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...It had a flatter wing profile and it was the eureka moment, says Warming. “We could factually say the past already gave us a solution.”...
...Its flagship Eureka hedge fund this year added a “compensation surcharge” worth as much as 0.75 per cent of the fund’s value, to be used to reward high performers, a decision Marshall said at the time was...
...Send any stories of crazy pay packages my way: harriet.agnew@ft.com Meanwhile Marshall Wace seems to be taking the view that if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em: Its flagship Eureka hedge fund this year added...
...And when you find that, it's like a eureka moment....
...Its Tops China fund is up 36.2 per cent, while its Eureka fund, which is run by chief investment officer Mr Marshall, is up 4.6 per cent....
...“It was a real eureka moment,” Rebecca says. “We realised that these people who had enabled us to do so well up to that point and we considered as employees were in fact much more like our family.”...
...The team has implemented Closing Folders, a transaction management platform, and an app called Eureka, which is used to organise new ideas....
...Conversation with Adam Grant is peppered with what he and his students call “ahas” — to denote “eureka” moments and insights....
...Its TOPS fund is up more than 6 per cent this year, while its $17bn Eureka fund — a fund run by chief investment officer Mr Marshall that invests in a range of the firm’s funds — is up 7.5 per cent, according...
...This was Mace’s eureka moment: she plans to work with behavioural scientists to frame her policy recommendations in ways that “nudge” the public into adoption....
...Kevin Arenson, chief investment officer at Stenham Asset Management, which invests in hedge funds, said short selling has become unprofitable for generalist long-short hedge funds in recent years because...
...The flagship $17bn fund MW Eureka, which is overseen by co-founder and chief investment officer Paul Marshall, is up 1.7 per cent in the year to date although it was down 3.9 per cent net in October....
...Britain's chief medical officer issued a detailed report on its effect on health: those in poorer areas suffer the most....
...Gemma Sudlow’s eureka moment struck at a New York client reception. “This lovely lady came up to me, and she said, ‘How are you? It’s so lovely to see you.’”...
...Marshall Wace was founded in 1997 — making it one of London’s oldest hedge funds — by Mr Marshall, chairman and chief investment officer, and Ian Wace, chief executive and chief risk officer....
...Profits shared by the partners rose 83 per cent to £370m in the year to the end of February, helped by strong returns for its flagship Eureka and Market Neutral Tops funds....
...A curveball arrived with Peter Wright, a retired MI5 technical officer exiled in Tasmania. Having met Greengrass making a World in Action, Wright asked him to co-author his memoir....
...To have that eureka moment, he says you have to have dealt with security issues and have been in the trenches grappling with vexing problems....
...Truphone, the London-based company of which Mr Tagg is chief technology officer, operates in more than 220 countries and employs 750 people worldwide....
...Cue an impatient establishment officer (Charles Dance, wasted and underused) and several ink-splattering “eureka” moments over tea and biscuits in prefabs at Bletchley Park....
...But she also has “eureka” moments....
...The data which feeds into the algorithms comes from third-party providers such as Barclay Hedge, Lipper, Eureka and HFR, as well as the publicly available data collected by regulators....
...“It takes a particular skillset to take a eureka moment to product success,” says Mr Smith. “It therefore makes sense for universities to have a specialist partner.”...
...Eureka is up 12 per cent so far this year....
...The chief investment officer of European equities at one US asset manager says: “When you are buying European equities, you are not buying European companies, as the best companies generate a lot of income...
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