UK Biffa has approach from GE-backed fund: sources
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British waste-collection firm Biffa  has received a counter-approach worth around 1.5 billion pounds ($3 billion) from a fund backed by General Electric , said sources familiar with the matter.
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Britain is in a strong position to withstand the global turmoil in financial markets, a spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday.
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Bank of England committee unanimously backed cheaper borrowing costs earlier this month
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If you invest in mutual funds, sooner or later you'll likely turn--with relief--to a mutual fund "supermarket." These are virtual bazaars that offer one-stop shopping for several thousand funds from different families. Brokers like Schwab, E-Trade and TD Waterhouse, and the large fund shops like Fidelity, Vanguard and T. Rowe Price all offer them.
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Business & money: Â· Fund chiefs stonewall on domicile questionÂ· MPs expected to demand answers next week
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The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that it has "brought forward" to this year $5.3 million of its 2005 pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to help ensure that the United ...
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AllianceBernstein Holding and Barclays Global Investors backed pay proposals of executives at companies in which they invest more frequently than other mutual fund firms last year, according to a union study.
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London Stock Exchange Plc said on Monday it had received an approach from mainland European stock market Euronext.
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Here's the best way to judge a fund's performance history.
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A cadre of buyout shops are expected to try to raise a total of &#36;45 billion for new European funds in the next year and a half.
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Â· Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama seek funds in UK Â· Expatriates are big source of campaign dollars
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This fund combines the Pacific Rim and Europe.
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How Scotland became the back office for London's financial industry.
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IPE.com 5/Oct/04: UK - Drinks firm Diageo has transferred four million shares in US cereal maker General Mills to its UK pension plan to help cut the schemeâs 750 million-pound (1.
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Defying conventional wisdom, one mutual fund specializing in alternative energy is earning strong returns.
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A Qatari investment fund, the Delta Fund, said it was talking with J Sainsbury, the British supermarket operator, about a takeover, the second bid this year for Sainsbury. Delta, which already holds a 25 percent stake in the grocer, said it was in preliminary talks to buy the rest. Sainsbury confirmed it had received an offer, but neither side disclosed a price. Earlier this year the company fended off a Â£10.1 billion ($20.6 billion) bid from a group of buyout funds.
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Investors are running back into mutual funds.