Hints and tips:
...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
...Bridgewater Associates and Renaissance Technologies, both considered among the best hedge funds in the world, suffered steep losses....
...Associates from the time remember him as a fun boss who led a tight-knit group of employees....
...His title was associate, one of the lowest ranks in banking, but his colleagues gave him the unofficial status of “managing associate”, one former banker recalls, after noticing that he often provided answers...
...Investors need to guard against the temptation to skew their portfolios towards exotic assets offering the false prospect of higher risk-free returns....
...He is also encouraged by a “V-shaped” recovery in Asia, its largest market, and less dire forecasts for UK consumers....
...Ethan Ilzetzki, associate professor at the LSE: The UK economy will begin its recovery in 2021 but will not return to its pre-pandemic level of GDP until 2022....
...Bankers’ early optimism that the pandemic would manifest as a sharp economic shock followed by an equally rapid recovery — the ubiquitous “V-shaped” recession — has given way to pessimism....
...More importantly, this is likely one of the few areas in the portfolio with any investment market liquidity currently....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...However, the England v France game was cancelled due to Typhoon Hagibis, the most powerful storm to hit the country in decades....
...A danger of releasing some of the pressure that has held down borrowing costs is that tighter monetary policy chokes off economic recovery....
...The brother traded on the information and also tipped off Salman, who with an associate earned roughly $1.7m in profits....
...The brother traded on the intelligence and tipped Salman, who with an associate reaped roughly $1.7m in profits....
...Ms Robinson joins from RG Associates, a financial services consultancy she set up in 2009. • Luisa Greselin has moved to Macquarie Investment Management as head of distribution for Italy....
...The US government has since taken control of more than $480m that he and his associates had placed in bank accounts in Jersey, France and the UK....
...Uncertainty over fiscal policy, regulatory overhauls and the pace of the economic recovery has frozen business activity in many US sectors....
...As pension funds embraced the use of cheap index funds over the last decade, such advantages were pitched as a way for hedge funds to improve portfolios....
...Betting on a US recovery – as Mr Paulson’s aptly named Recovery Fund does – has been one of the most profitable trades around. And not just for Mr Paulson....
...“In April the Nikkei had a massive move,” said Anthony Lawler, portfolio manager at GAM International....
...Blackstone has amassed the largest portfolio in the sector with 28,000 homes, having spent $1.8bn on its Invitation Homes unit....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...The reshuffle plans, circulated in Thai media, show that some close business and political associates of Mr Thaksin and a leader of his “red shirts” support group are likely to gain cabinet positions – although...
..., making it difficult to participate in the recovery.”...
...Honda is also expected to introduce a redesigned CR-V late next year....
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