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...The West Virginia legislation drew opposition from Republican state senator Eric Nelson. In an interview with Moral Money, Nelson warned of the legislation’s “unintended consequences”....
...Seed Beauty, coincidentally founded by another sibling duo, Laura and John Nelson, is calling those deals into question....
...It is a member of the influential investment consulting industry whose other members include Willis Towers Watson, Aon Hewitt and Mercer. Mr Druley’s route to Cambridge Associates was idiosyncratic....
...“Superdrug has been a really interesting turnround and a key reason why [Boots] lost share in beauty,” said Nelson Blackley, a senior research associate at Nottingham Trent University....
...Gandhi [and] Nelson Mandela”....
...(“While discussions could get spirited, we viewed that as a good thing and all directors including Nelson were always open-minded to others’ perspectives,” they wrote.)...
...Thomas Toth, a managing director at Wilshire Associates, the consultancy, says the amount of excess capital is “very substantial” and has helped push up prices paid for deals....
...Bridgewater, the world’s biggest hedge fund group, poached the head of IBM’s artificial intelligence unit Watson in 2012, and last year BlackRock and Two Sigma, another rapidly growing hedge fund that uses...
...In late 2012, David Ferrucci, head of IBM’s Watson supercomputer, joined Bridgewater Associates to build the $168bn hedge fund’s artificial intelligence arm....
...Away from the fears about correlation, the Towers Watson/Financial Times survey shows that the big hedge fund managers continue to get bigger, with Bridgewater Associates, Brevan Howard, BlackRock, Och-Ziff...
...Nelson Peltz, the billionaire co-founder of Trian Fund Management, is agitating for improvement at State Street and the investment bank Lazard, in which he took a stake last year....
...Nelson figured that men have different shirt and shoe sizes, so why not condom sizes? After one week, Nelson reported on his website that every one of Theyfit’s styles had been ordered online....
...Towers Watson, through predecessor Watson Wyatt, has been in the country since 1995 and currently has a presence in Shanghai and Beijing....
...Data from Birinyi Associates, the stock market research firm, indicate US companies announced share buy-back authorisations totalling $373.4bn in 2010....
...● Neville McKay has moved from Towers Watson, where he advised defined benefit schemes on de-risking, to Hewitt Associates, where he joins the retirement consulting team....
...● Neville McKay has moved from Towers Watson to Aon Hewitt Associates to join the retirement consulting team....
...Towers Watson, the consultant, says ETFs have higher fees than traditional passive mandates, carry excessive counterparty risk and flood the market with a plethora of products....
...higher in Asia, and that relates to the fact that there is less of an alignment of interests between the managers and the firm they work for,” says Mark Brugner, head of manager research in Asia for Towers Watson...
...of the late President Ronald Reagan James Harmon, Chairman, Harmon & Co., LLC, former President of the Export-Import Bank, United States Katrina Lantos Swett, Tom Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and...
...He cited by way of example the deal between Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, a WPP agency, and Scangroup, a Kenyan associate of WPP, to create a joint venture, Ogilvy Africa....
...● Paul Herbert has joined Watson Wyatt as a senior investment consultant. Mr Herbert used to fill a similar role at Hewitt Associates....
...● Hermes Investment Managers has hired Eric Lareau as head of north American sales and Jamison Gagnier as associate director....
...“But currency also has been esoteric,” adds Mr Hersey of Watson Wyatt, “described by terms such as ‘black box,’ ‘technical,’ ‘leveraged’ and ‘momentum’....
...Mr Pitt-Watson points out bull markets can help to cover up poor management....
...Cadbury-Schweppes investors have backed Nelson Peltz’s aggressive demands for more changes at the confectionery company, including fresh faces on the group’s board....
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