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...They’ll talk about “harvesting illiquidity premiums” til the cows come home of course, but they’re actually willing to pony up for the lack of reported volatility....
...Confidence building Apart from Wuhan, Baidu and a clutch of domestic rivals, including Pony.ai and AutoX, have established a series of testing zones in cities across China....
...Here you really can be Porn Dog, Honeybee or Show Pony. Getting naked is the ultimate shedding of normcore....
...Tencent, the $730bn social networking and gaming giant, and Pony Ma, its 49-year-old chief executive, have avoided significant public censure at a time when Alibaba, Ant Group and Meituan have faced serious...
...“Google's a one-trick pony,” says Mr Lowe. “The only way he would even be able to dabble in these fields is the ill-gotten gains of dominating and exploiting search.”...
...But private equity firms can only raise fresh capital from pensions and endowments if they pony up either their own firm’s balance sheet cash or that of individual partners....
...And as share prices fall, companies would have to pony up more stock to provide the same compensation, and further dilute the shareholder base....
...Pony Ma, Tencent chairman and chief executive, has conceded as much....
...“If you want to be an evergreen product, you have to keep supporting it and keep the content fresh,” Mr Berberian says. “The challenge is not to be a one trick pony.”...
...Gravity will be Fitness First’s show pony as it tries to expand into the “upper premium” gym sector, a test bed for new ideas it can roll out across its network, and an attempt to expand into health services...
...Jamie Selway, head of liquidity management at brokerage ITG, says: “Firms like Getco were very much one-trick ponies with highly visible strategies that relied on incredibly high volumes to bring in incredibly...
...“A lot of these companies are one-trick ponies and their valuation is based on a dream that they can one day be more than that,” she said....
...As Mr Haynes rightly says in our interview, it’s not enough to be a “one-trick pony” offering cash equities trading....
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...In addition, it was Mr Zhu’s connections that made the company so valuable. “It is a one-trick pony,” the partner looking at CICC on behalf of the second private equity firm says....
...The problem with being a one-trick pony is that you have to get the trick right every time. InBev, cost-cutter extraordinaire, has just let down its audience....
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