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...BlackRock has hired Morgan Stanley’s Patrick Haskell as head of municipal bonds. He will replace Peter Hayes following his retirement early next year, according to an internal memo seen by DD....
...Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714, by Kevin Sharpe, Yale, RRP£45/$65 The third and final volume in Sharpe’s superb series on how the British monarchy projected its public...
...Patrick’s impossible mother is dead and her funeral is attended by what is left of the family and a few mad, deluded and bad hangers-on....
...In terms of the Sharpe ratio, a measure of risk-adjusted return, bank funds did slightly less worse than non-bank funds recording a ratio of -0.043, against -0.053 for non-bank funds....
...“In 10 years time I think there will be 10 to 15 societies [that are] well capitalised and major players in the market,” says Robert Sharpe, chief executive of West Bromwich....
...“But minimum variance portfolios have never been designed to have good Sharpe ratios....
...A collection of designers including John Smith, Linda Fredheim, Nick Proud, Robert Edge, Benton van Dorsselaer, Jon Hemming and Brendan Sharpe, as selected by the Tasmanian Furniture Designers’ Association...
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