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...Sidley Austin has hired John Godfrey as a partner for its global M&A and private equity group in New York. He joins from Paul Weiss....
...Quinn Emanuel has hired longtime Kirkland & Ellis executive committee leader Richard Godfrey as a partner in Chicago....
...Soon another liar backed up Oates’s story — William Bedloe, “a Bristol-born counterfeiter, swindler, petty thief and jail bird”, writes Stater....
.../ From Michael D Godfrey, Menlo Park, California, US...
...However, his fellow Scot and former oppo Ralph Topping — ex-boss of William Hill — thinks Kenny’s too canny....
...But last August, New York-based fund Dorilton Capital bought Williams Racing, ending decades of family ownership....
...Godfrey Kneller’s streamlined “Hampton Court Beauties” — “Diana de Vere”, “Margaret Cecil” — are identikit as the giant Chinese porcelain vases displayed alongside them....
...RBS was initially told to carve out and sell a chunk of its own business — the so-called Williams & Glyn franchise of 306 branches....
...Even if anyone thought this a good idea at the time, the trio at the top of BCR under Godfrey Cromwell stumbled badly with the first award....
...When I asked Peter Dauthieu of Williams & Humbert, producers of some very fine sherries, why he gave the BFT a miss this year, he said: “My feeling is that it’s more a port-minded event now, when before...
...RBS spent almost £2bn attempting to separate the branches, but it was eventually determined that the “Williams & Glyn” business would be unsustainable as an independent business....
...In a bid to display confidence in the project, Mr Godfrey has said he and his board will invest more than £1.5m between them at launch....
...“I think we still love each other, but it just didn’t fit,” said Mr Godfrey....
...Daniel Godfrey, former head of the UK asset management trade body, has also been clear while launching his fund that he expects investors to hold on for seven years....
...Mr Godfrey rebuffed the suggestion that an industry trade body should not be involved in writing regulation....
...One of his biggest peeves in recent years was a ruckus at the Investment Association, the UK’s asset management trade body, in 2015 over the consumer-led agenda of Daniel Godfrey, its chief executive at...
...Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life, by Peter Godfrey-Smith, William Collins RRP£20/FSG $27 Godfrey-Smith, a philosopher of science and avid diver, explores the lives of cephalopods...
...Mr Godfrey questioned why fund managers could not simply cut the “bundled” higher prices charged on the funds instead of transferring investors....
...I have no doubt they will be successful,” said Daniel Godfrey, former chief executive of the UK’s Investment Association, the trade body for fund managers, who is preparing to launch an investment trust....
...The launch of the fund is likely to be closely watched by Mr Godfrey’s former colleagues at the IA, including M&G and Schroders....
...Others compared abstraction to improvisatory jazz, a link implicit in William T Williams’ acrylic painting “Trane”, a dazzling tribute to John Coltrane....
...Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life, by Peter Godfrey-Smith, William Collins, RRP£20/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$27, 272 pages From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution...
...Daniel Godfrey, the former chairman of the IA who was ousted by unhappy members last year, added: “It costs you 1.5 per cent to get a return of 0.7 per cent....
...It is no coincidence that as part of his fightback against the asset management “system”, Daniel Godfrey — the ousted chief executive of the UK’s asset management trade body — will launch an investment trust...
...Daniel Godfrey, consumer champion and former head of the UK’s trade body for investment managers, agrees....
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