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...Mystery money machine At its peak in 2022, Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates managed $168bn, more than twice the size of its closest competitor....
...The deal follows an activist campaign at ACC, which was pressured by its shareholder Land & Buildings Investment Management to look for ways of maximising shareholder value....
...The buildings share clear similarities. Both have received government subsidies aimed at allowing tenants on low incomes to find a foothold in one of America’s most expensive cities....
...HSBC has appointed Eileen Murray, the former co-chief executive of Bridgewater Associates, as an independent non-executive director....
...The 83-year-old Ortega, who started making dresses in 1963 and throughout the years went on to build a fashion retailing group worth about €58bn, has selected seven close associates to run Pontegadea’s investments...
...Think of the humble long player, or LP, a medium which we associate with the halcyon days when music meant something, man....
...He has been credited with building one of the best investment track records at Carlyle since joining in 1992....
...Shorting China James Chanos Founder of Kynikos Associates and famed for betting against Enron, the fraudulent energy company that collapsed in 2001....
.... ——————————————– China: Authoritative people will speak The state of reform, the limits of debt capacity, the cult of Xi and the tensions building up within the elite, RMB and the impossible trinity:...
...Elliott Associates, an activist hedge fund, is known for challenging companies’ management and calling for change....
...New York-based Elliott Associates first began building its stake in Alliance Trust in 2011....
...Is he truly building a succession plan,” asked the shareholder, adding it would not hold up the fundraising....
...A restructuring at the Samsung group has run into opposition, with US hedge fund Elliott Associates attempting to block the merger of two key affiliates of the South Korean conglomerate....
...You need the network effect to make it work,” Kevin McPartland, head of market structure research at Greenwich Associates, a capital markets consultancy....
...Even as Samsung’s founding family savours victory over US activist fund Elliott Associates, it is digesting new evidence of the threat posed by foreign investors to South Korea’s chaebol business model....
...Activist fund Elliott Associates is trying to block a takeover of construction business Samsung C&T by sister company Cheil Industries....
...They argue that activists are often short sighted and more interested in quickly lining their own pockets than building a long-term investment....
...Samsung’s succession process has come under attack from US hedge fund Elliott Associates, which is trying to block a deal involving the group’s construction business that it claims will only benefit the...
...Ian Ward, a former chief executive of Leeds Building Society, will be vice-chairman....
...He is clearly a star,” Mr Colson asserts over coffee in his company’s London office within the Economist building in Mayfair, the district that serves as home to the capital’s hedge fund elite....
...Last week, it emerged that Elliott Associates – one of the most belligerent US hedge funds – has been building a stake in struggling grocer Wm Morrison and pushing for a shake-up of its property portfolio...
...An activist investor is demanding that Juniper Networks return an additional $3.5bn to shareholders, making it the latest technology company to attract criticism for building up a large cash pile....
...Trading over Christmas was dire and Elliott Associates, the US activist hedge fund, has been building a stake....
...This was swiftly followed by £25m from Idan Ofer, formerly Israel’s richest man, plus a further £34m from a range of investors, towards the refurbishment of the school’s latest building, Old Marylebone Town...
...(Financial Times) “Riverbed Technology received a buyout offer from activist fund manager Elliott Associates LP, valuing the computer-networking company at more than $3 billion.”...
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