The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

So how do you then go from tax and audit practice to finance and investing? If I’d moved to Hong Kong, I think it would have looked like a fairly self-serving tax trade. So what I mean by that is, first, understand the duration of your funding source. Pension funds have quite long-dated capital.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

We spent the next four years rebuilding, unwinding some of the things that had happened before, trying to make a difference for customers, and ultimately sold it again in May of 2007 to acquire that we did, as you might imagine, a good bit more reversed due diligence on in that process. It was a wild ride. David Gardner: Wow.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I was having lunch with Jeremy in the summer of 2007, just after the Bear Stearns hedge fund started blowing up. I think the Americans going to be grateful that they didn’t do that much building in the last few years because otherwise, we would really have a replay of 2007 and ’08.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

Are most people better off in an index fund than playing with an active manager, be it mutual fund or high fee hedge funds? SEIDES: John Yeah, I said back then, the bet started in 2007 and I say today, being in the market and investing in hedge funds is completely apples and oranges. This is the summer of 2007.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

The company is still in talks with its shareholders about raising as much as £1 billion in fresh funds following a £500 million injection agreed last year. Its largest shareholder is Canadian pension fund Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (Omers), which holds a nearly 32 per cent stake. billion in Canadian funds.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

No pension fund wants to invest in private companies that abuse immigrant children. Independent Clinical Services, a company owned by Blackstone, was founded to have evaded £3 million in taxes in 2012 alone, the letter said. In 2007, Taylor won the $1.5M Mr. Taylor’s previous honors include the 2015 John W.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 18, 2023

Business Wire reports that Norway's sovereign fund tops global transparency ranking: TORONTO — Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, Government Pension Fund Global, has topped the list of the most transparent funds according to the Global Pension Transparency Benchmark’s 2023 findings.

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