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...John H Buxton London HA6, UK...
...He wants KT&G to appoint Cha Suk-yong, chief executive of leading domestic cosmetics group LG H&H, and Hwang Ou-jin, the former head of Prudential Life Insurance, as outside directors....
...They use stacking technology to improve the bandwidth and performance of graphic processing units (GPUs) in high-speed computers....
...says Mark Johnson, advocacy manager at civil rights group Big Brother Watch....
...Elsewhere in retail we have numbers from Inditex and H&M, the latter being a trading update rather than a results call....
...“The theory of a dovish pivot has been squashed,” said Brian Kennedy, a portfolio manager with Loomis Sayles....
...Blackstone acquired debt manager GSO in 2008, seeding its expansion into credit and insurance-based investments, which now comprise 28 per cent of the group’s $940bn in assets....
...IPO Intel’s self-driving unit Mobileye will start trading on the stock market today under the ticker symbol MBLY....
...Additional reporting by Annie Wong and Rebecca Blandon Text in the video accompanying this story has been amended to correctly reflect the number of deaths linked to Subsys...
...The idea is to give a discount on buying the company’s shares to H&F’s ninth fund and the specialist investors buying into the deal. “It’s enormous,” said one bond fund manager....
...“We’re building what I think of as the new type of peaker plant,” said Cody Hill, LS Power’s vice-president of energy storage. “This is dispatchable capacity that doesn’t have a smokestack.”...
...When demand plunged for new clothes, for instance, many retailers (with notable exceptions, such as H&M and Inditex) acted swiftly to push as much pain as possible downwards....
...KKR has named former Godiva Chocolatier chief Annie Young-Scrivner the new boss of beauty group Wella Company, which the private equity group acquired from Coty....
...Berkshire Hathaway’s railroad unit BNSF named company veteran Kathryn Farmer its new chief. She will replace Carl Ice, who will retire in January after 42 years at the freight network....
...Oyo’s app was downloaded 880,000 times in the first three quarters of last year, according to data provider App Annie. By contrast China’s top travel app, Ctrip, was downloaded 12m times....
...Both divisions will be served by a newly formed Product & Technology unit, led by Stefan Pepe, who recently joined Sotheby’s after 10 years at Amazon....
...Pension trustees must find impact investment managers that spell that part out explicitly. If they do not, it could be a problem....
...During a 2017 takeover battle for Fairfax Media, the Australian publisher, Healy’s firm H&F was facing competition from private equity group TPG....
...Letter in response to this article: Funding LTC has never taken off in Germany / From Bernard H Casey, Social Economic Research, Frankfurt, Germany and London, UK...
...The so-called “H-D Revelation” electric power-train offers a catapult-like 0-60mph time of three seconds, with regenerative braking helping to top up the batteries for a range of 95-146 miles....
...Earnings from its telecoms unit and other businesses helped offset unrealised losses at the $100bn Vision Fund, which has been hit by a soured investment in US office-sharing company WeWork....
...It is bidding for Nexon, a South Korean game developer, in a consortium with China’s Tencent, and has submitted a letter of intent to take over Lotte Group’s three financial units....
...Diane Dietz, chief executive of Rodan + Fields, a direct-sales skincare brand, was CMO of grocer Safeway, and Jeff Jones, who now heads H&R Block, the tax preparation company, held that role at retailer...
...Tony Yates, macroeconomic policy unit research associate at the Resolution Foundation: No....
...If you don’t have experienced staff . . . then really you need management grip — and by that I mean: why don’t we have managers on residential units who stay there and guide and coach staff and motivate...
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