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...STEVEN DENNING Chairman, General Atlantic LLC Steven Denning joined General Atlantic in 1980. Prior to GA, Mr. Denning was with McKinsey & Company....
...Proposals for regulating the industry were initially mooted a decade ago, in a 2002 Foreign Office green paper, following a scandal involving a nominally British firm during Sierra Leone’s civil war....
...Previously Chairman Levitt served on the boards of TIAA-CREF, Neuberger Berman, LLC, and Risk Metrics Group....
...The departure came just over a month after African completed the $1.5bn sale of a 25 per cent stake in its Tonkolili iron ore project in Sierra Leone to China’s Shandong Iron & Steel....
...● Sierra Investment Management, a Santa Monica-based boutique specialising in low volatility “absolute return” investing, has unveiled the Sierra Strategic Income Fund, which will invest in a rich variety...
...The airline also said more than three-quarters of its long-haul flights operated in the first two days of the strike , a figure analysts said was likely to strengthen management’s bargaining power....
...L&G, down 4.8 per cent to 62¼p, also damped speculation it might sell its asset management arm....
...Olivant is expected to lodge its bid proposal on Thursday to take over management of Northern Rock, the stricken bank....
...These analytic formulae were intended as risk management tools for institutional bond investors such as pension funds and insurance companies....
...Yet the scandal could also offer the new generation of management at Ifil a chance to assert itself....
...Healthcare has long been considered an industry ripe for consolidation as drug companies struggle to cope with dwindling research pipelines and health management groups seek scale as a foil against rising...
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