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...“If you have $50mn in liquid assets on your balance sheet, people don’t think you’re going out of business,” he told reporters in September at his Salt financial conference in New York....
...“You could argue that, since shorting is such a challenging sub-strategy, keeping things long-biased and having a concentrated portfolio of high-quality positions has been the way to go,” Amiee said....
...Notes due 2022, (ii) US$1,000,000,000 8.500 per cent. Notes due 2024 and (iii) US$1,250,000,000 8.970 per cent. Amortising Notes due 2027....
..., rather than actually owning the assets themselves, as a physically replicated ETF does....
...That’s more than $1tn of notional short exposure to Treasury futures for hedge funds, with the mirror image being a very long asset management industry....
...Among the latter, the Rolex Yacht-Master is perhaps the longest-standing, having been introduced more than 30 years ago and since been made available in steel, gold, bimetal and, as the Yacht-Master II,...
...Although the ETFs will use the 21Shares and Ark brands, those two firms will function as the funds’ subadviser and sub-subadviser, respectively....
...UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt said he would reverse Mifid II regulations, which ban stockbrokers from wrapping investment research costs up with the commissions clients pay for trading....
...We’ll be back on December 27 with a special year-end edition of FT Asset Management, Harriet...
...Bridgewater offers different flavours of its strategy and we don’t know how much of its estimated $150bn of assets under management are in Pure Alpha, the more leveraged Pure Alpha II, its risk parity funds...
...Head of weather Nicholas Klingaman, formerly at the UK’s National Centre for Atmospheric Science, specialises in “sub-seasonal” forecasts....
...Carvana was built out of DriveTime, an Arizona used-car business owned by Ernie Garcia II, and pitched itself as the digital disrupter of anachronistic used-vehicle dealerships....
...The two men earlier this year also founded and co-hosted Crypto Bahamas, a digital assets conference....
...SkyBridge has historically invested in hedge funds, but Scaramucci pivoted to cryptocurrencies as he became a public proponent of digital assets....
...in traditional assets decline....
...base, rather than protect the reported income statement from wild asset swings....
...These institutional investors had typically divided their assets between stocks and bonds....
...Although it has an under-appreciated active side — mostly sub-advised by the likes of Baillie Gifford, Wellington and PRIMECAP — Vanguard doesn’t really care what you invest in....
...The app store forces developers to treat their software in a sub-par way to give customers a sub-par experience to charge uncompetitive handling and processing fees to inflate the price of digital goods....
...Race Capital II, LP . . . Lifelike Capital [ridiculously minimalist website award winner] . . . ....
...Under dos Santos, partnerships with Dino’s Cochan Holdings LLC helped Trafigura dominate the supply of petroleum products in Angola, generating bumper profits that supported the Swiss group’s transformation...
...One of our great cultural and social assets is diminishing before our eyes. Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...The 2008 financial crisis had left the balance sheets of western financial groups poisoned by sub-prime assets, forcing them to ring fence these toxic assets in “bad banks”....
...That and the performance decline had shrunk overall assets under management to approximately $7bn at year end....
...The cleaners who came for King Leopold II in Brussels this July knew what to do....
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