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...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....
...More critically, the company’s fleet of more than 500,000 cars was financed off-balance sheet through special purpose vehicles....
...Spacs: the blank-cheque blitz of 2020 No one had a glow-up in 2020 quite like the special purpose acquisition company, or Spac....
...The FT’s Due Diligence team explains how mutual back-scratching has brought together Mubadala chief Khaldoon Al Mubarak, who chairs City Football Group, and Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban....
...They said in a statement that the group is structured along industry verticals and that customers contract mostly with the group’s four “international service delivery hubs” in Germany, Dubai, Ireland and...
...group called Generation....
...(FT) ‘Muppets v Sharks’ Small-time retail investors who ploughed money into the oil market thinking they’d spotted an opportunity to make money as prices crashed were left holding the bag, so to speak,...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Artemis, the holding company of France’s Pinault family, bought Christie’s for $1.2bn two decades ago....
...Holdings — but are now showing more hesitancy....
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...“We think it’s likely now that Elliott et al will try to take them to court to force the issue,” he added....
...Flag as Important Tom Perkins dies The pioneer of Silicon Valley’s venture capital industry and, more recently, one of its more controversial and outspoken figures,has died at the age of 84....
...In the FT’s Future of the Food Industry special report, Scheherazade Daneshkhu reports on new methods such as drones for looking after sheep and the use of big data to refine products and reduce waste....
...Maybe we will discover that many managers were smart enough to sell out of Apple, Valeant, Williams et al before their shares tanked....
...Media companies will increasingly become tech companies. At the FT, we want to be in the vanguard of change....
...Ask IWC, Breitling, Montblanc, Bulgari, Gucci, Frédérique Constant et al why they have made “connected” watches this year and they will all say smartwatches are the next big thing....
...set the trend for filching star designers, not to mention British designers, back in the day (with Galliano, McQueen, et al)....
...Last week, holding company Évora even changed its name from Petropar to help better market its brand abroad. In the fluffy world of Huggies and Pampers, Petropar was just not cutting it, it seems....
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
...Velux Group, which is owned by VKR Holding and run mainly by the founder’s family, reported €2.4bn in revenues and €140m in profits in 2011....
..., the contract PC maker Samsung Electronics, the South Korean electronics group Sany Heavy Industry, the Chinese construction equipment company … Entrepreneurship Arm Holdings, the UK chip designer...
...Why would the Chinese, Russians, Brazilians et al make the same mistake when it is very clearly in the public domain?...
...Three companies dominate Canada’s charter and aircraft management market: Skyservice and Chartright, both based in Toronto; and Execaire, a subsidiary of IMP, an industrial group headquartered in Halifax...
...Technology special Billion dollar brains Sailing away with the Nobel Birth of the global mind...
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