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...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....
...This has raised $3.6bn for its first such fund so far....
...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....
...And the investments of this Covid recovery fund are supposed to be a big way that it’s supposed to do that — modernising many aspects of its economy, strengthening infrastructure so that it’s in a position...
...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...
...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....
...High-profile flops such as the Deliveroo IPO, structural trends like the fallout from the EU’s Mifid rules, and cultural differences with the US (notably vis à vis risk taking) are all playing a part....
...With payment deadlines for several large European gas importers fast approaching, the commission has clarified its guidance on sanctions-compliance vis-à-vis Gazprombank, saying that companies can open an...
...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...
...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....
...Sure, the buyout group that inspired the Wall Street classic Barbarians at the Gate still runs funds that snap up huge companies such as Unilever’s former margarine business to Envision, the controversial...
...Jio now has Top Ten of new investorsSaudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has invested Rs114bn ($1.5bn) into Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms, the tenth international investor to plough cash into the fast-growing...
...Wilderness Safaris’ newest, entirely solar-powered camp, Little DumaTau....
...must be built with low carbon materials (FT) Green Silicon Valley cannot escape diesel power (FT) Revealed: an Essex council’s £1bn borrowing spree to fund investment in solar power (FT) Post-crisis...
...He decided “really early on” that investment banking wasn’t for him....
...Daniel Sundheim, the former chief investment officer of Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Capital, and Greg Coffey, who was once the co-chief investment officer at Moore Capital, are among other hedge fund managers...
...The BBC and The Guardian said the British monarch, through the Duchy of Lancaster, a private estate, had committed £7.5m to Dover Street VI Cayman Fund LP in 2005....
...Yet, without a guaranteed, long-term revenue stream, it would be impossible to attract investment in new reactors....
...The first gazed heavenwards as a total solar eclipse passed by. The second saw humbler sights: farm fields....
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