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...Bogdanchikov would like you to meet Rosneft, a thoroughly modern, reliable Russian oil company with impeccable management and enormous profit potential. That, at least, is the pitch that Bogdanchikov, Rosneft's president, has been making vigorously to investors over the past few weeks, hoping to lure them into a stock listing in London and Moscow later this month that could raise as much as $11.7 billion, making the company worth up to $80 billion. It seems like a compelling story: Rosneft's oil reserves are vast, its costs are low by international standards, and the fact that it will remain...
Investing guru Warren Buffett -- above right, with Bill and Melinda Gates -- announced last week that he will gradually transfer more than $30 billion of stock in his Berkshire Hathaway firm to the Gates Foundation, which works to improve global health and U.S. education. Each installment must be spent in the year it's given; the $1.5 billion pledge for 2006 will double the foundation's current spending--and boost its already powerful impact...
...weeks ago for PCCW, Hong Kong's largest telecommunications company, might strike some as bizarre. After all, fixed-line phone operators are plagued by low growth, ferocious competition and disruptive Internet technologies, making them hard to love?and PCCW is no exception. In the past six years, its stock price has crashed by 65%; last year, PCCW's consolidated revenue for its telecom operations crawled up by a paltry 1%. But if there's one positive thing to be said for such businesses, it's that they're dependable generators of cash. "Fixed-line companies are effectively like utilities," says...
...toll roads and airports?into fixed-income funds, which are then sold to yield-hungry retail investors. Lately, the company's concept of an infrastructure play has broadened and its pursuit of acquisitions has grown increasingly audacious?earlier this year it mounted a $2.6 billion bid for the London Stock Exchange. That failed, but the bank's ability to turn tired old assets into lucrative investment vehicles has become so well known in financial circles that some have dubbed deals like the proposed PCCW acquisition "Macquisitions." Macquarie "has developed a lot of intellectual capital in this area," says Jack Chemello...
...world, according to Forbes–also announced this week that he will donate $100 million dollars to the Ellison Medical Foundation. That donation was part of an unusual settlement to an insider-trading lawsuit filed by Oracle shareholders after Ellison made $900 million through selling Oracle stock just before its price fell...