lewisham, and it is at his home in that south London borough that I meet Jenkins....
...During the 1800s, spooky tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville would feature in esteemed literary periodicals such as Harper’s Monthly and New England Magazine....
...At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien; Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo; It by Stephen King....
...Stephen Girsky. These are the new breed of M&A advisers who are winning some of the biggest mandates in an otherwise quiet market....
...PEOPLE AND POLITICS Reversal of fortune A portrait of the resurgent Tory party’s George Osborne – before he fell foul of Nathaniel Rothschild All at sea, out of his depth, a career sinking rapidly....
...stephen.pincock@journalist.co.uk...
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