Hints and tips:
...“Simply by virtue of what they are selling, they are going to be subject to a lot of opinion, good or bad,” says Siegel. “The company needs to figure out who they want to be and follow that path.”...
...Russian-speaker Ravitch has made a virtue out of employing patience in complex situations....
...However, he added at the time: “Whatever the virtues are of that product, which I think are pretty nebulous, will become very different in a world of competitive exchanges and competitive pricing by tier-one...
...In October last year Ken Griffin derided cryptocurrencies and what he described as their “pretty nebulous” virtues....
...break-up Naturally cautious, Mr Pichai, 48, has the sort of non-confrontational style that makes him well suited to the job at hand — a contrast to Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who made a virtue...
...The virtue of these prompts was they generated participation and, arguably, overcame the “responder bias” that gave a loudspeaker to negative voices....
...“By virtue of the exclusion of the competition, consumers are faced with many choices they’ve never heard of,” he said....
...Yet history is full of examples of how technology’s virtues aren’t guaranteed. Internal combustion engines allowed people to travel beyond their own areas but also caused more accidents....
...Hypocrisy is a tribute paid to virtue. That is the cynical response to News Corp’s complaints over Google’s online media dominance....
...Carlos Abadi is managing director of DecisionBoundaries, LLC, a New York-based international financial advisory firm....
...Alphabet, by virtue of its clear corporate structure, might seem particularly easy to break up if current political discourse bubbles to boiling point....
...The US may lack such a consistent patient record but it has the potential to deliver a similar approach, by virtue of its investment in data. Scandinavia does too....
...For example, one cannot delete information on blockchain, which is a virtue of the technology for many users but will make it difficult to implement the right to be forgotten....
...In the activist playbook, patience is not a virtue....
...Those trumpeting the virtues of a data-led systems talk incessantly of the savings to be made from cutting humans out of the picture and replacing them with algorithms....
...“By virtue of CME Group, CBOE and even ICE’s presence, there has been a concentration more than a dispersion of activity in Chicago,” says Craig Donohue, chief executive of Chicago-based Options Clearing...
...The format’s main virtue was that it could be controlled: if people were given digital access to the music they wanted, then they would pay for it....
...Mr Arnott, chairman and chief executive of Research Affiliates, and many of his peers in the asset management industry had previously been extolling the virtues of smart beta — which acts as a halfway house...
...Photographs: Aaron Fallon; Vincent Girier Dufournier; Richard Green Gallery, London; Sebastian Izzard Asian Art LLC gallery New York...
...His career has been buttressed by traditional virtues of discretion and client service and a close relationship with the Schröder family, which controls 48 per cent of the company....
...A few themes jump out of this listing: the power of novelty, the shift towards China, the benefits of patience and the virtues of capital efficiency....
Shareholders should prepare for dividend cuts but capital with staying power may win out
...Investors are divided about the virtues of such a long lock-up. Hanging on to lucrative investments longer is one of the more powerful arguments of proponents of permanent capital models....
...The borrower’s home bank may also have a US affiliate that will look more favourably on a loan by virtue of the broader relationship....
...Technology and big data are what enable that,” says Joshua Rand of Petra Partners LLC....
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