Hints and tips:
...A group of Silicon Valley executives received a personal invite from the office of Yasir al-Rumayyan, the governor of PIF, the $620bn Saudi sovereign wealth fund, to be his guest at last month’s Formula...
...Mubarak is chief executive of Mubadala, an Abu Dhabi sovereign investment fund that took a stake in Silver Lake in 2020....
...Ultimately, Raine whittled it down to a Qatari group led by Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani and Monaco-based British billionaire Ratcliffe....
...In a recent letter to investors, Smith noted that the new flagship fund is on track to be the “largest pool of capital” it has ever raised. Its previous flagship fund raised $16bn in 2018....
...Bluebell Capital, a small London-based fund, earlier this month disclosed a stake in Kering....
...Private equity firm General Atlantic is teaming up with an Abu Dhabi state fund and the emirate’s largest listed company to launch a new investment group, underlining the continuing pull the oil-rich Gulf...
...Its most powerful executive, Michael Milken, pitched “high-yield” bonds as an attractive alternative to debt issued by safer, investment-grade companies....
...the investment group overseen by Sheikh Hamed is these days arguably outstripped by other Abu Dhabi funds like Mubadala....
...Daniel Loeb’s $20bn-in-assets hedge fund, which is among the most prolific activists, has built a stake in Shell worth close to $750m and is pushing the group to split itself into multiple companies....
...Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a billionaire businessman and member of the Abu Dhabi royal family, bought Manchester City in 2008....
...On Wednesday, Silver Lake and Mubadala announced a deal whereby the Abu Dhabi wealth fund would acquire a stake in the private equity group off of Dyal Capital, which had bought a near 10 per cent stake...
...Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a billionaire businessman and member of the Abu Dhabi royal family, bought Manchester City in 2008....
...Warren’s bold campaign agenda includes sweeping reforms that would curb bankers’ pay, reverse the recent easing of bank capital and liquidity rules, reintroduce the separation of commercial banks and investment...
...When the Colony Capital chief executive was trying to get himself installed as Middle East envoy in 2017, he sent a text message to a businessman and reputed Emirati intelligence asset named Rashid al-Malik...
...The known links between Qatar and Brookfield all converge on the investment group’s listed property fund BPY....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...Blackstone Group, Starwood Capital, the Canadian pension fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC are among the biggest borrowers on GSE commercial loans...
...He had advised a group creating a regional development fund, Terengganu Investment Authority, in early 2009....
...No one person is going to solve climate change, which is why donors such as Jeff Skoll, a former eBay executive, have focused on galvanising public opinion through grass roots campaign groups, public relations...
...“We have cash,” Ahmad al-Sayed, who on Tuesday was promoted to chief executive of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, remarked in 2009. “Cash is king.”...
...Rashid Al-Naimi, acting chief executive at QFE, said: “As a long-term global investor, our shareholding gives us exposure to a high growth sector in key emerging markets....
...Hussein al-Banawi of Saudi Arabia has also joined the corporate governance body’s board. He is chairman and chief executive of the Banawi Industrial Group, the board of which also includes Mr Ansari....
...Mr Sarkozy had none of that, but he had grown close to the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani’s family during his presidency....
...The other one was Challenger, an investment vehicle of Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, and his family....
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