Profits at the hedge fund co-founded by the GB News and Spectator owner Sir Paul Marshall plunged by almost two-thirds last year, resulting in significantly reduced payouts for its partners. Marshall Wace, one of London’s most successful hedge funds, has declared profits of £192m in the year to the end of February 2024, a sharp…
Share Squawk Box Asia Christine Li of Knight Frank expects to see an increase in property buyers to the Singapore housing market when SORA rates move below 2.5%. She adds that any additional property cooling measures by the government is likely to be incremental and will not impact first-time buyers. 03:17 2 hours ago Source:…
Bulcamp Drift, Suffolk In 2001, two agricultural barns were refashioned into two homes, with separate entrances, but one connecting internal door. Whitehouse Barns has been run as holiday lets (planning restrictions mean it has to be unoccupied for 45 days a year between January and March) but could form one large, eight-bedroom lateral home. They…
Residential 19th century style residential buildings in historic center of Paris, France. Kolderal | Moment | Getty Images Europe’s real estate sector is poised for further recovery in 2025, as investment activity picks up and growth returns across key market segments, analysts have predicted. A gradual uptick in transactions in 2024 looks set to gain…
Venezuelan authorities have announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of exiled opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who insists he beat President Nicolás Maduro at the polls. Police published on social media a photo of the previously little-known ex-diplomat with the word “wanted” under the image. He fled to Spain in September…
An apparently grieving killer whale who swam more than 1,000 miles (1,600km) pushing the body of her dead newborn has lost another calf and is again carrying the body, a development researchers say is a “devastating” loss for the ailing population. The Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said the orca, known as Tahlequah, or…
CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Noted short seller Hindenburg Research disclosed a bet against Carvana on Thursday, claiming the online used-car retailer’s recent turnaround is a “mirage” that is being propped up by unstable loans and accounting manipulation. The report, called “Carvana: A Father-Son Accounting Grift For The Ages,” centers on Carvana’s practice…
Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel, speaks during The New York Times’ annual DealBook Summit in New York City, Dec. 4, 2024. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Billionaire investor Ken Griffin’s handful of hedge funds at Citadel all posted double-digit returns in 2024, led by its tactical trading strategy. Citadel’s multistrategy Wellington fund,…
FBI now ‘confident’ that suspect acted alone in New Orleans An FBI official addressing media on Thursday said law enforcement is “confident” the suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, acted alone – a reversal since yesterday, when officials said they were looking into the possibility that the suspect, Jabbar, had coordinated with others. “It’s really premature and you’re…
Engineers are assessing the scale of damage to a canal built more than 250 years ago after flood waters caused a dramatic collapse of part of its elevated embankment in Cheshire. The Bridgewater canal, which was previously used to transport coal but is now a leisure waterway, caved in near Dunham Massey, in the first…
