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...The difference is important because an average corporation might go bust; the S&P 500 never will. Some members of the index will peter out, but others will soar....
...Some would probably argue that more information is not the same as better information . . . but c’mon....
...In the case of the McKinsey report published in 2020, the main study gathered data about diversity on the boards and in the C-suites of more than 1,000 large global companies....
...NewGAMe, which owns 9.6 per cent of GAM, has put forward investment industry veteran Randy Freeman as chief executive, a position currently held by Peter Sanderson, at an extraordinary general meeting in...
...And finally A few decades ago, the residents of Wigtown (population c. 1,000) in south-west Scotland wondered if they could follow Hay-on-Wye in Wales’s lead....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Big global equity trusts F&C (FCIT), Brunner (BUT) and Alliance Trust (ATST) have all outperformed the MSCI World index in the past year, thanks to their portfolios having less exposure to underperforming...
...Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by Peter Heather and John Rapley (Allen Lane) Western hegemony is in decline....
...“The hung [loans] have clogged up the system and held up capital but is likely temporary,” said Peter Gleysteen, chief executive of asset manager AGL Credit Management....
...Today it focuses on preserving Miyake’s legacy and developing the design culture for a new generation. miyakeissey.org J is for JW AndersonBritish designer Jonathan Anderson has donated to Akt, an LGBTQ...
...Roughly 80 per cent of the more than 430 S&P 500 constituents that have reported first-quarter results beat estimates....
...History and Academic Director of the Georgian Papers Programme, King’s College London Simon WoolleyBaron Woolley of Woodford, Principal of Homerton College, University of Cambridge David ArmitageLloyd C...
...The Australian defence department said a Chinese J-16 fighter intercepted a P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft during routine surveillance over international waters on May 26....
...Separately, data from Statistics Canada are expected to show a trade surplus of C$2.50bn in December. That is down from a surplus of C$3.13bn a month earlier, close to June’s 13-year high of C$3.23bn....
...A total of 51 large retailers filed for bankruptcy in the US in 2020 — a decade high, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...At each end, Jenkins’ clamshell bonnet and even more extreme C-130-inspired cargo plane rear opens up to swallow luggage in its 627-litre boot....
...C Coaching After Wimbledon, the men’s tour will trial allowing coaching during matches....
...Peter P Edwards Tiancun XiaoBenzhen YaoPeter J Dobson Gari Owen Oxccu Tech, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK...
...Professor Peter P EdwardsProfessor Peter J Dobson Tiancun XiaoBenzhen YaoUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK Gari Owen Annwvyn Solutions, Bromley, Kent, UK...
...PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel invested in AppHarvest in 2020, according to Dealroom, for example....
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...They illustrate their argument by comparing the paths to success of the richest people in Mexico and the USA (p. 39)....
...In 1959, the physicist and novelist C.P. Snow, gave a lecture in Cambridge called, “The Two Cultures” in which he deplored this “gulf of mutual incomprehension” between literary figures and scientists....
...Data for 2020 show that fewer than 6 per cent of the chief executives of S&P 500 companies are women, while the proportion of female executive or senior-level officials and managers is just over a quarter...
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