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...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...As Richard Masters, chief executive of the English Premier League, quipped this week, at least England is “confident” of a winner in this one after Manchester United’s underwhelming penalty shootout loss...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Blackstone Group, Starwood Capital, the Canadian pension fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC are among the biggest borrowers on GSE commercial loans...
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...Partners, for only nominal consideration....
...But at the end of the first quarter of this year, TPG Asia V fund, which put most of its money to work from 2009 to 2012, had a return of 2 per cent....
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...“This has the potential to break the paradigm of the sovereign debt world,” says Hans Humes of Greylock Capital Management, a fund that specialises in emerging markets....
..., many of whom don’t want to partner with an oligarch or the state.”...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...al-Assad to step aside, the WSJ reports....
...intensified their efforts to secure a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on President Bashar al-Assad to step aside, the FT reports....
...Alibaba-led group said to prepare Yahoo bid Alibaba Group and Softbank are in advanced talks with Blackstone Group LP and Bain Capital LLC about making a bid for all of Yahoo!...
...Yet Abu Dhabi, the wealthy capital of the United Arab Emirates, is not banking on immunity. Instead, it has been creating its own stress, the FT reports....
...This week he invested $5bn in Bank of America, lending his stamp of approval to an institution struggling to convince investors that it had set enough capital aside to deal with the toxic legacy of mortgages...
...For example, its $17.4bn TPG V fund was valued at less than 100 cents on the dollar at the end of 2010....
...March 2008 Mr Hicks exercises a veto on the sale of 98 per cent of Mr Gillett’s shares to Dubai International Capital (DIC), saying the arrangement was “unworkable”....
...Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, is home to a range of state investment vehicles, including government-controlled companies that invest in energy related assets....
...Schooled at Eton, he studied history at Oxford, where he drove a blue Porsche and partied with future chancellor George Osborne et al as a member of the Bullingdon Club....
...In 2007, when MBIA et al were still considered bullet-proof (at least as far the other rating agencies were concerned), founder Sean Egan projected massive losses for the monoline monoliths – rightly, as...
...Jiansheng Wang has also joined as partner in Actis’s Beijing office, having previously been in charge of the China operations of Cerberus Capital Management. ● Roland Lescure is leaving Groupama Asset Management...
...Yet the business of Oaktree and others such as Apollo Management, Avenue Capital and Centerbridge Partners is not for the faint of heart. It has about as much predictability as Russian roulette....
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