21 h. ago "I'm going to an Abu Dhabi hedge fund because I don't want to be mugged in London"

"I'm going to an Abu Dhabi hedge fund because I don't want to be mugged in London"  eFinancialCareers

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4 d. ago Jefferies hired a hedge fund executive in France and moved him to London

Jefferies hired a hedge fund executive in France and moved him to London  eFinancialCareers

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4 d. ago Rising inequality is turning US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns

Ray Dalio says business leaders scared to criticise Donald Trump as he warns of debt-induced crisis for the economyOne of the world’s most prominent hedge fund billionaires has warned that rising inequality is turning the US into an autocratic state and condemned business leaders for failing to speak out against Donald Trump’s policies.Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, said “gaps in wealth” and a collapse in trust were driving “more extreme” policies in the US. Continue reading...

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1 week ago "I'm earning £500k at a London hedge fund & am concerned about my future"

"I'm earning £500k at a London hedge fund & am concerned about my future"  eFinancialCareers

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2 w. ago Addleshaw Goddard: Legal giant with 300 Scottish staff sees revenues jump 11%

“This has been another strong year for the firm internationally and our Scottish offices have contributed significantly to these results” – Alan Shanks

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2 w. ago Hedge fund tycoon buys Isle of Rona as last two inhabitants set to leave

Daniel Luhde-Thompson, along with his wife Cressida Pollock, former CEO of English National Opera, have taken over the Isle of Rona, near Skye, with its two remaining inhabitants set to leave.

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2 w. ago BHP demands answers over hedge fund’s role in law firm behind £36bn claim

Mining company says backer of Brazil dam class action suit appears to be controlling the claimant law firm

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3 w. ago Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent fails to divest his financial holdings and hit with watchdog warning

Bessent, a former hedge fund manager, reportedly has a net worth of around $600 million

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3 w. ago London gets what it asked for with Dan Loeb’s hedge fund fight

London gets what it asked for with Dan Loeb’s hedge fund fight  Financial Times

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4 w. ago Hedge Fund Point72 paid 300+ staff £650k on average in London

Hedge Fund Point72 paid 300+ staff £650k on average in London  eFinancialCareers

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last month Great Eastern Hotel by Ruchir Joshi review – a panoramic view of India in flux

The political and emotional journey of a young communist revolutionary is brought sensuously to life, in a magnificent epic that took 25 years to writeThe observation by architect Louis Kahn that you “can only really see a building once the building becomes a ruin” runs through this book like the Hooghly river through India’s former capital. There’s no better Indian ruin than Kolkata, a city that still clings to the centrality of its role in the 19th-century intellectual renaissance that buttressed the case for Indian self-rule. The adage back then was that “what Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow”.Great Eastern Hotel, the second novel from the author of The Last Jet-Engine Laugh, is 920 pages and well over 300,000 words long. The staff of your local Waterstones will kindly describe it as “an undertaking”. It is set in and around the still-standing, now eye-wateringly expensive Great Eastern Hotel, which is, as the book points out, a model for the city itself: a place t...

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