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...Private equity firm General Atlantic is teaming up with an Abu Dhabi state fund and the emirate’s largest listed company to launch a new investment group, underlining the continuing pull the oil-rich Gulf...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Mark Zuckerberg put much of his wealth in an investment trust for good causes in a tax efficient way....
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...“This fund is a good start, a step in the right direction to bring confidence back to the market,” said V Shankar, Standard Chartered’s chief executive for Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Americas....
...The deal is the latest in a series of strategic investments in India’s stock and derivatives exchanges, which are diversifying into new asset classes and embracing new technologies to attract so-called “...
...to raise funds....
...Articulate and driven, Jananayagam confirms the stereotype of the Tamil diaspora: she used to work as a bond trader at the investment bank Credit Suisse and ran her own hedge fund....
...“This is an investment where hedge funds got ahead of themselves,” said another person involved. “It is a sale of necessity.”...
...Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (on behalf of) suing in NYC and DC: Bassman v. Syron, et. al (FRE) Agnes v....
...The investment group is also considering starting a fund to invest in India....
...The launch of the fund comes days after meetings between Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum and top Chinese officials, including president Hu Jintao....
...DIC, an international investment arm of Dubai Holding, owned by Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has $13bn of assets across the world and aims over the next few years to treble its $1.5bn...
...DIC has three main divisions: a private-equity buy-out arm; the Global Strategic Equities Fund that takes large positions in publicly-traded stocks; and the emerging markets division....
...“This fund invests in large caps – we typically take positions of $500m-$1bn,” Sameer al-Ansari, DIC’s chief executive, told the FT recently. A $1bn investment would represent a 2 per cent stake....
...The holding, worth about €600m, has been acquired through the Global Strategic Equities Fund, which in early May revealed it had made a “substantial investment” in HSBC as part of a wider $10bn investment...
...DIC’s investment, worth €614m at Thursday’s closing price, was made through its global strategic equities fund....
...DIC, which is owned by the government of the UAE, said it had bought the stake via its $2bn Global Strategic Equities Fund....
...public offering of Kingdom Hotel Investments....
...Sameer al-Ansari, chief executive of DIC, aims to have 60 per cent of its investments in Europe and North America, while the remaining 40 per cent will be in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa....
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