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...Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk seeks to tell a much bigger story than the one outlined above....
...The government wants schemes to reduce investment risk....
...Without giving details, Tuhin Kanta Pandey, secretary of the department of investment and public asset management (DIPAM), tweeted on June 20 that he had received “multiple” expressions of interest for the...
...Almost six years before, Warrior’s predecessor company Walter Energy had filed for bankruptcy protection, citing falling coal prices and high operating costs....
...Its author is Sachin Khajuria, a veteran of Apollo Global Management, who now runs his own private investment firm....
...Governments worldwide are pouring stimulus funds into building makeovers in the name of energy efficiency....
...Abel spent much of his time making the case for Berkshire’s renewable energy investments and why the company did not need to adopt a shareholder proposal that would require it to report on measures its companies...
...“Most companies are using cash to buy back stock and make acquisitions, rather than invest in new facilities,” said Walter Price, a tech investment manager at Allianz....
...The Big Three are on course to control 40 per cent of the votes in American corporations in a couple of decades....
...They have created a system in which, in the words of economists Walter Adams and James Brock, “managerial energies [are] devoted to sterile paper entrepreneurialism and the quick growth-through-merger game...
...“We need to improve the executive pipeline,” says Sacha Sadan, director of corporate governance at Legal & General Investment Management....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...For energy, the figure was only slightly lower, at 77 per cent....
...Corporation, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, to pay €12.25bn to acquire pan-European logistic group Logicor from Blackstone....
...Other poor investments in TPG V include Washington Mutual, and the former TXU, now renamed Energy Future Holdings, the largest buyout ever, which filed for bankruptcy protection in April....
...It’s as if corporate America is singing from a new hymnal – and it’s Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of Steve Jobs....
...Forming part of the financial services sector, it might be assumed that accountants earn the vast fortunes associated with investment bankers....
...A Yes victory in September would mean a “quantum leap in uncertainty” for investors, says Bill O’Neill, economist and head of the UK investment office at UBS Wealth Management....
...Walter’s article: In May 1991, AT&T acquired computer manufacturer NCR Corporation for $110 per share in what was to that date the largest-ever computer industry merger....
...Analysts say investment banks have had a torrid third quarter, particularly in their fixed-income businesses....
...Justin Walters, co-founder of Bespoke Investment Group, said: “[It is] often called the dog days of August but after the last several years, we were beginning to think this was just another old wives’ tale...
...Investors hoping for a respite from losses in May are in for further disappointment if stocks follow historical patterns, according to Justin Walters at Bespoke Investment Group....
...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...
...Robert Walters , the recruitment company, gained 2.8 per cent to 245¾p after its 2011 results met market expectations....
...Despite the deals that were cut with Néstor Kirchner, investment was very low....
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