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...small shop on the outskirts of town and then Coles comes along. Would the government protect me?" Observers foresee a day of reckoning brought about by agricultural consolidation. Foreign investors, such as major hedge funds, are picking up prime farm land (and paying good prices), the banker says, because the returns from it are traditionally higher than from the share market...
Like the last two U.S. presidential elections, the Nov. 5 Nicaraguan presidential election may feature a Harvard Business School graduate as one of its leading contenders. Liberal Party candidate Eduardo R. Montealegre, a former banker who graduated from the Business School in 1980, ranked third with 17.3 percent of the vote in a University of Central America poll released yesterday. Left-wing Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega led the poll with 37.5 percent of the vote, and Jose Rizo of the ruling Liberal Party ranked second with 20.1 percent. A September Zogby International poll ranked Montealegre in second place with...
...conundrums for Bordeaux is its renown. The region's top wines command investment-banker prices because of their quality and limited supply. These makers have no interest in being associated--even remotely--with down-market plonk. Why would they when Château Cheval Blanc and Château Lafite-Rothschild, for example, are currently selling their 2005 vintage for about $700 a bottle? But producers in the middle aren't happy. They worry that the massive price increases pushed through by the likes of Château Pontet-Canet will give consumers the message that all Bordeaux are expensive. "What does...
...dated an investment banker this summer in Los Angeles, and it was the best and worst decision of my life. At first, I found David’s (not his real name) Republicanism endearing and thought I could reform his soul. And despite his corporate job (being an “Excel monkey,†as he called it), I found our conversations witty enough to stomach dating a yuppie working...
...Taylor, a banker and timber magnate, is one of Congress' wealthiest members. and the Democrats are also making an issue of his finances. In his 2005 financial disclosure statement, he listed more than $50 million in stock in Asheville-based Financial Guaranty Corp., a Taylor-owned holding corporation, and between $1 million and $5 million in savings accounts at Blue Ridge Savings, the Asheville-based bank he founded and still chairs; a land and timber partnership in Haywood County; and shares of the Russia-based Bank of Inanovo...