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...Investor support for environmental and social shareholder proposals has fallen sharply; the flow of US money into ESG-labelled funds has slowed after poor performance; prominent financial groups including...
...The Telegram channel for the group’s military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, had tripled in size from prewar levels, surpassing 619,000 subscribers, the report said....
...Sherrod Brown have also called for the deal to be referred to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the body responsible for evaluating overseas investments for any national security...
...and 3.5 bps for $1.6bn outsourced from the National Social Security Fund, sources have confirmed....
...Bailey has served on the boards of LCH Group and the London Stock Exchange Group....
...Macquarie Capital has hired Gabrielle Gauthey as a senior adviser to its infrastructure and energy group. Gauthey previously worked at Caisse des dépôts et consignations, a French public institution....
...No longer did banks’ lending officers decide on loans for businesses or mortgages; those decisions instead rested in the markets for mortgage-backed securities, corporate paper and junk bonds....
...Russia presents an interesting dilemma for western institutional investors, particularly those managing funds for public sector institutions....
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...In fact, the bondholder group have recently launched a website (here) and a Twitter account (here) to put across their case (trial by social media presumably awaits)....
...Ms Merkel will win the autumn German parliamentary elections, but with fewer seats for her Christian Democrat/Christian Social bloc....
...The UN Security Council on July 16 endorsed the agreement and urged support for UN-coordinated efforts to implement it....
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...BBVA, BMO Capital Markets, BPI, CM-CIC Securities, Espírito Santo Investment Bank, KBC Securities and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities will act as lead managers. www.ft.com/tradingroom...
...China’s top auditor, the National Audit Office said CIC – the world’s fourth-largest sovereign wealth fund and an investor in big US financial institutions such as Blackstone and Morgan Stanley – had incurred...
...Concerns about technology also seemed to play on the minds of novelists: social media in the case of Joshua Ferris’s Man Booker-shortlisted To Rise Again at a Decent Hour , the excesses of the security state...
...Abrahamson et al find evidence that “strategic pricing” (implicit collusion) is as strong as ever in the US IPO market....
...Lib Dems in local government who face electoral disaster because of the growing unpopularity of Clegg, Cable et al at a national level....
...Asking Hank Paulson, Timothy Geithner et al, who have the ear of the bankers, to oversee them, is akin to asking the fox to guard the chicken coop....
...Two securities class actions relating to Countrywide’s public offering of mortgage-backed securities: Luther v....
...There has been, for example, broad support for putting in the troops necessary in Afghanistan to deny al Qaeda safe haven, to break the Taliban’s momentum, and to train Afghan security forces....
...A Commission group he chaired called last month for powerful EU regulators in banking, securities and insurance....
...displaying public schadenfreude....
...The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a US not-for-profit group, has identified more than 215m records of US residents that have been exposed since January 2005 because of security failures....
...The paperwork for the arrest was rushed through on a Friday - a public holiday - and the powers used come from emergency laws designed to protect public security rather than tackle bureaucratic irregularities...
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