Hints and tips:
...Property site Redfin estimates the home is worth $23mn, though top real estate agents in the area said recent comparable sales would probably put its value in the range of $75mn to $90mn....
...The US Foreign Agents Registration Act requires lobbyists such as Desai to register and disclose their contracts with foreign nationals such as Troost....
...“It went from being less about the annual salary [of the agents] to the collective value of the company and long-term value of the clients.”...
...I think that you’re going to get a lot of your customer service done by speaking to an intelligent agent....
...The classic principal and agent relationship — where an investor outsources management of their assets to an outside party — is rife with potential conflicts of interest....
...Amazon Web Services and Microsoft intended to expand in London before the pandemic but have put the plans on hold, according to one office leasing agent in the capital....
...Tepid demand from broadcasters in the latest round of rights auctions, uncertainty about Fifa’s agents rules, and the Premier League’s recent embrace of spending rule enforcement may all be having an effect...
...If such assistants are linked to other internet services, they could also become agents, taking action on their users’ behalf....
...The structure would be like the airlines and the travel agents. Airlines determine the schedules on flights. Travel agents don’t have any control over that....
...“Any time a major contractual breakthrough occurs, people look at it as the end of civilisation as we know it”, said Leigh Steinberg, an independent sports agent best known as the inspiration for the film...
...Last week, as part of Amazon’s attempt to capitalise on the excitement around generative AI, Limp unveiled the company’s plans for the next iteration of Alexa, which he said would be “smarter and more conversational...
...occurred any event, condition or state of facts which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on any Loan Party or any Subsidiary and no representations made or information supplied to Agent...
...Real estate agents say one firm stands out for driving demand: Citadel....
...“I know it’s fucking irritating,” says the ringer of bad news, a chap called Piers, who introduces himself as Dorries’s agent....
...However, there was no lock-up on agents included in the deal, one of the people said, though most have non-compete clauses in their contracts....
...Top agents and staff at the agency will continue to own 34 per cent of CAA after the Pinault family completes its purchase, expected by year-end....
...This tends to reduce returns to owners rather than agents. Economic sages Hyman Minsky and JK Galbraith saw markets as innately unstable. They were right....
...Raine has maintained close ties with two serial dealmakers: Son and Ari Emanuel, the super agent who was another early backer....
...But McMahon was sold on the tenacious young Emanuel, and hired him to be his agent....
...(Matt’s book Think Faster, Talk Smarter has more on this)....
...Athene and Apollo had themselves merged, in large part, to eliminate the inherent principal/agent inefficiencies between an insurer and an affiliated asset manager....
...The risk is that smarter machines may only make dumber humans....
...It became apparent . . . the models would get smarter with more feedback,” Vaswani says. “It was too compelling not to pursue this.”...
....* “Independents have always been the smarter option,” said Kenneth M Jacobs, chief executive of Lazard, referring to boutique investment banks....
...As you can imagine, you know, if you just have an agent, a computer agent that you can talk to that will tell you anything, there are a whole bunch of risks and dangers that come from that....
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