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...But some smaller investment managers don’t have sophisticated risk-management processes, and their incentives are just to grow and deploy capital. But is that a systemic risk? I’d say probably not....
...Although the government has committed to increase public investment in research and development funding to £20bn annually by 2024-25, a deadlock over UK involvement in Horizon Europe, an EU-wide research...
...S&P executives tried to negotiate a licensing deal but never seemed to get anywhere. Without an agreement, they’d be buying a house without most of the land on which it was built....
...This article is part of FT Wealth, a section providing in-depth coverage of philanthropy, entrepreneurs, family offices, as well as alternative and impact investment...
...We’d followed the development of the newspaper business and classifieds and the move to digital. We’d studied lots and lots of stuff.”Would he buy a newspaper today? “No....
...Higher private sector investment is essential (a) to raise growth so that the fiscal deficit does not cause debt/GPD ratio to rise unsustainably and (b) to end the ex-ante net private sector investment dearth...
...In the case of the single B sector, the absence of EM&M entails a tightening of 50bp since triple C and single B traded at their narrowest spread in late-April....
...New controls are likely on sensitive US exports to China, Chinese investment in the US and perhaps partnership and licensing agreements in sensitive industries....
...Iran aims eventually to increase oil production to more than 5m b/d and gas to 1.4bn cubic meters a day....
...a sensible default investment choice like a target date fund....
...At city and state level, public authorities see clean tech as part of establishing a secure energy supply, reducing carbon emissions, economic development and job creation....
...In addition, the government has been unable to hold a long-awaited licensing round. Production is static at 2.4m b/d – at most – far below the 4m b/d that Nigeria had hoped to achieve by 2010....
...While output grew by 1m b/d between 2006 and 2010, the IEA forecast an increase of just 0.4m b/d between 2011 and 2015....
...Last December, GT secured $10m in Series B funding from private investors to expand its services and systems. It would appear to be a good investment....
...While Nigeria has reserves of about 37bn barrels of oil, according to unofficial industry figures output has recovered to 2005 levels of 2.5m b/d – far less than the 4m b/d that the government had hoped...
...“More nimble, focused, smaller organisations that represent licensing partners or outsourcing R&D to CROs is a more efficient way for pharma to manage its pipelines,” Mr Meyers said....
...on (a) Liffe and (b) Eurex?”...
...Recognising it had a problem, the government worked with existing players and encouraged competition among new entrants. As a result, Oman’s production once again rose above 800,000 b/d in 2009....
...BP Pakistan’s current net production is about 35,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. Gross oil production is around 10,000 b/d while gas production is approximately 200m standard cubic feet a day....
...Sentec Cambridge www.sentec.co.uk Employees: 35 Marketing manager: B Mann Sentec wins an Innovation Award for the development and commercialisation of water metering equipment....
...The technical services agreement to develop Rumaila was won last year by BP and the Chinese National Petroleum Company. The intention is to boost production from about 1m b/d at present to 2.85m b/d....
...Global oil demand is now thought to have been 84.8m b/d in 2009, a drop of 1.4 per cent from the year before. This year, the IEA expects oil demand to grow by 1.9 per cent to 86.4m b/d....
...has made it the largest producer in the region, with a total output of 400,000 b/d of oil and gas....
...deals under discussion could add 7m b/d to Iraq’s production....
...The competitive ability of an economy rests on its progress in the area of Research and Development (R&D)....
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