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...About 2,250 people attended the Saturday evening party at a cruise terminal, said organiser Yuga Labs, one of the pioneers in this market....
...investors after Liontrust bid fails (FT) Serious Fraud Office drops ENRC case after 10-year investigation (FT) Engie strikes $1.6bn US battery deal with Apollo, EnCap (Bloomberg) Women’s multiclub football pioneer...
...Jamie Salter, founder and chief executive officer of Authentic, said he was “excited” about the acquisition of an “original and outwear pioneer”. It also owns fashion brands Ted Baker and Juicy Couture....
...Griffin’s returns attracted the attention of hedge fund pioneer Frank Meyer, who bankrolled the launch of Citadel. By 2001, Institutional Investor declared him the “boy wonder” of his industry....
...Since setting up Ark Invest in 2014, Wood has carved out a position as a pioneer in the fast-growing market for actively managed ETFs, captivating the imagination of legions of retail investors and billions...
...Obituary of industry pioneer and longstanding chair of George Soros’s Quantum fund, one of the most successful funds of all time....
...He knew many tech industry pioneers, including HP’s founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard and Intel co-founder Gordon Moore....
...Vingroup got its start in real estate development, Vietnam’s most lucrative business sector, later branching out into a range of other businesses, including retail, education, and high tech....
...Audio clip. . . on the pioneer trail came the renegade horde, land sharks, highwaymen, cattle thieves, [sound of gun shot] terrorising settler and tribesmen alike....
...The two food-ordering pioneers have argued that the combination will create a global leader in an increasingly competitive market, with an experienced leader in Jitse Groen, who founded Takeaway.com 20 years...
...But after the venerable but faded online pioneer became a graveyard for the reputations of a succession of media and technology industry leaders, it probably would not pay to assume success too soon....
...exclusive Caribbean enclave of Lyford Cay, where Nygard would make an adversary who would take it upon himself to help engineer his downfall — his next-door neighbour, hedge fund billionaire and macro pioneer...
...Though he himself helped spark China’s casino boom, the gambling pioneer’s casinos were notably absent from the industry’s biggest windfall in recent history: sports betting....
...But the pioneer in private equity investing in sporting tournaments has been CVC Capital Partners, a Luxembourg-based buyout group that previously owned Formula One and MotoGP and is in talks alongside fellow...
...The founder of Vanguard, who died last year aged 89, was a pioneer of cheap, passive investing — and famously hated high-fee funds....
...However, research by smart beta pioneer Research Affiliates shows that factor funds’ performance has fallen far short of what they previously advertised to investors....
...Ebay, founded a year before Amazon, was an ecommerce pioneer as an auction site for buying and selling memorabilia and used items....
...The retail brokerage is chaired by billionaire Thomas Peterffy, who in the 1970s was among the first traders to use computers to help calculate the value of securities and options....
...A hundred years ago, pioneer capitalists such as Henry Ford bent to the task, shaping a new century of mass consumption....
...But many pension funds, endowments and even retail investors are still embracing this new approach....
...Mr Doctoroff said he hoped the city could pioneer new approaches to data policies and even “set an example” for other places....
...A year earlier, Harrah’s had been taken over in a bold $31bn leveraged buyout by Apollo Global Management and TPG, two private equity pioneers....
...Richard Repetto, analyst at Sandler O’Neill, suspects “getting the infrastructure to access retail flow” was among Virtu’s motives in pursuing the company. KCG and Virtu declined to comment....
...Companies such as IMC and Optiver were pioneers in automated trading, and account for a significant portion of the daily volumes on global markets....
...“Strategies that buy as the market goes up and sell as the market goes down are similar in nature,” says Hayne Leland, a finance professor and a pioneer of portfolio insurance in the 1980s....
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