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…e have developed deep expertise in the infrastructure sector and sought secure, well-managed assets, generating stable, long-term returns for investors. We have done so by initiating and backing two experienced and highly-respected managers in the industry, TIIC and BRIDGE. TIIC...

…oin the Air Force at the San Diego recruitment office, but, “When the subject of drugs came up, | figured, okay, | have long hair, | look maybe homeless, they're going to know I'm lying if | say I've always been straight. I'll say I've smoked pot seven or eight times--something r...

…C-Corp Conversion: To convert or not to convert, that is the question (6 Nov 2017) Asset Managers & Brokers: Uncovering Long-Term Value with ESG (20 Sep 2017) Global Asset Management: Building the Money Manager of Tomorrow (13 Sep 2017) The Blackstone Group L.P.: Management Mee...

… factors contained in the Seaboard Report, both of which are discussed in Chapter 5. In general, the more egregious and long-standing the corruption, the more likely it is that DOJ and SEC would prosecute Company B. In certain limited circumstances, DOJ and SEC have in the past d...

…that Hagel will be confirmed as secretary of defense and that his private advice to Obama will more closely hew to his long-held beliefs about the futility of sanctions and the grave downside to a military strike. Partly for that reason, it remains very unlikely that the Obama a...

…years, namely Iran and the UAE. As for Libya, the current turmoil needs to come to an end, while the scale of any Iraqi long-term output increase remains the biggest uncertainty. Chart 38: We estimated that demand will grow by 5.9mn bpd in 2015- Chart 39: Other than Saudi Arabia...

…e themes, and polling feedback suggests shareholders want banks to make investment spend in innovation a priority -- so long as its self funded with savings found elsewhere. 68% of those polled across multiple company presentations believed that institutions should invest in inno...

The FCPA: Anti-Bribery Provisions years after the acquisition. After another employee of Company A reports the long-running bribe scheme to a director at Foreign Government Agency, Company A stops the payments and DOJ and SEC investigate. Based on these facts, would DOJ or SEC...

… burning candle of birth-love-marriage-death. Time, in the days before industry, was measured by nature’s schedule. How long it took a crop to mature. The solstices. A beehive filling with honey. It was marked by moving tides and shifting seasons, and it demanded a slowness, a pe...

…t, the option. The freedom to explore. Among social animals, only a few species pair bond for life, or at least a very long time. This fact is equally true of the social mammals: less than 5% of the 4000 or so species are strictly monogamous. For these rare species, most of thei...

…Company A instead paid for the senior officials to travel first-class with their spouses for an all-expenses-paid, week-long trip to Las Vegas, where Company A has no facilities? Yes. This conduct almost certainly violates the FCPA because it evinces a corrupt intent. Here, the...

…er? What does gatekeeping tell us? The dominant view of future relations between Americans and Chinese generally runs along a nervously familiar historical track: An established power (the US) anda rising one (China) consider each other. Do they cooperate? Scratch at each other...

…uests by the CIA, FBI, Pentagon and other agencies for communications intelligence, for example, which was 31,000 pages long, listed all the gaps in U.S. coverage of adversaries, including those cited by President Obama’s national security team. As Ledgett warned, this single doc...

the lead-up to Iraq's invasion in 1990. When faced with a build-up of Iraqi forces along its border, Kuwait decided not to mobilize its military out of fear that the move would provoke Saddam Hussein. The incentives for Gulf states to make similar strategic calculations in the fu...

…e have developed deep expertise in the infrastructure sector and sought secure, well-managed assets, generating stable, long-term returns for investors. We have done so by initiating and backing two experienced and highly-respected managers in the industry, TIIC and BRIDGE. TIIC...