Less than half of the people summoned for jury duty in a pair of criminal cases in La Junta showed up this week. Consequently, attorneys were not able to find enough jurors to move forward with the trials.
Lindsell Train trust ditches controversial gilts benchmark after generating £5.3m performance fees
Fees for the year ended 31 March 2021 were higher than 2018 and 2019 combined
The Lindsell Train Investment Trust (LTIT) has decided to scrap its controversial gilts benchmark after bagging £5.3m in performance fees.
The board of directors confirmed the £283m trust, run by Nick Train (pictured), Michael Lindsell and James Bullock, would be adopting a new benchmark, the MSCI World Index in sterling, with effect from 1 April 2021.
Its performance had been pegged against the annual average running yield on the longest-dated UK government fixed rate bond plus 0.5% with a minimum yield of 4%, despite it being in the IT Global sector.
30.05.2021 - Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: GDYN) (“Grid Dynamics”), a leader in enterprise-level digital transformation, today announced it has acquired Tacit Knowledge, a Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) owned company, and leading provider of end-to-end digital .
October 29, 2017
What better way to say farewell than with a slew of costume pictures from this year s (coming) Halloween? Happy Halloween 2017! From Ethan Siegel and Starts With A Bang. Keep looking to the Universe. And we ll have a lifetime of wonderful things to still explore.
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October 28, 2017 Delay is the deadliest form of denial. -C. Northcote Parkinson
Every massless particle and wave travels at the speed of light when it moves through a vacuum. Over a distance of 130 million light years, the gamma rays and gravitational waves emitted by merging neutron stars arrived offset by a…
October 27, 2017
“On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?” –Victor Francis Hess
Tom Kimen, Archie Stone and Edward Easton
Archie Stone presents a $2,000 check to Ed Easton, president of the Key Biscayne Athletic Club, as KBAC treasurer Tom Kimen looks on. The Stone Foundation money will be used to purchase athletic equipment.
Used helipad for sale
The federal governmentâs General Services Administration still hasnât decided how to get rid of the 2,500 square foot helipad that sits in Biscayne Bay at the end of Bay Lane, built when former President Richard Nixon lived on that street. Quincy Culpepper, of the GSAâs regional office, said the top brass in Washington havenât decided what to do with the $418,000 helipad, which has been declared âexcess property.â