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Public pension schemes have sold shares in coal, oil and gas companies but are still funding expansion of the gas industry through infrastructure funds
Bank M&A is back on the agenda, but talk of SMBC buying Jefferies is premature. The two firms are prioritising their multi-stranded alliance and a takeover now would jeopardise it
I don’t need to work, but I’m tempted to go back
Corporate broking relationships endure for decades and build deep roots between both individuals and institutions, enabling banks to win outsized revenues from clients they serve. No wonder that a new crop of banks are expanding their ambitions
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For Marcel Proust, the smell of madeleines unlocked the remembrance of things past. Meeting Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital Management again after many years provokes my own moment of restaurant-related reverie. In Moscow in the spring of 2002, Bill bought me dinner. This jaunt was purely for my entertainment. Bill Browder was and is a serious-minded man and — though highly successful — slightly diffident and certainly not given to ostentatious displays of wealth. Mario’s, and its clientele, were the opposite: it was feeding time at the oligarch zoo and Bill had provided front row seats.
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Almost seven years after predicting that the house of Cazenove would crumble under the force of its joint venture partner JP Morgan, rivals are once again predicting its demise. The difference is that this time they might be on to something, as David Rothnie writes.
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Despite scrapping group profit targets and instigating a hiring freeze, Société Générale says its M&A expansion plan is ahead of schedule. But with hungry US banks looking to steal a march on their eurozone rivals, the real challenge will come when dealflow returns, as David Rothnie reports.
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The Bank of England’s executive director for markets this week raised concerns that investors had been buying contingent capital securities on the assumption that they will never be triggered.
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Morgan Stanley has hired Pierre-Alexis Renaudin as head of EMEA equity-linked origination from Deutsche Bank, in the latest of several changes in equity capital markets teams made over the summer.
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Bank of America executives are hoping that this week’s surprise $5bn investment in the firm by Warren Buffett will finally enable it to draw a line under the torrid time it has experienced in the last few weeks.