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  • Finance

    BlackRock and other heavyweight investors were more willing to flex their muscles against companies in the past year, setting the…

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    Bloomberg, Centerbridge Partners and Goldman Sachs are funding a new programme to train, mentor and hire students for careers in…

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    The banking sector is facing a junior staff crisis. Wall Street has seen a boom in M&A and surging workloads that…

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    A flurry of M&A activity in the UK since the start of the year — including several deals in the…

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    Jump Trading Group, one of the world’s largest high-frequency trading firms, will launch a unit that executes stock orders for…

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    A sustained period of positive returns during the first half of this year has led to a boom in the revenues…

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    UK investors turned their backs on passive funds in July, favouring actively managed sustainable investment products which chalked up one…

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    Auto makers are speeding up the trend of making their mass-market vehicles nearly to order, one of the many ways…

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    Does Bitcoin have a place in a retirement portfolio? Will including cryptocurrencies hurt or help a retirement nest egg? How,…

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    The numbers: The consumer price index climbed 0.5% in July, the Labor Department said Tuesday. Economists polled by The Wall…

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    With U.S. inflation data on the doorstep, stock futures are mixed headed into Wednesday’s session, as bond yields creep up…

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    US investment bank Citi has required that employees in a number of offices in the US are vaccinated against Covid-19…

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    From farm to bottler to supermarket cooler, a liter of Coca-Cola creates 346 grams of carbon dioxide emissions, the company’s…

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    Retirement requires an enormous amount of planning, affecting not only how much money to put aside for old age but…

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    Louisiana is now leading the U.S. by number of new cases of the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19, while Arkansas has record…

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    When Standard Life Aberdeen announced it was changing it name to Abrdn earlier this year, its rebrand went viral. The new…

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    An unregulated cryptocurrency exchange whose employees said they wanted to be aggressive about trading digital assets, even though their legal…

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    The European Union’s new regulation aimed at preventing “greenwashing” requires fund managers to categorise funds based on their environmental, social…

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    A woman who accused former Apollo Global Management Chief Executive Leon Black of rape and defamation filed an amended complaint…

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    US investment bank JPMorgan will bump up pay for junior sales, trading and research analysts, the latest move in the war…

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    Mining is not a terrain private equity normally digs into. Volatile commodity markets and unpredictable returns, along with high capital…

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    The record-breaking heatwaves, hellish wildfires and biblical floods that have hit the world in recent weeks have suddenly made terrifyingly real…

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    FTSE 100-listed asset manager Abrdn has posted net outflows of £5.6bn, as its chief executive warned of further pandemic-related market…

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    If you would like your investments to help protect the Earth, you might as well go in for the long…

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    Positive hangover from Friday’s blowout jobs data may be fading as investors greet the start of a new week with…

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    It all started with a group of 13 young analysts at Goldman Sachs, who made public an informal survey on…

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    Jefferies will match Goldman Sachs at the top of Wall Street’s pay scale for younger bankers, according to people familiar with the matter,…

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    Among key moves to keep an eye on this week were HSBC’s Orazio Tarda, who will join Credit Suisse as its…

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    Independent investment bank, Houlihan Lokey, has increased entry-level salaries for its investment bankers to $105,000, surpassing many of its larger…

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    The world’s largest asset manager has delayed its return to offices by a month in the US, as plans to…

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    U.S. investors remain bullish, despite rumblings out of China and the spike in delta variant infections. Cloud companies — those…

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    After years of lackluster performance, shares of private-equity firms have hit their stride. In the decade or more since Blackstone Group, KKR, Apollo…

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    As private equity firms set diversity targets for their portfolio companies to get more women in leadership roles, one says…

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    The hedge fund of City investor Crispin Odey has placed a bet against the shares of cinema chain AMC, one…

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    Pension fund experts have shot down ambitious plans outlined by Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak to encourage vast sums of…

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    HSBC joined its rivals, becoming one of the last banks to increase analyst salaries as competition for junior investment bankers…

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    The economy is likely to continue to grow so that the labor market heals and inflation averages above 2% for…

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    With the debate over inflation dominating financial markets as the global economy reopens from the COVID-19 pandemic, investors are turning…

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    Apollo Global Management reported higher second-quarter profit on 4 August, as the value of its private equity portfolio climbed faster…

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    For those bearish on Ark Invest’s innovation-driven stock picks, there might soon be a new ETF that allows investors to bet against…

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    Credit Suisse is set to hike salaries for junior bankers, bringing it in line with the vast majority of its major rivals…

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    Societe Generale’s investment bank jumped by 25% in the second quarter as the French bank’s flagship equities unit rebounded following…

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    Independent investment bank Lazard has increased salaries for junior bankers as smaller firms follow bulge bracket rivals with six-figure starting…

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    The division housing HSBC’s investment bank slumped by 23% in the second quarter, amid a sharp drop in trading revenue…

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    Ill-timed hiring restrictions in 2020 are coming back to bite banks during this year’s unprecedented deal boom — creating a fierce battle…

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    U.S. stocks were back on the rise Tuesday as investors assessed corporate earnings and grappled with concerns over how the…

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    KKR has reported a big jump in second-quarter earnings and hauled in a record amount of new cash from investors, as the value…

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    City investment bank Liberum has hired a senior dealmaker to fill the role exited by Bidhi Bhoma, who was promoted to…

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    Credit Suisse has hired a new global co-head of fintech investment banking as the Swiss bank looks to rebuild its…

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    Semiconductor stocks haven’t risen in a straight line this year, but they have recovered from their last dip in May.…

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