Laura Miller

Maine, New York

Books and Culture Columnist at Slate

Books and culture columnist for Slate. laura dot miller at slate dot com Chatelaine

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After 50 Years, Stephen King Has Finally Found His Great Hero

1 week ago | slate.com | Laura Miller

Skip to the content Books By Name a Stephen King character, without checking a bookshelf or Google. Perhaps Jack Torrance springs to mind, if you also happen to be a blocked writer, or the eponymous Carrie—although, can you remember her last name?
The New Netflix Show From the Writer-Director of The Queen’s Gambit Is Gorgeous, Well Acted, and Stupid

1 week ago | slate.com | Laura Miller

Television By This article contains spoilers for Netflix’s Dept. Q. Thrillers and murder mysteries often get knocked for neglecting character and style in favor of plot, but the opposite is the case with the new Netflix series Dept. Q, based on a series of books by the Danish crime novelist Jussi Adler-Olsen. Created by Scott Frank—whose adaptation of Walter Tevis’ The Queen’s Gambitapplied the same elegant attention to a far superior novel—Dept.
Proto by Laura Spinney is a revelatory history of human language.

2 weeks ago | slate.com | Laura Miller

Books By The most successful version of the most powerful tool humanity has ever created was born in a place where war now rages. That tool is human language, without which we would never have achieved the social organization and transmission of knowledge that have made us masters of the planet.
Fidelity rules three funds failed to provide value to investors

2 weeks ago | investmentweek.co.uk | Laura Miller

The three funds are the £168m Fidelity America, the £89m Fidelity Europe (ex UK) and the £428m Fidelity Japan. About all three, Fidelity said in its report: "This fund has not demonstrated value for investors. The board is reviewing." Each fund failed in the same assessment category, that of investment performance.
Fitch downplays positive turn of US-China tariff de-escalation

3 weeks ago | investmentweek.co.uk | Laura Miller

On Monday (12 May) in Geneva, the Joint Statement on US-China Economic and Trade Meeting suspended the 34% reciprocal rate the US imposed on Chinese imports on 2 April for 90 days, and cancelled the subsequent escalation in the reciprocal rate to 125% it announced on 8-9 April. Analysts at Fitch said the move "appears to be a significant de-escalation", but issued strong caveats.
7IM promotes two to executive committee in growth drive

3 weeks ago | investmentweek.co.uk | Laura Miller

Harriet Massie has been promoted to chief transformation officer. She has been with the firm since 2017 and most recently served as transformation director. At the same time, Chris Phillips, previously chief transformation officer, who joined 7IM in 2019, will move into the newly created role of chief value officer. Both roles take effect from 1 June and report directly to chief executive Dean Proctor.
Tribe Impact Capital acquires private markets investor Snowball

3 weeks ago | investmentweek.co.uk | Laura Miller

As well as its private markets capability, Tribe said Snowball brings with it "a strong cultural alignment". Both are certified B Corps businesses that have "a shared belief in the power of finance as a force for good". Deep Dive: Private markets could be the future of 60/40 portfolios Snowball's acquisition by Tribe will bring scale and diversification to Tribe's impact proposition, as well as give it greater access into the private assets sector.
Artemis reports two funds miss good value for money mark

3 weeks ago | investmentweek.co.uk | Laura Miller

The two funds are the £194m Artemis Global Select and the £159m Artemis Strategic Assets. Artemis determined the funds "delivered value overall (where recent changes have been made, or where further monitoring is needed)" but failed to meet the higher criteria for delivering ‘good value'. The Artemis Strategic Assets fund has not achieved its investment objective over five years and has also underperformed its IA sector peer group, the report said.
Trio of Invesco funds fail to deliver value to investors

3 weeks ago | professionaladviser.com | Laura Miller

Manager's annual assessment found some poor performance Three of Invesco's funds have failed to deliver value to investors last year, according to its latest Assessment of Value report.
Trio of Invesco funds fail to deliver value to investors

3 weeks ago | investmentweek.co.uk | Laura Miller

The three funds are the £452m Invesco European Equity Income fund (UK), £94m Invesco Japanese Equity Advantage (UK) and the £130m UK Companies (UK). For each of these funds, Invesco said: "We have concluded that this fund was unlikely to have delivered value as consistently as we expect. "We will continue to monitor whether changes made are driving increased value.

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