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...The still potent veteran bass Ferruccio Furlanetto is both authoritative and tender as the family patriarch Arkel, and in a potentially important Met debut, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, in gorgeous voice as Geneviève...
...Mr Rabin joins Jennison, a unit of PGIM, the $1tn investment management businesses owned by Prudential Financial, from Loomis Sayles....
...Andrea DiCenso, a portfolio manager at Loomis Sayles, is not a subscriber to the view that the drop in the oil price is sending a worrying signal....
...Some of the best singing came from velvet-voiced soprano Nicole Cabell, who was especially seductive in Obradors’ “Del cabello más sutil”, and from Lester Lynch, a powerful baritone who proved a revelation...
...“Clearly the well of optimism that led US equities to new highs has run dry, at least temporarily.” says Craig Burelle, an analyst at Loomis Sayles....
...“Optimism over synchronised global growth and supportive macro conditions led to outsized gains in equity markets to start the year,” says Craig Burelle, macro strategies research analyst at Loomis Sayles...
...That widening spread has left Scott Service, a global fixed income portfolio manager at Loomis, Sayles & Company, feeling bullish about markets reopening....
...And the odds are it is going to be a good trader,” says Dan Fuss, vice-chairman of Loomis Sayles. “If you take on a smaller one and things start to change, you are stuck.”...
...The 75-minute opera unfolded tautly under the conductor Nicole Paiement....
...Tony Ursillo, technology analyst and portfolio manager at Loomis Sayles, said the Alipay transfer process had seemed “not totally transparent”, but executives’ answers assuaged concerns at a lunch meeting...
...“I was a little surprised they didn’t go higher given how much demand there seems to be,” said Tony Ursillo, a technology analyst at Loomis Sayles....
...“For the high-yield market, it means, gradually, you want to replace Ford bonds,” said Dan Fuss, vice-chairman of Loomis Sayles. “Now we have a new universe.”...
...“Clearly, trading volume is up,” said Dan Fuss, vice-chairman at Loomis Sayles. But Mr Fuss said that liquidity is concentrated in new issues and existing bonds issues of large size....
...The heavyweight Boston-based investment firms at the meeting included State Street Global Advisors, Columbia Management, Fidelity, Loomis Sayles and Wellington Management....
...As recently as two years ago whenever Dan Fuss, vice-chairman of Loomis Sayles, wanted to sell $50m of bonds of, say, General Electric, the 30-year veteran of the corporate bond market would ring one of...
...“These [structures] are red flags for weakening creditworthiness and they create a vulnerable market,” said Dan Fuss, vice-chairman of Loomis Sayles, a money manager. “Deal structure is very poor.”...
...“The world changed and you had to respond,” said Dan Fuss, vice-chairman of Loomis Sayles....
...“They might have to be reclassified as ‘submerging’,” says Dan Fuss, vice-chairman of Loomis Sayles, which operates with broad investment mandates allowing the managers flexibility....
...“It puts me back on my heels,” said Dan Fuss, vice-chairman at Loomis Sayles. “Dividend deals make me more cautious about the high-yield sector.”...
...“If people take investment-grade corporates as a single universe, they are getting a somewhat misleading view of the yields available,” says Dan Fuss, vice-chairman at Loomis Sayles....
...“I don’t know how this will play out for bondholders, but I doubt if it’s going to be good,” said Dan Fuss, vice-chairman of Loomis Sayles, which has a small holding of Lehman bonds....
...“It’s a fear of credit,” says Dan Fuss, vice-chairman at investment manager Loomis Sayles....
...“There goes Bear, there goes Lehman and, then, Merrill merges,” said Dan Fuss, vice-chairman at Loomis Sayles. “You just lost some very good underwriters.”...
...Puccini’s La bohème boasts a sparkling Musetta by the Cardiff “Singer of the World” (2005) soprano Nicole Cabell and a hugely promising Rodolfo from the tenor Dimitri Pittas....
...Olga Makarina sparkles delightfully as the Nightingale and the Blue Fairy, and Nicole Heaston brings attractively creamy tones to the Princess....
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