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...video on the remarkable bond’s history: Probably the best account of the bond and its symbolic role in the history of finance is in Money Changes Everything, a tremendous book by Yale finance professor William...
...“Ken Griffin learned much about hedging in the 2008 financial crisis and has an extremely disciplined approach to risk,” said David Williams, founder of outsourced equity trading company Williams Trading...
...Doodles raised $54mn in September as part of a funding round that included 776, the VC firm of Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (perhaps best known as Serena Williams’ husband), and FTX....
...The oil company’s board was more intimidated by a shorter-lived campaign by the $55bn hedge fund DE Shaw....
...FrontWell Capital Partners has hired Aubrie De Sylva as vice-president of its deal originations team....
...Smart reads Bull speed ahead Aggressive bets on disruptive tech companies, with Tesla as its pièce de résistance, has pushed New York-group Ark Investment ahead of Wall Street’s most feared titans....
...De Bendetti gave it a go....
...“We have de-levered our portfolio, reduced our tech exposure meaningfully, and grown our short book,” the fund said....
...A devotee of Japanese food, he used to frequent another LA spot called Matsuhisa, and grew so fond of it that he introduced Robert De Niro (a CAA client, naturally) to its owner: the star and the chef then...
...Smart Reads Selling shells by the Delaware shore The state that has more corporate entities registered than people is considering dropping anonymous LLCs....
...The move prompted a sharp decline in the company’s share price, and the French stock market watchdog, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), examined the manner in which the activist investor unveiled...
...It was also lined up for an equity stake in Williams & Glyn, the banking business that RBS was planning to IPO before the flotation was pulled last year....
...It was later hijacked by William Randolph Hearst to mean exclusion, race purity and isolation. He gushed over Hitler and handed the slogan on to Charles Lindbergh’s campaign....
...Sachin Oza and Stephen Williams both moved to the London-based fund manager from M&G Investments....
...Mr González De Paz joins from BBVA Asset Management, where he was a portfolio manager....
...William Lovette, chief executive of Pilgrim’s Pride, said he would prefer a “negotiated transaction” and urged Hillshire to abandon the agreement with Pinnacle Foods....
...(Reuters) “William Morris Endeavor Entertainment LLC is close to an agreement to buy rival talent and marketing agency IMG Worldwide Inc. for about $2.4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter...
...When the football World Cup kicks off in Brazil in 2014, William O’Brien hopes to have his own office in Rio de Janeiro....
...His net worth is estimated at $125m, according to Bob Williams, chief executive of Burns Entertainment and Sports Marketing. Oakley and Trek did not respond to requests for comments....
...“There was almost a perfect storm for Dewey,” says Tony Williams, a legal-market consultant at Jomati....
...Clad in the kind of crisp, sharp suits that are de rigueur for talent agents, Mr Emanuel and Mr Whitesell outline a rosy outlook for an entertainment industry hit by falling sales of DVDs....
...And there’s a virtuoso split-screen action sequence, a stunt-choreographed tavern fight as elaborate and OTT-suspenseful as a Brian De Palma set piece. It all deteriorates at the end....
...“All you can do is stay focused on your strategy and, if we do that, we will be first to finish the line [in Brazil], regardless of who was first to the starting line,” said William O’Brien, chief executive...
...Since then, the company’s cautious attitude to takeovers has outlasted many rounds of speculation, including rumours that it could buy a controlling stake in De Beers, its diamond-mining affiliate....
...The US group intends to launch the venue in Rio de Janeiro in the fourth quarter of 2012, pending approval from Brazilian regulators....
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