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...One investor described Apollo’s attempted takeover of rail and bus operator FirstGroup as “highway robbery”.Indeed, THG described Apollo’s bid as “unacceptable” and based on “smart financial engineering”...
...“He was a legendary investor himself,” said Dixon Boardman, chief executive of Optima Asset Management, who worked with Robertson at broker Kidder, Peabody & Co about 45 years ago before Robertson founded...
...“I think Chase is one of the hardest-working, most intense, most competitive people I’ve ever come across,” said Dixon Boardman, chief executive of Optima Asset Management who invests in Tiger and also previously...
...Ride-hailing services such as Uber encouraged people who might have walked or caught a bus to take a taxi. Driverless cars may encourage more car trips from non-drivers....
...CC: One final question: we’ve talked about AR as a utility, while you’re out in the real world — using AR to complement your life, whether that’s looking up bus times through AR, or the menu at a restaurant...
...The UK bus and train operator FirstGroup recently said it was evaluating a £1.23bn offer from private equity group I Squared Capital....
...“It’s impossible to get a bus at the moment,” Dickins says. “Artists and managements have to be clear that if you don’t need to take a huge production on the road, then please don’t....
...The Tiger Cubs “were buying growth today and tomorrow but the earnings weren’t there in some of the stuff they were buying”, said Dixon Boardman, chief executive of Optima Asset Management, who has previously...
...When air travel became as ubiquitous as getting on a bus, the glamour of the job diminished. Virgin Galactic wants to send more than 1,300 private astronauts to space per year starting this decade....
...“Aaron was a great, great man,” said Optima’s Boardman. “It would be too much to say he was responsible for Julian’s success . . ....
...partner companies were Al Alam Solutions, a Dubai payment processor with thinly staffed operations in the Emirate, PayEasy Solutions, a Philippine payments business that shares an office with a Manila bus...
...After that, they were collected directly them from their homes each day and dropped off to eliminate the risk of workers catching the virus on a bus or train....
...What if I get hit by a bus?” says Ms Napier-Pearce. These talks led to the conversion of the newspaper into a non-profit [organisation] that can draw donations directly from the community....
...After completing his degree, Roche was apprenticed to Ireland’s greatest modernist architect, Michael Scott, in 1945, where he worked on the designs for the Busáras bus station, Dublin’s first significant...
...It was late on a winter’s night when I virtuously decided to take the night bus home from a concert....
...FirstGroup, the British owner of America’s Greyhound bus service and one of the biggest train operators in the UK, has rejected an all-cash offer from private equity group Apollo....
...Let me be the first to suggest that we start by taking away pensioners’ free bus passes. henry.mance@ft.com...
...“In the meantime, a strong balance sheet and solid bus earnings, however, should allow the company to maintain or increase its dividends going forward.”...
...Demonstrations included a robot car merging with other traffic at a range of speeds — a problem that defeated one of Waymo’s cars early last year, when the vehicle drove into the side of a bus that did not...
...It also stands 7 metres high, about the height of a double-decker bus, and weighs just under 6 tonnes....
...Volkswagen’s Truck & Bus unit will invest $256m in Navistar, buying shares at $15.76 each — a 12 per cent premium to their last closing price, writes Patrick McGee in Frankfurt....
...“When they were willing to throw one of their own people under the bus to protect the campaign it was very obvious where their loyalties were,” says Mr Bardella....
...Returning to London’s Heathrow a few days later, and too weary to face the 90-minute late-night Tube and bus journey home, I treated myself to the 15-minute Heathrow Express to Paddington, only to discover...
...“If you have ‘been to the right schools’, as it were, you can raise money, but for the general run of the mill it is going to be a very difficult period,” said Dixon Boardman, founder of Optima, a fund of...
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