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...The two teams have something in common beyond the blue shirts. Both are owned by US institutional investors....
...Blue Owl, Ares, Oak Hill, HPS Investment Partners, Oaktree and Elliott Management were among the investors that agreed to lend the $4.8bn this week....
...The Financial Times last week reported that the pair were discussing plans under which both the northern section of the rail project and its final stretch from Old Oak Common in west London to Euston station...
...Motor car crashes have instead become so common that they are no longer news....
...In 2019, Japan introduced a visa programme that in effect opened the country to tens of thousands of blue-collar workers from overseas....
...WongaVision While the first $100bn (well, almost) Vision Fund drew tens of billions of capital from Gulf sovereign-wealth funds, its $56bn younger sister has no outside investors....
...for, and have become an income stream for another group of investors....
...Wood’s eight-year-old investment management firm is named after the Ark of the Covenant – the chest said to have held the Ten Commandments – which was taken by the Israelites into battle....
...Mr Leiweke said Oak View is fully funding its project without asking for taxpayer subsidies which are common with similar building projects elsewhere in the world....
...US media and telecoms groups have hurtled towards consolidation in recent years to defend their business against one common enemy: Netflix....
...In the evenings, it’s all about wining and dining your investors. It’s a common refrain here that the mood at the conference is a good indicator of just how frothy things are in the market....
...One insight from Dell’s return to the public markets is that finding such common ground may not be so necessary....
...The new valuation would be ten times what Mr Dell’s holding was worth when he took the company private five years ago....
...Angel Oak, an Atlanta, Georgia-based firm, is presently marketing a $329m non-QM deal, easily its biggest to date....
...While the official code name for the deal was Project Oak, Mr Bauersmith had adopted the less flattering “Project Cerafa” — Ceratocystis fagacearum happens to be the fungus that kills oak trees....
...Goldman Sachs and Barclays also each paid tens of millions in recent years over charges of tainted deal work....
...He says that Angel Oak has gone well beyond the basic 5 per cent threshold, owning as much as 10 per cent of its MBS deals at various points. “Trust has to be built with investors,” he says....
...These methods are increasingly common in the mainstream asset management sector....
...Square’s surging price also highlights the increasingly common practice of offering shares at a low price to generate a first-day buzz....
...Eighteen months after the WeWork leak, and just days before the company launches its first WeLive development, I am gazing out of a newly installed floor-to-ceiling window in Old Oak Common, north-west London...
...Mr Powers says: “A common problem for a lot of foreign asset managers is that there is not much appetite for foreign products....
...Another common approach is to avoid the noise of any single company’s observed beta....
...The website, in common with other robo advisers, also offers a “tax harvesting” service....
...Apollo, the private equity group founded by Leon Black, has nurtured an insurance group that has added tens of billions of dollars in permanent capital....
...For the periods in between, you’d have been better off parking your money in an index fund, although at the ten-year horizon, everyone is about equal....
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