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FORBES News, Mar 30, 2012

Societe Generale Private Banking and Forbes Insights Analyse Global Wealth and ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
NEW YORK--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Forbes Insights and Societe Generale Private Banking have published “Global Wealth and Family Ties,” aglobal study of the impact of family ties in the creation, management and transmission of large fortunes.
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Why China's Rich and Russia's Rich Share Many Traits
Forbes
I noticed these similarities while analyzing 1253 of the biggest fortunes in 12 countries, including Russia and China, for a Forbes Insights report, “GlobalWealth and Family Ties,” sponsored by Societe Generale Private Banking.
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Beth Brooke Talks And Walks Authentic Leadership
Forbes
I've always believed that solid leadership is centered on authenticity, a sentiment that took on new dimensions after sitting down with Beth Brooke, Global Vice Chair of Public Policy at the mega-accounting firm, Ernst & Young.
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Forbes
MasterCard, Visa warn of suspected security breach
GlobalPost
Both companies have confirmed separately that banks have been alerted to possible data theft involving a third-party vendor in the US, Forbes reported. Neither MasterCard nor Visa's internal systems were compromised, they said.
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What's Brewing At Bill Gates' Biggest (And Least Known) Clean Tech Bet
Forbes
Its clients are among the most well recognized global consumer brands: Pepsi, McDonald's, Nestle, Sara Lee, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Hyatt Hotels and Hilton Hotels, to name a handful. Last year it completed an $8 billion merger with water processing firm ...
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DryNites® Launch iVillage Partnership - Includes Contextual Advertising by ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The fully integrated marketing, advertising and PR partnership by DryNites® includes contextual advertising by global leaders Vibrant, WebTV and live web chats with DryNites® experts Dr. Hilary Jones and psychologist Emma Kenny, a series of monthly ...
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Hart's packaging empire Reynolds Group posts $417m loss
New Zealand Herald
New Zealand's richest man Graeme Hart is worth NZ$7b, according to the latest Forbes Rich List. Photo / Norrie Montgomery Reynolds Group Holdings, Graeme Hart's global packaging business, has seen its annual loss widen to US$417 million (NZ$510m) from ...
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Dalio tops hedge fund rich list, Paulson exits
Reuters
At 36, Coleman ranks as one of the industry's younger managers but also as one its most successful, after his Tiger Global Management made most of its money last year on the short side, or by betting that certain securities would fall, investors in his ...
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Uniqlo to open in Philippines
AsiaOne
By Cheche V. Moral In an interview with Philippine media, Tadashi Yanai said that while the global economy is sluggish, "in countries like the Philippines, the situation is very good. Asia, for the first time, has the momentum in terms of development.
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AsiaOne
What I'd Do With The $540 Milllion Lottery
Forbes
There's been too much borrowing , too much risk taking, scarcity prudence in investment techniques, inability deal with concepts of future liabilities, relationship of currencies, global geopolitics. All this will take generations, ...
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State capitalism: Is it a rival to market capitalism?
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
Since the start of the current global economic crisis in 2008, there has been renewed interest in the concept of 'State capitalism', as distinct from 'market capitalism'. (The term 'liberal capitalism' is shorthand for 'liberal democracy plus market ...
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The rich list: The hedge funders who each brought home BILLIONS in 2011 - and ...
Daily Mail
A graduate of Harvard University and Long Island University, Mr Dalio ranks #44 in the Forbes 400. He is known for his harsh business practices, which, according to Forbes, include videotaping all meetings and requiring brutal honesty from all staffers ...
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Daily Mail
MasterCard and VISA warn of massive data breach, impact unknown
DigitalJournal.com
It appears the name of the card processor involved in the data breach was not immediately available as this story was breaking, however the Wall Street Journal has reported GlobalPayments Inc. is the processor involved, according to unnamed sources ...
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DigitalJournal.com
Kwok brothers of HK's Sun Hung Kai Properties face graft charges
Global Property Guide
Forbes.com had estimated the Kwok family's wealth at $15.4 billion and had been on the third top spot as among Hong Kong's richest. This is not the first that a company officer was arrested for similar charges. Sun Hung Kai's executive director Thomas ...
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Stockhouse Movers & Shakers: Gold, oil to lead commodities pack: Bharti
Stockhouse
... Stan Bharti has tended to take a long term approach to global commodities markets. “When I invest, I'm thinking five years from now,'' said Bharti, the 59-year-old founder of Toronto-based Forbes & Manhattan, which oversees a portfolio of roughly ...
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Best Buy, BlackBerry Promise Change, But It Sounds Much the Same - PRNewser
mediabistro.com
The news comes just a couple of months after a Forbes article ran with a headline “Why Best Buy is Going Out of Business… Gradually.” The article pointed to poor and annoying customer service along with some product flops (like 3D TV) and retail's ...
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mediabistro.com
Best Buy to Close Dozens of U.S. Stores, Cut Employees
Patch.com
In addition, the Global Post reported the company aims to open 50 stores in China by 2013. The company did not say which stores would close. The news of closures and downed profits are not a surprise to many, as Best Buy reported shortfalls after its ...
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Is it time to join the gold rush?
Washington Post
According to Forbes, analysts believe China bought 490 tons of gold in 2011, almost double the amount it purchased in 2010. Amid global tumult, investors and even central banks buy gold. No one gets a deal on gold: If it's too good to be true, it is.
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Russell Peters Returns to Canada in June With the NOTORIOUS WORLD TOUR
MarketWatch (press release)
Listed on the Forbes List as one of the top ten Highest Earning Comics in the US in 2009 and 2010, Russell Peters has spent the past 23 years building a career to become one of the biggest comics in the world. Thanks to YouTube and a global following, ...
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Your 2 Cents' Worth: Thursday, March 29, 2012
DesMoinesRegister.com
Those of you who believe global warming is bad, consider this: If indeed it is true, then would you rather have snow or rain for precipitation? Iíll take the rain.Forbes ranks Des Moines as the No. 2 city for jobs. If someone is unemployed though, ...
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Summers Ally Goes After World Bank Nominee Jim Yong Kim
Firedoglake
Pritchett told Forbes magazine, “It's an embarrassment to the US You cannot with a straight face say this person is the most qualified to lead the World Bank.” It was Pritchett, while working under Summers at the World Bank in 1991, who drafted the ...
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Movers & shakers: Japan
The Deal Pipeline
Creating a new Japanese presence in the global Internet economy, Hiroshi Mikitani, founder, chairman and CEO of Rakuten Inc., has deployed mergers and acquisitions to build an e-commerce empire with revenue of ¥379.9 billion ($4.7 billion).
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The Deal Pipeline
DIARY-NON S&P WEEK AHEAD
Reuters
0.39 3 0.49 03 Apr AMC Q4 2012 Mitcham Industries Inc 0.57 5 0.17 04 Apr AMC Q3 2012 AngioDynamics 0.08 5 0.15 04 Apr BMO Q2 2012 Acuity Brands, Inc. 0.62 12 0.45 04 Apr AMC Q3 2012 Global Payments Inc. 0.84 24 0.63 04 Apr AMC Q3 2012 Mistras Group, ...
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Goldman Looks to Woo Investors in India
Fox Business
Industrialists including Mukesh Ambani, Asia's second-richest man, according to Forbes, and chairman of Reliance Industries; and Ratan Tata, head of India's biggest business house, the Tata group, which also owns the Taj hotel chain, were also due to ...
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America's dream unravels
Financial Times
Software billionaires, such as Larry Ellison of Oracle and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, make up an outsized share of theForbes 400 list of America's wealthiest. Many of the remainder in the top echelons made their money from hedge funds and Wall ...
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Financial Times
Converting wealth gap into an 'olive'
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
Up to 105 mainlanders worth more than US$1 billion made it onto the GlobalRich List compiled by Forbes magazine in 2011, with China taking honors as the world's second-largest home to the super rich after the US. With the strong ability to create ...
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Jim Rogers & Peter Schiff Agree, US Treasury Crisis In 2013 (GLD, IAU, UUP ...
ETF Daily News (blog)
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Commodities guru Jim Rogers and Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff have recently gone on the record that the next harrowing event in the ongoing globalfinancial crisis will most likely take place after the ...
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ETF Daily News (blog)
EUROVESTECH PLC : 29/03/12 Half-yearly report ›more
4-traders
Forbes.com is adopting Maxifier's platform to optimise the effectiveness of its advertisers' campaigns, manage its global advertising inventories and improve operational efficiencies. In recent weeks, several significant contracts have been signed, ...
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Energy Expert Robert Rapier Reflects on Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The book covers the overall global energy situation, the particular risks for the US with its present energy mix, the energy outlook for the developed world and emerging economies like China and India, what peak oil really means, and the present and ...
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Roozt.com launches new online marketplace bringing sexy back to giving back
Examiner.com
The Rooztaholic will be available at Nikki's Venice Beach for the entire month of April with proceeds helping to educate children in need through non-profit partner, Pencils of Promise, a global charity supported by Justin Bieber that builds schools in ...
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Factual sea change
C21Media
Ulla Martikainen-Florath, head of programmes at YLE Teema, says: “Discovery and the other global channels still have a very small audience share in Finland. There is no competition from their side so far. “We have a lot of history, science and culture ...
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C21Media
Pain Persists Among Europe's Ailing Economies
New York Times (blog)
William R. Rhodes wrote in Forbes this week: “What is urgently needed is a new balance within Europe between essential continuing efforts in most countries to curb public spending excesses, and securing fresh growth momentum.” Mr. Rhodes, a banker who ...
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New York Times (blog)
POSCO, Marubeni pour $3.6 billion into Australia iron ore project
Reuters
Commodities forecasters are divided on whether such a surge in supply coinciding with a Chinese economic cool-off will finally push the globalseaborne market for iron ore into oversupply over the next 12 months or so, after three years of heady growth ...
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Jim Flaherty's 2012 federal budget speech: Full text
National Post
... have recouped all the jobs lost during the global recession. In fact, since July 2009 our economy has created more than 610000 net new jobs. The World Economic Forum says our banks are the soundest in the world. Forbes magazine ranks Canada as the ...
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National Post
Fisher Investments Opens New Camas, WA Office
Seattle Post Intelligencer
... which serve a global client base of diverse investors. Fisher Investments' clients include over 100 large institutions and over 25000 high net worth individuals. Founder and CEO Ken Fisher has written the Forbes "Portfolio Strategy" column for 27 ...
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Financial Services World Quality Report Reveals Cloud and Outsourcing Are Key ...
Bobsguide (press release)
“The cloud is not without perceived risks, most notably security,” says Govindarajan Muthukrishnan, Testing Practice and Rightshore Leader, Capgemini Global Financial Services, “but the cloud is often a more cost-effective, quicker and easier way to ...
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Global Miners Make Risky Bet on China - Forbes
The forecast, made on the eve of the Global Iron Ore & Steel Forecast ....Susan Shirk was recently interviewed on PBS News Hour regarding what she thought ...
www.forbes.com/.../global-miners-make-risky-bet-on-china/
The Focus of Corporate Philanthropy – Forbes | Global Health Hub ...
Global Health Hub: news and blogosphere aggregator · Home · Infectious Disease ... The Focus of Corporate Philanthropy – Forbes. By Humanosphere Social ...
www.globalhealthhub.org/.../the-focus-of-corporate-philanthr...
Societe Generale Private Banking and Forbes Insights Analyse Global
Study of global wealth and family ties, by Forbes Insights and Societe Generale Private Banking.
eon.businesswire.com/.../societe-generale-private-banking
Societe Generale Private Banking and Forbes Insights Analyse Global
From Yahoo! Finance: Forbes Insights and Societe Generale Private Banking have published “Global Wealth and Family Ties,” a global study of the impact of ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../societe-generale-private-banking-forbes...
CLIMATE Obstinately Refuses to Cooperate with Global Warming ...
By LARRY BELL, OP/ED | 3/27/2012 , Forbes. Are you worried about globalwarming during this unusually mild winter? Geeze, who would have expected to see ...
www.politicalnewsnow.com/.../climate-obstinately-refuses-to-c...
Forbes global rich list published - Education News
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www.f-paper.com/?i1289286-Forbes-global-rich-list...
TODAYonline | Hot News | Headwinds holding back US rebound ...
Headwinds holding back US rebound: Forbes ... Mr Forbes, who was in Singapore yesterday to speak at the Global Leaders Series ... Other Hot Newsheadlines ...
www.todayonline.com/.../Headwinds-holding-back-US-rebou...
Jesse's Café Américain: MF Global: Forbes Sums It Up Well ...
MF Global: Forbes Sums It Up Well, 'Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here'.Forbes has been head and shoulders above the rest of the mainstream media in ...
jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/.../mf-global-forbes-sums-it...
Asylum claims in Australia fall despite global ... - Forbes Advocate
AUSTRALIA defied a global trend and recorded a 9 per cent drop in asylum seeker claims last year, supporting the United Nations refugee agency's assertion ...
www.forbesadvocate.com.au/news/...in.../2503097.aspx
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