Hints and tips:
...Meta, the earliest mover among the Big Tech groups, has seen its value almost double since detailing its job cuts in November....
...Apollo’s life insurance business gives it a first-mover advantage over rivals trying to catch up via pricey acquisitions of insurance blocks....
...If and when the day comes, the SEC will probably approve several ETFs at once, rather than granting one player a potentially unassailable first-mover advantage....
...“Facebook is scared that if they are first movers and come in with all these safety features around compulsive use, around body image issues and depression, people will say, ‘Wow, Instagram is dangerous....
...But early mover advantage in digital assets could add value longer term. NFT prices may have fallen but the cheapest Bored Ape NFT is still priced at $200,000....
...Amazon had a first-mover advantage. Microsoft boasts existing product sales relationships with large customers. Catching up means Google must spend heavily on data centres, real estate and staff....
...The American brand’s main public face comes from chatty, free emails and scoop-driven news coverage that is about and for Washington’s movers and shakers....
...Until recently, the running assumption has been that whoever is earliest to build a driverless fleet will attain a first-mover advantage wherein every mile driven improves the algorithms, thus enhancing...
Junko Nakagawa becomes chief executive at Nomura
Schroders has appointed Peter Hall as global head of wealth management
Australian asset manager AMP Capital has hired Malcolm Brown as senior principal
...The market-movers of 1896 had solid, descriptive and quietly flag-waving names like Standard Rope & Twine, Pacific Mail Steamship and the North American Company....
APG appoints Ronald Wuijster as chief of its €475bn asset management division
BlackRock has appointed Dirk Schmitz as head of its business in Germany
Fidelity International has hired Hugh Prendergast as global head of product
...“There is a huge first-mover advantage in ETFs,” said Ms Fuhr. “It’s harder for firms that have me-too products to attract assets.” The concentration story is similar elsewhere....
David He to become Vanguard’s chief operating officer for China
Erika Arevuo moves to lead Franklin Templeton institutional marketing
Adrian Orr to become governor of New Zealand central bank
...Japan’s Topix was the biggest mover, adding 1.3 per cent, followed by the S&P/ASX 200 index in Sydney, which was up 0.7 per cent....
France’s financial regulator has appointed Robert Ophèle as chairman
Franklin Templeton has hired Martyn Gilbey as its new UK country head
UBS Asset Management has appointed Suni Harford as head of investments
Manulife Asset Management has appointed Shinichi Yamamoto as chief executive in Japan
Kathryn McDonald has been appointed head of sustainable investing at Axa Investment Managers’ Rosenberg equities team
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