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...movie, by director Stephen Gyllenhaal, styles itself as “an inconvenient truth” for philanthropy and is built around Pallotta’s influential TED talk of 2013 where he demanded charities be freed from the sackcloth-and-ashes...
...Since Leon Black co-founded the group in 1990 from the ashes of junk bond house Drexel Burnham, Apollo has consistently taken opportunistic positions in distressed debt, trying to profit by trading in loans...
...Martin Deboo, analyst at Jefferies, said Mr Narasimhan’s “debut commentary reflects a big helping of sackcloth and ashes tempered by a dose of optimism”....
...Any material he chooses — sackcloth or ashes, gold leaf or plastic — becomes sensuously engaging, and persuasive as an irreducible essence of painting....
...But there are a number of reasons to believe that with this particular problem, a fusion of sackcloth, ashes and renunciation simply will not work....
...A third of a century ago, employees of the US telecoms company AT&T marked its federally mandated break-up not quite by donning sackcloth and ashes....
...“That we are forced to illuminate positive sentiment in the proverbial ashes, only illustrates the difficulty faced by many.”...
...HAV has risen like a bulbous phoenix from its ashes. Indeed, Mr Munk is listed as a former director (he is deceased)....
...Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, venerated in the 2013 documentary Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s, were scooped up by TPG Capital and Warburg Pincus for $5.1bn in 2005, several years before the financial...
...Admittedly, some of the sackcloth and ashes can be attributed to “New Chief Executive Syndrome”....
...Trilantic V North America is the company’s first fund after rising from the ashes of Lehman’s merchant banking unit four years ago....
...As for the rest, it is clear that Serco is in for three months of sackcloth, ashes and scrutiny....
...The days of sackcloth and ashes – and tighter regulation – are not yet over for banks that got caught in the 2007-08 crisis....
...“How the brave new world arrives, And I see how it thrives, In the ashes of our lives.” Rarely has Abba’s Happy New Year anthem sounded so fitting for stock markets as it does this January....
...Unlikely as it sounds, the poor performance of Tesco’s core UK business may not be the toughest subject for Philip Clarke next week as he dons sackcloth and ashes to announce the retailing titan’s first...
...But what are the odds of these noble promises enduring past the usual period of sackcloth and ashes at the bottom of the banking cycle? Not very high, I’m afraid....
...“There are real risks to putting on a sackcloth and ashes.” Are there times when it’s OK to be less modest? Beware of false economies....
...As a sign of their collective sackcloth and ashes, Bob Diamond and three other senior executives have agreed to rule themselves out of being considered for an annual bonus this year....
...“We are not asking them to wander around in sackcloth and ashes. We are saying give up one of your Lamborghinis or your private jet.”...
...Australia Australians congregated at private parties, sports clubs and outdoor venues to watch live broadcasts of the royal wedding in numbers to rival only an Ashes cricket Test match....
...But the idea that it’s all sackcloth and ashes is rubbish. What is the greatest achievement of your life so far?...
...Trilantic Capital, the private equity firm born out of the ashes of Lehman Brothers, is poised to announce two new investments in Europe, buying control of Italian slot machine operator Gamenet and taking...
...Pickles: We dress quangocrats in sackcloth and ashes and throw rotten fruit at them. Then we force them into mortal combat at Newbury Racecourse....
...But should the Republicans control both houses of Congress, they should not expect, in the ashy dawn of November 3, a chastened president to appear in the Rose Garden mantled in sackcloth and ashes....
...“This news may upset those who think that City folk should all be wearing sackcloth and ashes.”...
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