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...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...A dozen big US financial companies including BlackRock, Blackstone, KKR and T Rowe Price have warned that a backlash against sustainable investing is now a material risk, in filings that show how acrimony...
...With renewed scrutiny of Epstein’s crimes, financial institutions began to put new investments with Apollo on hold....
...So far, the mainstream financial services industry has been spared any knock-on effects of the carnage in crypto markets....
..., senior portfolio manager, to acknowledge investment team leaders building out its technological platform: “we now compete for talent with technology companies as we do with financial services firms,”...
...Sometimes that’s good, sometimes that’s not,” Lasry told the Financial Times....
...Ana Botín, executive chairman of Santander, the eurozone’s largest lender, told a financial services conference in March that there was a possibility the bank would see only a 5 per cent drop in earnings...
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...services.”...
...About $105bn worth were sold last year, down from $158bn five years earlier, according to the financial services trade association LIMRA....
...Rare is the financial transaction in which all sides can be declared a winner....
...into difficulties during the financial crisis....
...Otherwise we could not pay for all those tall buildings in financial districts....
...Spotify, the music streaming service, plans to list existing private shares directly on NYSE as soon as the fourth quarter rather than doing a formal IPO....
US stock volatility indices closed at their highest level of the year, US capital markets correspondent Eric Platt reports.
...In the Salman case, the Supreme Court reaffirmed its 1983 ruling in Dirks v SEC, which held that when an insider gives trading information to a relative or friend, it is effectively the same as if the insider...
...Defining personal gain, other than financial payments, has proven difficult....
...Said Mr Bewkes: “HBO’s going to up the ante again in 2014, increasing its original series hours and investment in original programming.”...
...Trilantic V North America is the company’s first fund after rising from the ashes of Lehman’s merchant banking unit four years ago....
...Weak investment returns have prompted several US life assurers – including Hartford Financial Services and Genworth – to scale back their annuities operations....
...John Paulson, the billionaire hedge fund manager, last year pressured the Hartford Financial Services Group to sell its life insurance business and refocus on other products....
...● New trade body ICI Global has hired Giles Swan from the Financial Services Authority as director of global funds policy....
...In contrast, a comparable fund at Blackstone, BCP V, was already above par at the end of the third quarter....
...For example, its $17.4bn TPG V fund was valued at less than 100 cents on the dollar at the end of 2010....
...The S&P 500 Financials sector also suffered, closing down 3.6 per cent, led by insurer Hartford Financial which dropped 7.5 per cent to $20.86....
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