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...Or Playa del Silencio, aptly named, where dramatic rock formations encircle a lonely beach....
...The same approach had worked very well the year before, when our portfolio was five short positions....
...“I think you’d have to have been under a rock if you didn’t,” said one. “Literally under a rock.”...
...But Crastes showed little sign of strain, dancing near the front of the stage....
...“An entire new generation of investors may well have come of age never having actually experienced an economic downturn, a protracted market downdraft, or interest rates above rock-bottom levels,” he wrote...
...But as we flew back to our rented two-room apartment in suburban Japan, we realised that living it up and acting with conscience need not be incompatible....
...One creditor called the $16.5bn LBO a “bull-market deal” that made little sense now....
...Next door to the school and Joyce’s cramped family apartment, Umberto Saba, one of Italy’s greatest inter-war poets, ran an antiquarian bookshop, which still exists....
...D1 Capital made money on private companies last year but lost money on public stocks while Whale Rock’s public portfolio has fallen more this year than its private counterpart, according to people with knowledge...
...Among foreign portfolio investors, the enthusiasm for the Chinese stock market of a few years back has turned to dust....
...Chase Coleman has shown little interest in changing his stripes....
...Junk debt-financed takeovers, fuelled by an era of rock-bottom interest rates, are now a more than $4tn market....
...For several weeks, he said, cars would wait outside his apartment building and tail him to work. One weekend, someone tried to break into his firm’s office....
...DD readers are no stranger to big crazy punts on little-known, lossmaking start-ups....
...Instead, she delivers a series of looks, each encapsulating the Hermès codes of luxury, with tiny signatures and motifs borrowed from the 16 métiers that make up the house portfolio....
...That fell away in the 2000s, when the biggest comedies — 30 Rock, Modern Family, Parks and Recreation — were decidedly white....
...Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has also organised her “social change organisation” Emerson Collective as an LLC....
...“They’re rock stars. They’re simply the best at what they do,” said Craig Deitelzweig, chief executive of New York-based Marx Realty....
...The next one is a little easier:A year ago, a buyout fund financed the acquisition of company G by one of its portfolio companies with 100% debt and took out a dividend for itself....
...I watched the shocking video footage in his apartment a few months later, in November last year....
...Over the years the Mardens have amassed an impressive real estate portfolio....
...Then they grew, developed, merged, were deregulated and became banks, and you finish up with Northern Rock.”...
...MDBs are rock-solid financial institutions, with a stellar record of loan repayments due to their unique relationship with borrowers....
...“It’s doing well in some ways, but . . . there is talk that some areas of the CRE market seem to be a little bit frothy,” he said....
...To Systrom, the app is not just a portfolio of pretty photos. He describes it as the “visual pulse of the world”, a “history of the world” and a “visual walkie talkie” to communicate with friends....
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