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...In the summer of 1991, as he tells it, Warren Buffett was in trouble....
...Amanda Blanc, chief executive of insurer Aviva, and Warren East, the former head of Rolls-Royce, were non-executive directors, as was the head of Pearson, Andy Bird, and Simon Thompson, of Royal Mail, who...
...Tracey Camilleri, co-founder of consultancy Thompson Harrison, works with a lot of corporate leaders. I asked her what qualities she observes in a great deputy. “All leaders are incomplete....
...Our Best of Warren Buffett coverage to start: The Oracle of Omaha laid bare the challenge for his successors in his annual letter this weekend: they have little chance of matching his “eye-popping performance...
...In Yuxinzhuang village, a warren of narrow streets on Beijing’s outskirts known for its vibrant community of migrant workers, Zhou wolfs down noodles in a tiny Muslim restaurant....
...rana.foroohar@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Shift from pay to corporate profit is not what it seems / From Andy Thompson, Worcester Park, Surrey, UK...
...Job moves Sir Jon Thompson, head of the UK’s Financial Reporting Council, is in the running to become chair of the High Speed 2 rail project....
...“Suggestions that trustees should favour UK opportunities ... get short shrift from me,” said Andrew Warwick-Thompson of Capital Cranfield....
...Tax equity investors — mainly big banks, but also companies ranging from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to the Swiss chocolatier Nestlé — can use the capital they put into renewables to offset their...
...The law firm Dechert has appointed Mark Thompson as a private equity partner in its London office. He joins from Kirkland & Ellis....
...We can discount Microsoft’s John Thompson, who will have exceeded nine years on the board in two weeks....
...Royal Mail appointed former Ocado executive Simon Thompson as its new UK chief....
...Elizabeth Warren has become a frontrunner among Democratic presidential contenders, in part by emphasising her ordinary upbringing and struggles as a single parent as well as her progressive agenda....
...“I remember him knee-deep in drawings in his room while he worked on the illustrations for Hunter S Thompson’s novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” Hers was a unique kind of literary bohemia....
...Ever the contrarian, Sorrell dismisses the idea, but then embarks on an anecdote of how he almost did sell to Warren Buffett in 2012....
...This coronavirus crisis is not of our making, says Warren East, the chief executive who has spent five years modernising the company....
...Yvo van der Pol and Robin Diener join from Goldman Sachs along with Alastair Warren from M&G Investments....
...Kirsten Thompson Partner, Dentons As a technology and then privacy lawyer, Kirsten Thompson recognised the importance of data early on....
...Investors expect [companies] to operate sustainably . . . company reports and accounts are essential to understanding how the corporate world is responding to the challenge of climate change,” said Jon Thompson...
...He is sometimes known as Britain’s answer to Warren Buffett for his commitment to a small selection of stocks and his buy-and-hold approach — a comparison formerly made about Mr Woodford....
...Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and other US senators have written to investment groups to urge them to disclose how they manage investments exposed to tropical deforestation linked to palm oil....
...And then there is Warren Buffett....
...Letter in response to this article: Tax rule idea is hostile to traditional methods of pay / From Andy Thompson, Surrey, UK...
...Mr Sanders has fallen as Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren has risen to 12 per cent, and in some polls overtaken him....
...The score at this early afternoon performance was played by musicians from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and conducted by the suite’s Canadian composer, John Warren....
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