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...When the pioneers of modern private equity, Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts, raised $30m for their first buyout fund in 1978, the money came from a tight circle of backers....
...There were 62 episodes of Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad: Gilligan himself wrote 13....
...But following a trading update this week, chief executive Simon Roberts was quick to shoot down speculation. “If we had anything to update on, we’d be updating on it,” he curtly told reporters....
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...She also worked on the BBC’s Gunpowder, which tells the story of the 17th century plot to blow up parliament in London and kill the king, and which features Game of Thrones star Mr Harington as Robert Catesby...
...In January the club spurned a £20m offer from US businessman Robert Sarver to buy control of the club and ease its financial woes....
...The New Oasis resolution also proposes appointing to the board Mr King and allies Paul Murray and John Gilligan....
...Ms Gilligan, meanwhile, expressed confidence to the committee that the battery safety problems were fully resolved....
...Those “guys in the middle of the desert”, shooting Vince Gilligan’s brilliantly perverse tale of a chemistry teacher turned crystal meth dealer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are now all famous; Cranston, as...
...Marcus Roberts, head of student investment at Savills, says the market is shifting towards purpose-build accommodation and away from older housing stock that is often outmoded and poorly located....
...Mr Gilligan thinks privacy can be an issue for the famous, but seldom when it comes to their intellectual property....
...Taking a more proactive role for Mr Miliband will be Bob Roberts, currently political editor of the Daily Mirror....
...Get Scarlett to agree and, for God’s sake, don’t let Andrew Gilligan find out.” Mr Blair breaks down: “I admit it. I lied. I just wanted George to be my friend. I always liked Saddam....
...John Chatfeild-Roberts, a well-established multi-manager at Jupiter, says that more investment freedom does not automatically mean better performance....
...“Neptune’s Green Planet fund has underperformed what is probably a reasonable benchmark for it, the MSCI World Small Cap Index, since launch in late 2006,” says Robert Lockie, a certified financial planner...
...The answer, says Robert Gardner, partner at pension consultancy firm Redington Partners, is derivatives....
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...But the price is whimsy: it had, for example, backed the invasion of Iraq - but then acquired as regular contributors journalists such as Andrew Gilligan and Rod Liddle, commentators most identified with...
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