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...“We now have the largest exploration programme in the world,” said Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi’s Public Investment Fund, at the Future Minerals Forum mining conference in Riyadh in January....
...But the . . . what would Joe Nye used to call the soft power of the United States? That’s the way the United States would influence global affairs, right?...
...By not going ahead with [the Trans-Pacific Partnership], he deprived the United States of presence in the economic sense.” Biden’s foreign policy merits “a B or a B+”....
...So that’s given them a significant petrodollar windfall, which, you know, obviously gives them surpluses to put into their sovereign investment funds, the sovereign wealth funds, et cetera....
...Rothschild & Co has named Nasser Al Issa, the former investment chief of Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Co, as head of Saudi Arabia while making Britain’s former top civil servant Mark Sedwill...
...Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), the C$400bn global investment group, told my colleague Josephine Cumbo that the UK stood out because of its “pro business” stance....
...Honeywell ultimately sourced supplies from its subsidiary in China as Beijing allowed the equipment to be shipped to the UAE, before setting up a joint venture with Mubadala, a state investment fund, to...
...But we were supposed to pay reparations to the United States of America, the richest country in the world....
...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...
...Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s most active sovereign investment vehicle, which is headed by Khaldoon al-Mubarak, one of the emirate’s most influential policymakers, is also actively seeking investments, including...
...Amanda Staveley, a well-connected British financier, is one of the architects of the deal involving Public Investment Fund, controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Saleh Al Hashemi, chief executive of Algorythma, will join 500’s board....
...The United States has surged ahead of us, though....
...Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala state investment company has a $2bn joint fund with RDIF that has invested in strategic Russian businesses....
...Anthem Asia has just launched its debut $50m fund with an initial investment of $34.5m from three western development financial institutions: the UK’s CDC Group, the Dutch Good Growth Fund, and the World...
...According to data compiled by the investment bank Lazard, the fund launched eight activist campaigns in the first half of the year — twice as many as any other fund — forking out nearly double the amount...
...For three years the Salvadoran tycoon had watched millions of dollars haemorrhage from Avianca, one of Latin America’s biggest airlines, which is listed in New York and has a $1bn market capitalisation....
...investment / From Dr Stephan Singer, Brussels, Belgium...
...the suspected misappropriation of $4bn of Malaysian state funds....
...But while newspapers are increasingly taking their lead from BuzzFeed et al, and their mastery of content distribution via platforms such as Facebook, the digital upstarts are shifting focus to a distinctly...
...Magdy Amer, the Egyptian ambassador to China, said in Al-Ahram, the state-run daily, on Monday that Beijing will sign a $1bn loan agreement to shore up Cairo’s foreign currency reserves, and will open a...
...What is surprising is the failure of NYC pension fund trustees, the comptrollers office, consultants, auditors, pensioners et al to notice. Until now, Mr....
...Still, he too felt the pull of the siren song: I luxuriated in the polemics of Marc Faber and James Grant and Nassim Taleb, in our own country, Albert Edwards, et al....
...Bayer is less well known than his contemporaries at the Bauhaus – Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy et al – perhaps because, having emigrated from Germany in 1938, he spent so much of...
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