Chapter 336 The London Stock Exchange changes hands
“Your Royal Highness, Mr. Cameron and Mr. Johnson have arrived at the cigar room...”
After knocking on the door, I heard a voice coming from the door. In Dylan Ozdemi's cold voice, Barron replied:
"Okay, I understand."
"Are you leaving? Your Highness the Duke..."< br>
It has to be said that Rosie Huntington is indeed worthy of being a future supermodel. Her proud figure, even under the naked eye, makes people unable to take their eyes away.
“Yes, I will have someone take you back later.”
The last time I came here with the Duke of Westminster and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Rosie Huntington was After being selected by Barron, she also received corresponding resources, and as a new model, she appeared in fashion magazines such as "TeenVogue" and "ELLEGirl".
After Barron acquired the Gucci Group, his resources in the fashion industry began to enrich...
This time, he still called this woman over.
"I'm waiting for you..."
After offering a sweet kiss to the young Duke, Rosie Huntington said tenderly.
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On November 3, at three o’clock in the afternoon, American time, George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, gave a speech at the Reagan Center in Washington, announcing his re-election bid. victory.
Two days later, Barron received the news that Bush invited him again to attend the New Year's Eve banquet held at the White House on New Year's Day evening.
As early as last year, Barron had received such an invitation, but he declined the invitation at that time.
Now, it is obvious that after Bush is re-elected, he first needs to give reassurance to his "financiers", and he will definitely meet and communicate with Barron by then.
So he replied to the other party, saying he was honored to receive this invitation and would attend as scheduled.
At the same time, Barron also gave the Protector Military Services Company instructions to continue to expand their armed personnel...er, the size of security personnel, striving to increase the number of employees in Iraq to 4,000 before the end of the year. More than one person.
“What’s going on with the Athena Fund?”
“Currently, we have completed the distribution of funds and interest for mature fund products. Funds including the employee pension funds of Stuart Mining Group and Associated Foods (ABF) have all chosen to continue to purchase and have expired their funds. Set for more than two years..."
Athena Fund is a quantitative investment fund that started operating last year. This fund uses computers to automatically place orders based on the general trend of the securities market grasped by Barron through data models. for quantitative trading.
At the beginning, although Barron’s attracted a lot of capital investment for the Athena Fund, this was still a relatively cutting-edge investment method, and DS Capital had no relevant performance before this. , so even at the beginning, Barron's gave an agreement to protect capital, and most of the initial yields were higher than the current financial products, but most of these funds still chose a relatively conservative one-year lock-in period investment. Now, they have all expired. As this year progresses, the data model of the Athena Fund has been continuously improved, and its stability and accuracy have been greatly improved compared to the initial period.
Coupled with Barron’s own grasp of the trend of the entire cycle, the average rate of return on funds in the first year reached more than 55%.
This initial maturity of more than 1 billion U.S. dollars, after delivering fixed income to users, also brought more than 400 million U.S. dollars in revenue to DS Investment Company. Of course, after deducting various operating costs, the net income is also Above $350 million.
After the great success of the first investment cycle, those investors have successively increased the amount of funds to purchase this product, and many no longer just choose a one-year term, but a higher term. , after all, the longer the lock-in period, the higher the fixed income you can get...
Currently Athe The total amount of funds of the Athena Fund has exceeded 3 billion U.S. dollars. It is expected that next year’s income will be much higher than this year. This is a very good expectation for DS Investment Company. After all, the risk of the Athena Fund is higher than that of the Mars Fund. , should be lower and more stable, which itself is determined by the characteristics of quantitative trading.
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As of the end of October, the London Stock Exchange had not found another buyer willing to accept the purchase price of 1.5 billion pounds. In the end, the British government invested in global industries. Without further review of the fund's acquisition offer, the London Stock Exchange agreed to a 50% premium to the GII Fund's acquisition price.
In this regard, after holding more than 35% of the shares of the London Stock Exchange, the GII Fund will acquire the remaining less than 65% of the shares of the London Stock Exchange at an overall valuation of 1.5 billion pounds, thus turning this historic company in England and the world into one. The oldest stock exchange is privatized, thereby completing its 100% acquisition.
“We will continue to keep the London Stock Exchange under the supervision of relevant British institutions, and invest more funds to upgrade its various technologies so that this oldest stock exchange will be in the In the future competition, we will gain a more leading position.”
After the acquisition was completed, GII Fund CEO Finn Hudson told the media.
As for the GII Fund's completion of the acquisition of the London Stock Exchange, in addition to Barron's, the Saudi Public Investment Fund and the Kuwait Investment Authority are even more excited.
After all, the London Stock Exchange has the largest number of listed oil and energy companies in the world, including energy giants such as British Petroleum (BP) and Royal Shell, which are all listed on the London Stock Exchange. Therefore, it can be said that the London Stock Exchange controls There is a lot of relevant data, which is of great significance to these tycoon countries in the Middle East that mainly export oil.
This is also the reason why the Qatar Investment Authority later invested heavily in the London Stock Exchange. However, although it was the main investor of the GII Fund, according to the original agreement, the Saudi Public Investment Fund and the Kuwait Investment Authority only had the final rights to dividends. It has no right to interfere with the companies acquired by the GII Fund...
Otherwise, the British side would not say that it was "neutral" about the acquisition of the London Stock Exchange by the GII Fund, and did not interfere too much. .
After completing the acquisition of the London Stock Exchange, GII Fund did not immediately reorganize the management of the London Stock Exchange too much. Clara Firth still served as the CEO of the London Stock Exchange, but she was replaced. hired two managers.
The reason for this is naturally that after Clara Firth saw that it was difficult to prevent the GII Fund from acquiring the London Stock Exchange, she "jumped ship" in time and became loyal to Barron's.
The management they replaced were also the two who had the toughest attitude towards the acquisition of GII Fund at that time...
Anyway, for Barron's, there is no need to be too urgent in taking control of the London Stock Exchange, just step by step. This can also avoid turmoil in the London Stock Exchange and avoid causing dissatisfaction with the government.
(End of this chapter)