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...“For companies that have to make investment decisions, that is absolutely toxic.”...
...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...Chart of the day Millions of people watched the total solar eclipse yesterday as it swept across Central and North America....
...Forget the solar eclipse, the latest big show for American nature-watchers is cicada-geddon: a natural phenomenon that last happened when Thomas Jefferson was US president in 1803....
...Raine also advised both sides as Nassef Sawiris and Wesley Edens welcomed new investment from investment firm Atairos into V Sports, the owner of Aston Villa, just days before Ratcliffe struck his agreement...
...This has raised $3.6bn for its first such fund so far....
...ESG factors in their investment decisions....
...GTCR, which took a minority equity investment from Blackstone two years ago, recently closed an $11.5bn fund that was double the size of its 2017 fund — a sign of investor confidence....
...The firm and its investors contributed about $9bn of the purchase price while Canadian pension fund CPP Investments put in $1.75bn....
...The fund said it has built A$20bn of investment to fund Origin’s transition to renewable energy sources by 2030....
...Repsol will sell a 25 per cent stake in its exploration and production business to US investment group EIG for $4.8bn as Spain’s biggest oil company seeks to raise funds for renewables investments to pivot...
...With renewed scrutiny of Epstein’s crimes, financial institutions began to put new investments with Apollo on hold....
...A number of clean energy projects have been announced since the bill’s passage, including a $1.1bn investment from First Solar, an American solar panel manufacturer, to build a facility in Alabama in November...
...Still, the losses eclipse some of the $4tn hedge fund industry’s biggest drops of recent years....
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...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...But he couldn't secure the investment, so the project was abandoned. Could this also be the fate of today's space solar power projects?...
...Tech tools — VanMoof V e-bike Dutch e-bike brand VanMoof today unveiled its entry into the high-speed bike category....
...Here’s the rough argument: solar and wind create more energy during the day than at night, when it’s needed....
...To verify the pollution reductions, the fund has partnered with Systemiq, a sustainability consulting and investment company....
...A top M&A lawyer, who first joined Linklaters in 1990, Jacobs will make his investment banking debut as JPM’s new co-head of investment banking in the UK, DD’s Arash Massoudi and the FT’s Kate Beioley report...
...Demand for investments may still outstrip supply, as investors rush to find backable entrepreneurs....
...The year was 2017, and Bezos’s wind farm christening, broadcast across Twitter, marked a turning point for the company, reflecting a surge of investment in renewable energy....
...Germany, Spain and the UK saw renewable energy eclipse fossil fuels for the first time in 2020, the report said. In France, wind and solar power alone overtook fossil fuels for the first time ever....
...“It’s easy — and largely accurate — to present the 2021 commodity outlook as a V-shaped vaccine trade,” said Goldman Sachs in a recent report....
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