Hints and tips:
...Some would probably argue that more information is not the same as better information . . . but c’mon....
...But notice that in the more recent statement, Berkshire is making a comparison to “the average American corporation,” not the S&P 500....
...Looks like S&P Ratings doesn’t find “attestations” especially convincing, either....
...The Soviet cosmonauts initially used pencils — before purchasing Paul C Fisher’s pens themselves in 1969....
...The Financial Times revealed that Goldman Sachs has used a $2.5bn private equity fund set up with sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation to buy a series of sensitive US and UK companies....
...The Hinkley Point C project is likely to exceed the revised £32.7bn estimate EDF put on it earlier this year after its Chinese partner CGN halted payments to cover mounting cost overruns....
...In 1955, it was bought out by Hoving Corporation, owners of department store chain Bonwit Teller, which boosted Tiffany’s fortunes into the mid-20th century....
...The Development Finance Corporation (DFC) could support resilient global supply chains while supporting economic development....
...S&P Global Ratings downgraded Evergrande this month to triple C, deeper into speculative grade territory, as it noted a recent rise in contractor disputes....
...Their client list includes The Conran Shop, P Joseph, Locke Hotels and Ducie Street Warehouse in Manchester....
...Chris Dixon Yeah, well, I think, I mean, I think, I think corporations have their own logic....
...“One of them has to be the sense that hourly workers and others can’t be secure about their futures, while the C-suite is doing extremely well.”...
...Anyway, here are names and links — we’ll let you make your own mind up: Liquid 2 Venture Fund III L.P . . . . Lake Nona Fund / LN Sports & Health Tech Fund I, LP . . ....
...Large corporations, large wealth firms and large foundations. What’s the market opportunity?...
...The great hedge fund debate Back in 2008 Warren Buffett made a $1m bet that the S&P 500 index would outperform a basket of hedge funds over the course of a decade....
...Paul told me there had been a substantial 35 per cent year-on-year increase in companies disclosing under the CDP framework, who now number more than 13,000, including the majority of big corporations in...
...In the fourth-quarter earnings calls for 2020, more than one in four S&P 500 companies discussed environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives....
...When women do reach the C-suite in Germany, it is sometimes to resolve problems left by male predecessors....
...As early as 2015, Continental acquired the automotive business of Finnish software company Elektrobit Corporation, for €600m, and later bought Israeli cyber security company Argus for $430m in a 2017 deal...
...Over the past three months, sales of bonds by triple C rated companies have run at a record pace, Melentyev said....
...By 1993, Wired magazine was already running the headline “Cyberpunk R.I.P”....
...S&P Global, one of the big three rating agencies, considers triple C issuers to be “vulnerable”, and dependent on “favourable” conditions to keep paying their debts....
...They illustrate their argument by comparing the paths to success of the richest people in Mexico and the USA (p. 39)....
...It may also be able to provide early warning signals of a fourth P: pandemics....
...By 2022, under normalized conditions we expect this year’s incremental land investment to fuel growth, meaning we forecast a return to c.14,000 units p.a by 2022. 12 sites worth £136m have already been agreed...
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