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...Vista was forced to turn to lenders in the burgeoning $1.5tn private credit industry instead of banks....
...Just becoming approachable but no sign of ageing. £16.50 Corney & Barrow Sierra de Toloño 2020 Rioja (13.5%)Edgy and very modern in a good way, verging on natural....
...Amador, in the Sierra above Sacramento, is home to a mere 200 souls....
...Wingefors bought back the business for a nominal £1....
...Sierra Space, a newly-created subsidiary of the Sierra Nevada Corporation, first announced its attention to create a space station in April, touting an economic opportunity projected to grow to $1.4tn by...
...Fund groups used to buy traditional rivals for well under 1 per cent of AUM. AllianceBernstein paid more than 5 per cent for CarVal....
...This year, the average price of a tonne of Grenache grapes was A$1,209 (£660) — higher than for any other major grape....
...CO2 equivalent burnt: 1.24 tonnes....
...There were wild rhododendrons, lupins, cotoneaster, laurel, oak, poison oak, ferns and young redwoods....
...Still, Athene estimated its markdowns this year could total between $1bn and $2bn compared with the $1.3bn in profits it tallied in 2019....
...Caldera is asking for at least $1.5bn in damages. Mr Siddiqui, a veteran of Wall Street who has also worked at Oak Hill Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs, left Apollo early last year....
...Since its financial crisis low in October 2008, MSCI’s stock has climbed 1,143 per cent, compared with the S&P 500’s 158 per cent gain over that period....
...Concluding every view, brilliantly illuminated, rose the snow-peaks of the Sierra Nevada....
...Angel Oak, an Atlanta, Georgia-based firm, is presently marketing a $329m non-QM deal, easily its biggest to date....
...The wildfires across California this year have killed at least 14 people and destroyed more than 1,000 homes....
...After analysing more than 1,000 cities around the world, Inrix, a transportation software and data provider, reckons LA is the most congested....
...Sierra owns 40 per cent of the block, Talos has 35 per cent and Premier 25 per cent....
...Talos, which operates the block off the coast of Tabasco state, has indicated that the field holds a massive 1.4bn to 2bn barrels of oil....
...The initiative was inspired by the 2013-4 Ebola outbreak in West Africa which killed 11,000 people, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone....
...Her team, which oversees $1.1bn for 850 households, does not recommend alternatives to most investors until they approach $1m. “It isn’t for everyone,” she says....
...“We wanted to preserve the hotel’s DNA,” Christian Boyens, the hotel’s general manager, told me over tea at the new Salon Proust, an oak-panelled space off the main corridor named after the French writer...
...London-based Winton and Los Angeles-headquartered Oak Tree have emerged as the less successful participants in the scheme....
...“We are encouraging people to seek out Santiago, the former capital and a melting pot of Spanish, Jamaican and Haitian cultures, set beside the Sierra Maestra mountains.”...
...Lack of financing and falls in the iron ore price have forced the company temporarily to shut down production at Tonkalili, its Sierra Leone iron mine....
...1) The emergence of private equity It’s still early days for the private equity sector in Africa and many of the region’s stock markets remain relatively small and illiquid....
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