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...“Investors see the opportunity in Spain, both coastal and urban.” The survey underscores the broadly buoyant mood in the hospitality sector that has driven a return to dealmaking after the pandemic....
...comments to which South Africa refers are clearly rhetorical, made in the immediate aftermath of an event which severely traumatised Israel, but which cannot be seen as demanding genocide,” said Malcolm Shaw...
...However, the conditional approval will help hedge funds including Pentwater, Millennium and DE Shaw, which each hold stakes worth more than $350mn in VMware, according to recent disclosures made for holdings...
...Additional reporting by Eung Sea A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on March 12. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Activist hedge fund DE Shaw last year urged FIS to review the structure of its business and was given a seat on the company’s board of directors in December....
...Executive pay has become a lightning rod for public anger against the water monopolies, which are accused of letting unknown quantities of raw sewage pour into rivers and coastal waters....
...However, FIS struggled to combine the two businesses and last year came under pressure from activist investors such as DE Shaw to review its strategy....
...Sainsbury’s sold its Shaw’s Supermarkets chain to Albertson’s in 2004 in the face of rising competition. Neither has rival German discounter Lidl found the market easy....
...Its outdoorsy brand is starting to catch on with a certain part of the US coastal elite....
...FIS’s decision to break up comes after activist shareholders DE Shaw and Jana Partners called on the company to review its business strategy, including considering undoing the 2019 deal....
...Hedge funds snapped up Berkshire Hathaway stock in the second quarter, with DE Shaw, Renaissance Technologies and Bridgewater Associates buying millions of shares in Warren Buffett’s conglomerate....
...DE Shaw, for example, last year jacked up the performance fees on its three main funds by 5 percentage points....
...Presumably this is why the activist investors DE Shaw and Jana Partners got involved in FIS. But that implies that the original deal was an epic mistake. Industries change....
...Instead a coastal narrative is used, centering the space around a communal “lighthouse” that offers children privacy in the sightline of the staff office....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on April 27 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Activist investors including DE Shaw and Jana Partners had been pressuring FIS to review its business strategy, including considering undoing the 2019 deal, since last year....
...For example: if Generic Greek God Capital is buying Widgetmaker Inc, 70 per cent of the equity it ponies up might come from one of its LBO funds....
...David Shaw’s DE Shaw, which manages about $27bn, gained 0.9 per cent in its main Composite fund but lost 2.3 per cent in its global macro Oculus fund, according to people familiar with its performance....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on March 7, 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...After the acclaim and awards showered on The White Lotus, Mike White’s bijou hotel-based black comedy-drama, the show returns for a second series, now shifted from Hawaii to a Sicilian coastal resort....
...“I have conducted more than 25 MND clinical trials and the tofersen trial is the first in which patients have reported an improvement in their motor function,” said Pamela Shaw, professor of neurology at...
...During the quarter, however, those businesses — including the brick maker Acme and flooring group Shaw — were able to raise prices and registered strong demand....
...However the only big change made was shifting production inland, where wages are still lower than in China’s more developed coastal provinces....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 24, 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Perhaps “something akin to grade inflation” could be afoot, DE Shaw said. Companies are getting smarter about their ESG disclosures, and their scores are improving, DE Shaw added....
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