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...The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Bloomsbury/Knopf) Another whopper of a book this year comes from Frankopan, author of the 2015 bestseller, The Silk Roads....
...Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change by Simon Sharpe (Cambridge University Press) To have a chance of keeping global warming to 1.5C, the global economy...
...Ethan Wu The William Sharpe. Alex ScaggsI was . . . Yes, so the William Sharpe....
...He will replace Peter Hayes following his retirement early next year, according to an internal memo seen by DD....
...Tom Sharpe, a retired Royal Navy commander, said: “Only time will tell if the appointment of a naval commander here is a political stunt or not.”...
...The Harrow-educated Blackwell was “Chris Whiteworst” to Peter Tosh, the firebrand Wailer member whose story is told in Nicholas Campbell’s 1992 film Steppin’ Razor: Red X....
...Peter Shepard, head of analytics research and product development at MSCI — one of the indexing industry’s Big Three, alongside FTSE Russell and S&P Dow Jones Indices — has been working on the quest to produce...
...But the deal is now the focus of legal claims from nearly a dozen early shareholders who believe that Lux and its managing partners, Peter Hébert and Josh Wolfe, forced them to sell out for less than the...
...He joined the trust department of Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, slowly moving up the ranks to become assistant director of investment research, a “bastion of orthodoxy in its purest form”, according to Peter...
...In London, Kenzo meets Sarah, an isolated police officer played by Kelly Macdonald; Rodney, a chaotic rent boy (Will Sharpe); and the dangerous duo of East End gangster Abbott (Charlie Creed-Miles) and his...
...“David noted that it is important for him to focus his efforts on ensuring that his businesses are best positioned for continued growth,” said Peter Sharpe, director of the Postmedia board....
...The Democratic pollster Peter Hart argues that her biggest problem with voters is not a glass ceiling but a “glass curtain”....
...Peter Sleep, senior portfolio manager at Seven Investment Management, the UK wealth manager, adds that investors should see back tests as a “marketing document”....
...Alison Sharpe Sydney, NSW, Australia...
...I realised that I was the woman who cleaned up Sir Tom / From Alison Sharpe, Sydney, NSW, Australia...
...After the lofty altitudes of Snyder’s thought, it is almost a relief to come down to earth in Peter Longerich’s detailed biography of Joseph Goebbels....
...That applies to Peter Lynch, who left Fidelity’s Magellan fund at the age of 46. Its subsequent deterioration came years later, and did not affect his reputation....
...However, diversified and opportunistic portfolios were more volatile and delivered lower Sharpe ratios (risk-adjusted returns) than the core strategy....
...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...
...Siobhan Sharpe (Jessica Hynes) is the PR chief, curt to those without celebrity aura, fawning to those with it, babbling a meaningless upbeat soundtrack....
...He says the index has a Sharpe ratio, a measure of the excess return per unit of risk in a trading strategy, of 0.7 over the past 30 years, better than equities or fixed income....
...Heinrich Himmler: A Life, by Peter Longerich, translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe, Oxford University Press, RRP£25 Longerich, one of Germany’s leading authorities on the Third Reich and the Holocaust...
...US Prof Arnoud Boot,University of Amsterdam,Amsterdam, The Netherlands Prof Markus Brunnermeier,Princeton University,Princeton, NJ, US Prof John Cochrane,University of Chicago,Chicago, IL, US Prof Peter...
...And 93-year-old Sir Peter O’Sullevan, the great TV commentator, insists – almost certainly correctly – that the sport is far straighter too....
...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....
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