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...The announcement “means that he recognises it” and that “is very difficult”, said one old associate. “Rupert has always been clear eyed....
...US private equity firm TA Associates has raised $16.5bn for its latest flagship vehicle, bucking industry-wide fundraising challenges as higher interest rates and falling public valuations cause investors...
...Adding to its woes, US prosecutors last month charged a former employee and two of his associates with insider trading....
...Ambition and success started off as neutral words but now, she says, we associate them with “thrusting, and perhaps ruthless, leadership”....
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...Everton Football Club owner Farhad Moshiri holds the largest stake in Liverpool’s Royal Liver Building, which was put up for sale days after a longtime Russian associate of the British-Iranian businessman...
...Rivals such as DoorDash and UberEats have encroached upon its market share and margins have also shrunk, the FT’s Helen Thomas writes....
...China, he said, “cannot just squeeze the offshore guys, because a lot of China Inc still needs offshore funding as well”....
...Bridgewater Associates and Renaissance Technologies, both considered among the best hedge funds in the world, suffered steep losses....
...Bravo to take QAD Inc private for $2 billion (Reuters)...
...Thomas Zunder, principal research associate of the Future Mobility Group at the University of Newcastle in northern England, notes that there is not enough air space over London to deliver every package...
...It’s so commonly drunk by government officials that many in China associate its popularity as a barometer for corruption....
...Part of the context here is the role of so-called philanthropic capital, where US companies spend excess cash on the kind of things – housing, education and healthcare – that you’d usually associate with...
...Don’t miss this Big Read on the concierge to the 0.1 per cent by the FT’s Tabby Kinder and Daniel Thomas....
...“IEX has created a tremendous brand in a relatively short time,” said Kevin McPartland, head of market structure research at Greenwich Associates, a consultancy....
...1976; Daniel Boorstin, librarian of US Congress, Washington, DC, July 29 1976 Fifth row: Felix Rohatyn, chairman, Municipal Assistance Corporation, New York, April 15 1976; William Paley, chairman, CBS Inc...
...It also highlights the ties between universities and corporate recruitment, as well as the push from banks and asset managers to associate themselves with assets that provide a "social benefit"....
...When a broker-dealer company wins a TRO against a former adviser, this typically means the adviser is barred from benefiting from any client information already taken from the company’s records, says Thomas...
...Model 3 vehicles in the final quarter of 2017, missing the consensus forecast of Wall Street analysts of 5,200 and raising new questions about whether the group can crack the mass car market, writes Daniel Thomas...
...Thomas Toth, a managing director at Wilshire Associates, the consultancy, says the amount of excess capital is “very substantial” and has helped push up prices paid for deals....
...But Mr Gates developed staying power of his own, finding a new patron in the form of Thomas Barrack, a Trump confidante and billionaire fundraiser....
...Dan Churchouse joins as an associate director in the UK wholesale team from Kames Capital....
...It was as if Thomas Piketty, the economist whose book on inequality had been a runaway bestseller, was meting out justice....
...More than a third of shareholders at Thomas Cook, the FTSE 250 travel company, also voted against its bonus programme in February, pressuring the company to cap bonuses for senior employees....
...Bill Black, associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and a former bank regulator, said he is unpersuaded by the “stabilisation” argument presented by Mr Moynihan...
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