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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Jonathan Kandell
12 hours agoMichelle Mone spent 25 years building her business empire and public profile through the British media. A brilliant self-publicist, she was regularly described as one of the UK's most successful businesswomen. She was the plucky underdog who, through sheer grit and a knack for a good headline, pushed …
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Jonathan Kandell
He was best-known for "The Sorrow and the Pity," a landmark film that debunked ideas of vast French resistance to the Nazi occupation. Marcel Ophuls, the German-born filmmaker whose powerful documentary "The Sorrow and the Pity" exploded the myth of widespread French resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II, has died. He was 97. Mr. Ophuls died on Saturday, Agence France-Presse news agency reported on Monday, citing a statement from his grandson Andreas-Benjamin Seyfert.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Jonathan Kandell
A Peruvian-born international star, he made a specialty of roles in operas by Donizetti, Rossini and Mozart, becoming one of their pre-eminent interpreters. Luigi Alva, the Peruvian tenor who was a pre-eminent interpreter of Mozart and Rossini roles that highlighted his light-lyric voice, elegant phrasing and subtle acting during a three-decade career on the world's opera stages, died on Thursday at his home in Barlassina, Italy, north of Milan. He was 98.
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4 weeks ago | 
razon.com.mx | Jonathan Kandell
Fue alrededor del año 1280 cuando los aztecas se introdujeron en Chapultepec e iniciaron la dificultosa transición de una existencia de cazadores y recolectores a un modo de vida agrícola sedentario. Chapultepec —nombre que se traduce como “Colina de los saltamontes”— estaba infestada de insectos, pero su tierra en declive era fértil y estaba regada por manantiales subterráneos.
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1 month ago | 
institutionalinvestor.com | Jonathan Kandell |John Crabb |Michelle Celarier
In their more than six decades, real estate investment trusts have reached far beyond traditional deals and come up with innovative angles on such unlikely businesses as roulette tables and marijuana. In the mid-2010s, Las Vegas casinos like MGM Resorts International sold their real estate to REITs while retaining operation of the casinos themselves. That allowed them to focus on gambling as the REITs enjoyed stable rental income.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
institutionalinvestor.com | Jonathan Kandell |James Comtois
Nowadays, the likeliest path to the top job at the biggest alternative asset managers is to demonstrate prescience about a new business sector and turn it into the firm’s most promising activity. Think of Marc Rowan reorienting Apollo Global Management toward insurance, Michael Arougheti building Ares Management into a private credit giant, and Blackstone heir apparent Jonathan Gray raking in record-breaking profits from innovative strategies in real estate.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Jonathan Kandell
Paul Plishka, an American singer acclaimed for his sonorous, liquid bass tones and near-perfect diction during a career at the Metropolitan Opera that spanned a half-century, died on Monday in Wilmington, N.C. He was 83. His death was confirmed by his wife, Sharon Thomas, who did not cite a cause or specify where in Wilmington he died.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
institutionalinvestor.com | James Comtois |Michael Thrasher |Jonathan Kandell
Global investors continue to pour the majority of their capital into North American assets, according to new research from WTW’s Thinking Ahead Institute. Results of the institute’s annual survey showed that, of the $128 trillion in assets managed by the world’s 500 largest managers as of Dec. 31, 2023, 60.8 percent of that total AUM ($77.8 trillion) was in North America—an uptick of 15 percent from the year before.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
institutionalinvestor.com | Michael Thrasher |Jonathan Kandell |Julie Segal
The takeaway from new Morningstar research is unsurprising: In asset management, the biggest firms keep getting bigger. But the research also has insights into some notable differences between the behemoth investment companies, as well as what’s happening at more than 100 smaller firms. “The shape of the asset-management industry is ever morphing. Things happen — perhaps a market event, regulatory development, or new investor preference — and asset managers respond.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
institutionalinvestor.com | Jonathan Kandell
Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman and Brookfield’s Bruce Flatt, chief executives of the two largest alternative asset managers, rarely show up at the same social events. But here they were, halfway across the world, in India’s oil refinery port of Jamnagar to spend a weekend in March attending the prenuptial celebrations of the youngest son and future daughter-in-law of Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s wealthiest magnate. Rihanna belted out a blend of pop, R&B and reggae.
