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...The anti-woke manager Strive has seen funds under management grow rapidly, but at $1bn, it remains a minnow in a sea of trillion-dollar whales....
...Management said that sales growth should be helped by increases in real wages, although it expected profit margins to be affected by higher wage costs....
...China and Russia are challenging US claims to mineral-rich stretches of seabed because Washington has failed to ratify a treaty — the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea — that governs access to resources...
...“There’s been a sea change of thinking,” said Peter Harrison, chief executive of FTSE 100 asset manager Schroders....
...The Teesworks regeneration body chaired by Lord Ben Houchen has lost a High Court bid to block the region’s Brookfield-owned port, the UK’s fifth largest, from any access rights to its land....
...While the company pointed to several issues that blighted the first quarter, including disruption in the Red Sea supply route that forced its Berlin plant to halt production, former executives and analysts...
...A new international business structure, headed by Rachel Lord, aims to boost BlackRock in fast growing markets outside the US....
...Tomé said that UPS was in a “good position” to take advantage of the rerouting of shipments in response to the drought in the Panama Canal and the escalating conflict in the Red Sea....
...Smart reads Pirate panic Security crises on the high seas are causing problems for the international economy, the Wall Street Journal writes....
...Flynn will retain another role as co-head of private wealth management, and succeeds Kim Posnett....
...The appointment of Lord Gerry Grimstone, an unpaid minister for investment from March 2020 to July 2022, was approved this month by the Whitehall watchdog that reviews whether appointments of former ministers...
...The party will also pledge to clamp down on water companies polluting the sea, rivers and lakes by expanding the powers of industry regulator Ofwat....
...“Jio BlackRock will place the combined strength and scale of both of our companies in the hands of millions of investors in India,” Lord added....
...He points out that the UK government’s new licences for North Sea oil and gas pose a big problem for banks that promised to no longer finance new fossil fuel projects....
...Because the SNB has primarily been interested in stemming the franc’s appreciation, it only purchased overseas equities, making it a small fish in a big sea....
...I got this idea from Lord John Lee, who recently popped in to the FT to record a Money Clinic investment masterclass podcast....
...A version of this article was first published on October 24 by Nikkei Asia. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Noel was a cousin of Lady Byron – once married to the Philhellene and poet Lord Byron, who met his end at Missolonghi in 1824. It was she who helped Edward Noel purchase the land in 1832....
...The AMP in AMP8 stands for asset management period. It’s Ofwat’s framework for allowed returns that’ll run for five years from April 2025....
...“I’m a sea-gypsy, in boats since I was four,” he said....
...The $31bn company has sometimes been described as tech’s answer to management consultancy....
...Lord Peter Hain, the veteran anti-apartheid campaigner, had called Bain’s behaviour “despicable” and said he was “very disappointed” the UK government was lifting its ban....
...Reza Priyambada, a senior researcher at CSA Research Institute, sees no need for a management shake-up....
...The metals tycoon said that after he resigned as a director of En+ in May 2018, he had “no relation to the business of that company” and “trusted the management and Lord Barker” to form a plan to rescue...
...The main culprit is not climate change, though it is a big one, but changes in land and sea use, particularly deforestation....
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