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...The anti-ESG backlash has captured public attention and opened up a transatlantic rift....
...His holding company managed a sprawling portfolio that included billion-dollar-plus stakes in companies such as Apple, Netflix, Forest Labs and Herbalife, while he was plotting bids to take over Clorox and...
...However, Weinstein et al say they are excited to a large extent because those aforementioned risks are now materialising. As private credit investors, this is the environment we’ve been waiting for....
...The California Public Employees’ Retirement System and Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec have also filed a petition that is up for a vote tomorrow, demanding Berkshire publish a climate report....
...After cementing a £300mn takeover of Newcastle United in 2021, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s $650bn Public Investment Fund took a multibillion-dollar swing at golf with the breakaway LIV Golf circuit, set...
...Lazard has hired Wassim Al-Khatib, the former head of Citigroup in Saudi Arabia, as chief executive of its advisory business in the Middle East and north Africa....
...(Myles McCormick) Data Drill For public companies hunting for growth, Enverus’s new catalogue of the largest 100 private oil and gas producers is practically an M&A target list....
...In the US, at least, mom-and-pop investors and advisers build portfolios with the categories used by Morningstar et al....
...What else we’re reading Killing of al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri deals setback to Taliban The assassination of the al-Qaeda leader has revealed Washington’s ability to conduct extensive surveillance and...
...Africa reaches out In a rare example of an African company making a tech acquisition in the US, digital payments company MFS Africa said it would buy Oklahoma-based Global Technology to accelerate its...
...ExxonMobil’s stock market recovery first began when Pfizer et al announced that they had developed a strong slate of anti-Covid vaccines in November 2020....
...When we launched the company publicly at the end of the summer of 2015 we announced that we had nine founding members and by the following Friday we were up to 22. By December were up to 40-plus....
...While the rise of non-bank lenders such as Apollo, Blackstone and Ares has been a boon to many companies at a time when banks have retrenched, Moody’s says the “explosive” growth of private credit is storing...
...A basket of 22 insurtech companies has lost more than a quarter of its value so far this year, according to the HSCM Public Insurtech Index....
...(Gillian Tett and Kristen Talman) Al Gore: climate finance has reached a tipping point The biggest question coming out of the G20 is when, if ever, will all of this talk about reducing emissions translate...
...bundle in a cloud gaming service....
...“Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose,” he declared, warning that companies flouting this principle would lose their social “licence”....
...Fitch on Tuesday gave Adnoc a standalone credit rating of double A plus, which the rating agency said sat at the upper end of its spectrum for oil and gas companies....
...House of Cards, BoJack Horseman and Orange Is the New Black to brag about until the cavalry — Stranger Things, Narcos et al — arrived....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...The market might be concerned about TATE’s exposure to Out-of-Home (OOH) soft drink (CSD) consumption (via HFCS & Sucralose) plus Food Service (via starches & solutions)....
...The RealReal et al make money through volume of sales. And as their share of the overall retail market grows, one wonders how it will eventually impact luxury fashion as a whole....
...“It’s very, very, very hard to make deals in a world where you’ve got $1tn-plus of money, plus just the normal animal spirits of corporate leaders and everything else, and accessibility to extraordinarily...
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