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...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
...Mr Tucker indicated that economic recovery would come more quickly thanks to recent breakthroughs in vaccine development — although expecting a “V-shaped” recovery remained “beyond stupid”....
...Bridgewater Associates and Renaissance Technologies, both considered among the best hedge funds in the world, suffered steep losses....
...Associates from the time remember him as a fun boss who led a tight-knit group of employees....
...His title was associate, one of the lowest ranks in banking, but his colleagues gave him the unofficial status of “managing associate”, one former banker recalls, after noticing that he often provided answers...
...He is also encouraged by a “V-shaped” recovery in Asia, its largest market, and less dire forecasts for UK consumers....
...Ethan Ilzetzki, associate professor at the LSE: The UK economy will begin its recovery in 2021 but will not return to its pre-pandemic level of GDP until 2022....
...Appearing via video link from a locked down Madrid, Ms Botin said those estimates were based on a “V-shaped” recession — a sharp shock followed by a rapid recovery, but stressed this was only one possible...
...Bankers’ early optimism that the pandemic would manifest as a sharp economic shock followed by an equally rapid recovery — the ubiquitous “V-shaped” recession — has given way to pessimism....
...More importantly, this is likely one of the few areas in the portfolio with any investment market liquidity currently....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...However, the England v France game was cancelled due to Typhoon Hagibis, the most powerful storm to hit the country in decades....
...Thankfully I made a great recovery and we slowly started crawling our way out of this huge hole. I'm just now finding my feet after losing everything....
...A danger of releasing some of the pressure that has held down borrowing costs is that tighter monetary policy chokes off economic recovery....
...The brother traded on the information and also tipped off Salman, who with an associate earned roughly $1.7m in profits....
...The brother traded on the intelligence and tipped Salman, who with an associate reaped roughly $1.7m in profits....
...A recent survey of 104 institutional investors by Greenwich Associates, the consultancy, found that one in five non-users planned to start investing in fixed income ETFs in the coming year, while two-thirds...
...The US government has since taken control of more than $480m that he and his associates had placed in bank accounts in Jersey, France and the UK....
...As pension funds embraced the use of cheap index funds over the last decade, such advantages were pitched as a way for hedge funds to improve portfolios....
...Betting on a US recovery – as Mr Paulson’s aptly named Recovery Fund does – has been one of the most profitable trades around. And not just for Mr Paulson....
...Blackstone has amassed the largest portfolio in the sector with 28,000 homes, having spent $1.8bn on its Invitation Homes unit....
..., making it difficult to participate in the recovery.”...
...Honda is also expected to introduce a redesigned CR-V late next year....
...If 2009 was a year of huge equity returns for hedge fund managers going long on the economic recovery, 2010 has been a year of trading fixed income as the cracks in the bounce-back began to show....
...Portfolio trades made up another 4-5 per cent in both years....
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