Private Equity Firms Sell Assets to Themselves: How Pricing Power, Approval Friction and Procurement Leverage Are Being Reset

December 30, 2025
Private Equity Firms Sell Assets to Themselves: How Pricing Power, Approval Friction and Procurement Leverage Are Being Reset Continuation vehicles, self-deals, and internal asset sales are rewriting commercial leverage expectations across industries. With independent buyers scarce, pricing power increasingly shifts to the party able to raise fresh capital. This trend has already reached record participation, […]
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Berkshire Hathaway Without Warren Buffett: CEO Succession Governance Risk for Boards and Capital Operators

December 29, 2025
Berkshire Hathaway Without Warren Buffett: CEO Succession Governance Risk for Boards and Capital Operators Berkshire Hathaway Without Warren Buffett will mark the end of an era where capital credibility was conveyed through a founder’s persona rather than earned through governance proof. For decades, Buffett operated as Berkshire’s most efficient trust mechanism — an informal covenant […]
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Wessex Water bonus governance consequence extends beyond the ban perimeter

December 29, 2025
Wessex Water bonus governance consequence extends beyond the ban perimeter The commercial consequence of Wessex Water bonus governance lies in mandate perimeter design, illustrated when former chief executive Colin Skellett received a £170,000 bonus approved and funded by YTL Utilities (UK), the UK-registered parent entity that retained remuneration pricing authority beyond the subsidiary-level performance-pay ban. […]
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Why Founder Control Now Matters More Than Profit

December 23, 2025
Executive Analysis | Ownership & Control: Why Founder Control Now Matters More Than Profit The ability of a founder to extract extraordinary personal wealth from a privately held company during a loss-making year is not an anomaly. It is a feature of how modern capital, control, and ownership now intersect. What looks, on the surface, […]
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When Personal Capital Replaces Institutions: What Larry Ellison’s Move Signals About Power in Modern Deal-Making

December 22, 2025
Capital & Markets. When Personal Capital Replaces Institutions: What Larry Ellison’s Move Signals About Power in Modern Deal-Making Capital is no longer merely raised. Increasingly, it is asserted. At the very top of global deal-making, confidence has stopped flowing automatically from institutions and begun to concentrate in individuals capable of absorbing risk without consensus. When […]
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We’ve Finally Solved the Problem of True Randomness — and It Changes Far More Than You Think

December 22, 2025
Randomness sounds simple. Child’s play, even. A counting rhyme. A coin toss. A roll of the dice. But scratch beneath the surface and randomness turns out to be one of the most elusive, consequential concepts in modern science — and one that quietly underpins everything from cybersecurity and artificial intelligence to elections, financial markets and […]
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Nike Shares Fall After China Sales Slump — Strategic Lessons for Executives

December 22, 2025
Nike’s shares fell sharply following a sixth consecutive quarterly sales decline in Greater China, highlighting the challenges multinational companies face in key international markets. Under corporate governance and market regulations, investors are allowed to react to earnings reports, creating immediate implications for share value. This scenario illustrates the operational and strategic pressures that arise when […]
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Why Traders Betting £6 Billion Against the Pound Matters for Executives and Investors

December 22, 2025
UK financial markets are signaling caution: traders have ramped up bets against the pound to their highest levels in six years. Under UK financial regulations, speculators are legally allowed to “short” currencies — essentially betting on depreciation — using futures contracts tracked by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This trend is drawing attention following […]
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Why the World’s Wealthiest Are Quietly Choosing the UAE Over Europe

December 22, 2025
To most people, celebrity relocations look like lifestyle choices driven by sunshine, luxury real estate, and social media optics. In reality, where wealthy individuals choose to live is often a calculated decision shaped by tax regimes, personal security, capital mobility, and regulatory predictability. A growing number of high-profile moves to the United Arab Emirates reflect […]
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Franca Fund Gala Debuts in Doha Celebrating Fashion & Science

December 4, 2025
Inaugural Franca Fund Gala in Doha Celebrates Fashion, Culture and Cutting-Edge Genomics A Night Honoring Franca Sozzani’s Transformative Legacy The inaugural Franca Fund Gala illuminated Doha as one of the world’s rising cultural capitals. Held at the Museum of Islamic Art, the event paid tribute to the late Franca Sozzani, the pioneering Vogue Italia editor […]
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Black Friday 2025 Breaks Record With $11.8B Online Sales

December 1, 2025
Black Friday 2025 Online Shopping Surges to a Record $11.8 Billion Black Friday 2025 has set a new benchmark in U.S. retail history, with online shoppers spending an extraordinary $11.8 billion in a single day, according to fresh Adobe Analytics data. The new figure marks a striking 9.1% leap from last year’s total and reaffirms […]
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Karoline Leavitt Relative Detained by ICE

November 26, 2025
Family Ties, Immigration Crackdown — and the Hidden Costs Behind the Headlines A new chapter in America’s heated immigration debate unfolded this week when immigration officers detained a woman connected to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. The case has reverberated beyond politics to highlight broader social and economic stakes: what happens when immigration enforcement […]
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