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...M&G Investments’ annual bond forum in London earlier this year featured an unusual presence on the stage: a large colourful statue of an elephant....
...M&G said: “We considered a range of options but as an active asset manager, the only alternative passive M&G fund available was not suitable given it tracks the FTSE All-Share index, which offers significantly...
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...And when your volume is there, I’m going to build the products for you,” Yeung says. He was right....
...I’m told to watch for bears....
...LGIM and M&G also declined to comment. However, one global asset manager said they had “zero concerns” about FTI, adding that the company had “engaged very actively with us” over the allegations....
...Both are floored, but I’m not moving yet....
...That may have led to weak governance standards, hurting Japanese companies’ performance on the ‘G’ element of ESG....
...“It’s very important that people do not mistakenly think that I’m just here to tick a box. I’m here because I’m a very successful executive in this industry and nothing else.”...
...M&G holds a small number of Vectura shares but Somel does not hold either PMI or Vectura in his fund....
...A group of 30 of the world’s largest asset managers, including Fidelity, Legal & General Investment Management, Schroders, UBS Asset Management, M&G, Wellington Management and DWS announced in December that...
...M&G declined to comment....
...M&G chairman Mike Evans has taken a temporary leave of absence from the £339bn asset manager due to a stress-related illness....
...The fact that dealmaking hasn’t let up during lockdown doesn’t help. The past few months were marked by an M&A resurgence....
...Experts, however, have warned that the market won’t reduce emissions in the short term....
...Then we stumbled on a Mayan manuscript with two symbols, G and danger. We knew what this meant: 3G, 4G, Warren G and — in particular — Kenny G were all very dangerous. We just didn’t know in what way....
...In December, M&G suspended its £2.3bn fund after it was unable to sell properties to keep pace with a surge of investor redemptions. The M&G fund remains suspended....
...That AstraZeneca would end up here wasn’t at all clear back in May 2014, writes DD’s Arash Massoudi, who at the time had just moved to London to cover M&A for the FT....
...Now that John Legere, the flamboyant outgoing T-Mobile boss, has cleared almost every regulatory hurdle to his $59bn swansong, we want to take you behind the scenes to a curious moment in M&A history....
...And Berenberg doesn’t like Polypipe....
...On 12.7x 12m FWD PER based on some conservative 2H assumptions, we would argue the shares already look good value and we see significant upside if either M-T demand or execution continue to improve....
...If that doesn’t happen, we will not hesitate to take strong action when necessary to protect the rights of the public.”...
...Off in the distance, a distinct roar is also heard at “charming” little airports from Napa Valley to Nantucket, as pilots deploy the thrust reversers on spanking new G-4s....
...“I haven’t worn it a lot in parliament, funnily enough, because he was a dictator who murdered millions of people, so I’m quite careful. But it’s still a collectors item,” he says....
...We favour markets and sectors where share counts are shrinking via M&A and/or buybacks....
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