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...Warren Buffett has warned Berkshire Hathaway shareholders that his sprawling $905bn conglomerate has virtually “no possibility of eye-popping performance” in the years ahead, laying bare the challenges that...
...Orcel’s total remuneration at UniCredit was €6.7mn last year, including a €4.8mn sign-on bonus, one of the highest packages in Europe and more than double that of his predecessor Jean Pierre Mustier....
...Christopher Rossbach, chief investment officer of longtime Berkshire shareholder J Stern & Co, said investors would have to wait to see whether the executives who have worked side-by-side with the two men...
...The challenges confronting Buffett’s successors The passing of Berkshire Hathaway’s acerbic vice-chair Charlie Munger in November turned investors’ attention towards the company’s prospects without Warren...
...Previewed at GP & J Baker’s Rue du Mail showroom, the collection’s eye-catcher is Front Row, a patchwork-like print originally envisaged as a decor for Kemp’s trendy Tribeca outpost the Warren Street Hotel...
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway surged to a record high this week, helping increase its valuation this year by more than $100bn — the equivalent of Ford and Halliburton combined....
...Mandy Madden Kelley, entrepreneur I would never part with my Ox Chair, originally by Hans J Wegner....
...Pilot, which also operates the Flying J brand, sells fuel, food and merchandise to truckers and provides showers among other services....
...Of what did the 19th-century French general Pierre Bosquet say: “It’s magnificent, but it’s not war; it’s madness”? Which car rental company was advertised for many years by O J Simpson?...
...“There are tremendous opportunities for Berkshire’s businesses to work together,” said Chris Rossbach, chief investment officer at fund manager J Stern & Co....
...For the first time the figure includes the results of truck stop business Pilot Flying J, which Berkshire took majority control of in January....
...J Schatz stoneware Egg birdhouse, $265 Giorgio B rose-gold, diamond, coral and enamel Goccia ring, POA. Qui est Paul?...
...At a workbench in the bright, warm warren of studios, a group of volunteers is sifting through colourful fragments of glass and ceramics, cut to size using “nippers”, for the school’s latest commission....
...Do you remember [Saint Laurent’s partner] Pierre Bergé saying that couture had no future. Well, we have proven the opposite.”...
...Two years later he founded J Rothschild Assurance Group — now St James’s Place, the UK’s largest wealth manager — with Sir Mark Weinberg....
...Warren Buffett offered a full-throated defence of share buybacks in his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday, saying stock purchases by Berkshire and the dozens of publicly traded...
...Berkshire Hathaway chief executive Warren Buffett, 92, Wall Street’s oldest leader, has not yet announced a departure date....
...Voice clip of Bernie Moreno How does Ohio feel about President Donald J Trump? Sonja Hutson Now, with a little help from Democratic party donors, he’s the GOP nominee for Ohio’s Senate seat....
...Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first Letter in response to this article: Salty headline wields a deadly double meaning / From Dr John Warren, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK...
...Job moves Former UniCredit chief executive Jean Pierre Mustier has been appointed chair of indebted French IT services group Atos following the departure of Bertrand Meunier....
...“Berkshire has a strong retail shareholder base and they are much more loyal and willing to hold the stock,” said Christopher Rossbach, chief investment officer of J Stern & Co, a longtime shareholder....
...While French media have cited one of his nicknames as J’Lo, a riff on his shared initials with US pop star Jennifer Lopez, some employees raised less flattering monikers — including “the Supreme Soviet”....
...But the real progenitor of the wheeze is Warren Buffett, the world’s most famous investor. Brookfield did implicit homage to the Sage of Omaha this week....
...Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren, the top proponents of the policy in the Democrat-controlled Senate, said that “in contrast to President [Donald] Trump and Republicans who gave giant corporations $2tn...
...“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...
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