Hints and tips:
...Warren Buffett’s sister reckons “pundits should always be ignored”....
...They have been replaced with value investors, including money managers Christopher Davis and Wally Weitz....
...New Balance chair Jim Davis gave $2.5mn, private investment banker Warren Stephens and venture capitalist Tim Draper each gave more than $2mn, and Jane Street co-founder Rob Granieri contributed $1mn....
...The entrepreneur behind this is Charles Li — whose career has included stints as a New York-based lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell, president of Merrill Lynch China, chair of JPMorgan China and most recently...
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, which has made billions off a $230mn bet in the Chinese group back in 2008, has been selling down its holding since 2022....
...Triple-A CMBS, which have not seen their spreads blow out, make up 87 per cent of the market, according to Ned Davis Research....
...Former chair Sir Ian Davis was a non-executive at the oil group. Iain Conn, a former head of BP’s downstream division, was also on the board of Rolls-Royce....
...“If Warren thinks the deal is OK, the deal is OK,” Buffett said of the board’s thinking, as he held court on Saturday at a meeting that reminded shareholders that Berkshire remains very much the Warren show...
...Bankers across Wall Street have sought legal advice from law firms including Davis Polk on how the Treasury might treat the accelerated schemes, according to several people briefed on the discussions....
...The performance begins with “Sweet Bread”, an easy-going mix of twisty theme and modal jazz written by vibraphone player Warren Wolf....
...Frew, 63, will join Rolls-Royce on July 1 as non-executive director and will succeed Sir Ian Davis in October. Davis will retire after nearly nine years as chair....
...Job moves Jennifer Davis, head of Goldman Sachs’ retail investment banking unit, is leaving to join Bain Capital’s private equity group, per Bloomberg....
...Frew will join Rolls-Royce at a critical juncture and, together with chief executive Warren East, faces the task of steering the group back to financial health....
...Vice-president Kamala Harris and Senator Elizabeth Warren have also campaigned for him....
...It’s a mystery then why Davis and Warren East, his chief executive since 2015, held off until October to apply a balance sheet fix....
...Warren Buffett’s daughter Susan and investment firm manager Christopher Davis were elected to the board at Berkshire Hathaway after a resolution to increase the size of its board to 15....
...Had Biden not clinched the Democratic nomination, it would have been Bernie Sanders (79), though Elizabeth Warren (71) also ran gamely....
...Purdue’s law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell, warned of a “race to the courthouse” and “ruinous” litigation without a court-approved global settlement....
...I find myself reminded of that moment in the film All About Eve when Bette Davis turns to her guests and presents her forecast for the evening to come....
...Newsom has been backed by high-profile Democrats including US senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Georgia voting rights campaigner Stacey Abrams....
...She was previously counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Private equity group Inflexion has appointed Isabelle Pagnotta as a partner on its services team....
...Warren Davis Haddonfield, NJ, US...
...Ken Lebrun, a partner at law firm Davis Polk in Tokyo, said: “Doing deals is their business. They are always readjusting their portfolio and they are able to do that without too much emotional baggage....
...Those anxieties deepened after Warren Buffett, the Gateses’ close friend who has pledged the bulk of his fortune to the foundation, announced late last month that he was resigning as its third trustee....
...Chris Davis of Davis Funds has long argued that investors have underestimated the improvement in banks’ durability since the 2008-09 financial crisis....
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