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...Almost half of its funds, including those run by partners James Hanbury and Oliver Kelton, were later rebranded under the Brook name....
...Personal conduct: BP’s Bernard Looney is the most recent case of how embarrassing revelations about senior leaders can damage trust and cause significant upheaval....
...Its investment performance has propelled a 15-fold surge in Baillie Gifford’s assets under management over the past two decades, from £22bn at the end of 2000 to £326bn at the end of 2020....
...As investors, we are taught that hiding cash under the mattress is a woeful idea — it will be ravaged by inflation....
...Although Johnson was warmly received, those present say the donors boxed the prime minister’s ears over the troubles in his cabinet as well as the economic direction of the country under his leadership....
...For all of the recent changes, Nike’s essential tensions will persist into the next era: balancing its power as a global retailer and its formidable influence in style, social messaging and the culture at...
...Wason, one of its leading companies, made passenger coaches and streetcars for clients across the US and countries as far afield as Egypt....
...Ruthless professionalism replaced trust as the basis of transaction....
...Bronwyn Curtis, chairman, JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust It seems unlikely that the UK will see a resurgence in productivity growth in the near term....
...Alec Russell Editor of FT Weekend I will shamelessly abuse my position and plump for two outstanding novels....
...At once a gripping personal narrative and an insight into the cruelty and madness of North Korea....
...On Saturday the Labour party played its ace card in Scotland, with Gordon Brown joining Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy to campaign in Paisley and Renfrewshire North, to the west of Glasgow....
...Nonoguchi finds the corpse of a fellow writer; but as he had designs on the man’s wife, do we trust his story?...
...Brain surgery, that’s the most remote thing for me, I don’t know anything about it, and as it is with everything I’m ignorant of, I trust completely the skills of those who practise it, and tend to forget...
...It is understood that as part of the probe, journalists will be interviewed, and e-mails and financial records relating to police investigations will be trawled through....
...And wherever they end up, we trust it will reflect their own good taste: be it a backstreet noodle joint or a mountain-top Michelin-starred eyrie....
...He said Killik would only invest in the trusts as a short-term play, if their share prices stood at unusually wide discounts to their net asset values (NAVs). Simon James at Gore Brown agrees....
...James Serpell, a veterinary professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of In the Company of Animals (an argument for pet-keeping published in the 1980s), told me that it reminds him of...
...The nephew of James Bond’s creator Ian Fleming, and heir to the Robert Fleming Holdings fortune (the family’s merchant bank was sold to Chase Manhattan Bank in 2000 for $7.75bn), Adam also professes to be...
...“Let us be under no illusions – the Bakrie family and Roeslani will be the biggest shareholders,” said Rothschild, who put $180m of his own money into what he described as “a merger” and stands to make hundreds...
...And even as markets recover and consumer confidence returns, this publishing trend will continue: we have been reminded that we are all part of the financial world now – and that it was not terrorism but...
...God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World By Walter Russell Mead Atlantic £25, 320 pages FT bookshop price: £20 Walter Russell Mead adds religion to the mix of Anglo-Saxon virtues...
...The Bancroft family has treated Dow Jones as a public trust, not for personal or political interests, or maximum enhancement of family wealth by sale to a high bidder....
...Capital Gains Tax (CGT) A tax on chargeable gains of individuals, trustees and personal representatives of deceased persons....
...In particular, will it survive the regime change in Britain if – or when – Gordon Brown, the UK chancellor of the exchequer, becomes prime minister?...
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