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...Here are the three authors shortlisted for the FT and McKinsey’s Bracken Bower Prize 2020 for the best business book proposal; read excerpts of their proposals here....
...The shortlisted authors for the 2018 Bracken Bower Prize are: Maneet Ahuja David Buckmaster Christian Busch Neil Doig Muris Hadzic Andrew Leon Hanna Piyumi Kapugeekiyana Edoardo Maggini Michelle...
...(Atlantic) The best business books to recommend As the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award opens for entries, we asked judges and winners of the award and its sister Bracken Bower Prize to...
...“Retail is tough and it’s hard to make money,” Mary Bowers, portfolio manager with HSBC Global Asset Management, says. “In some of the more recent LBOs, the leverage was too high.”...
...covenants from the bank facilities, while undoubtedly coming at a cost, provides an aggressively geared Fortescue with significantly more flexibility through periods of elevated price volatility,” said Lee Bowers...
...Solomon power station, effectively plugs the US$1.5bn-US$2bn funding gap that we have previously flagged could have existed over the next 12-18 months if spot iron ore prices had stayed at US$90,” said Lee Bowers...
...Lee Bowers, mining analyst at Macquaries Securities, said: “What is increasingly clear is that even upon eventual resolution of the existing industrial dispute, there will be a very extended [recovery] period...
...“Equity income is the only mutual fund asset class left standing in the UK,” says Neil Dwane at Allianz Global Investors, which launched a new dividend fund in 2009....
...“Inpex is seen as ‘deep value,’” says Neil Beveridge, senior analyst at Bernstein Research in Hong Kong, referring to low-priced stocks with high potential....
...“In the three key businesses [iron ore, petroleum and base metals (Copper)], all quarterly output results were up quarter on quarter and ahead of our estimates,” said Lee Bowers, mining analyst at Macquarie...
...Neil Johnson, chairman, said the sale left the remaining Umeco composites business better able to concentrate on a broader customer base in an area that had better long-term growth prospects than the supply...
...The outsized “Golden Spoon” placed in a bower invites you to sit in it, while the crescent “Moon Mask”, flat as paper, with an encrusted white patina suggesting chewing gum, glimmers at dusk....
...“This isn’t the time to pull the plug on equity investment,” said Mr Bowers....
...David Bowers, independent consultant to Merrill Lynch, said: “Institutional investors expect the global economy to slow, but with little risk of a recession....
...Neil Ellett had a 12-year career in the UK’s Royal Air Force, piloting Chinook helicopters, before joining PA Consulting, where he is now a partner for defence sector clients....
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