Chapter 336 London Stock Exchange changes ownership

"Your Highness the Duke, Mr. Cameron and Mr. Johnson have all arrived at the cigar room..."

After hearing the cold voice of Dylan Ozdemi coming from the door after knocking on the door, Barron replied:

"Okay, got it."

"Are you leaving? Your Highness the Duke..."

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'll have someone take you back later."

The last time she came here with the Duke of Westminster and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, after Rosie Huntington was selected by Barron, she also obtained the corresponding resources and appeared in "Teen Vogue" as a new model. ” and “ELLE Girl” and other fashion magazines.

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 and sweetly.

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On November 3, at three o'clock in the afternoon U.S. time, George W. Bush and his wife Laura gave a speech at the Reagan Center in Washington, announcing his victory in the re-election campaign.

Two days later, Barron received 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 George W. Bush is re-elected, he first needs to give his financial backers some reassurance. Then he will definitely meet and communicate with Barron.

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, security personnel, and strive to increase the number of employees in Iraq to more than 4,000 before the end of the year.

"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 extended their maturities. Set over two years…”

Athena Fund is a quantitative investment fund that started operating last year. This fund conducts quantitative transactions based on the general trend of the securities market grasped by Barron, through data models, and using computers to automatically place orders.

At the beginning, although Barron attracted a lot of capital investment for the Athena Fund, because this is still a relatively cutting-edge investment method, and DS Capital had no relevant performance before this, even in the initial , Barron's gave an agreement to guarantee capital, and at first most of the yields were higher than the current financial products, but most of these funds chose a relatively conservative one-year lock-in period investment, and now they have gradually reached Expect.

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 entire cycle trend, the average 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...

At present, the total amount of funds of Athena Fund has exceeded 3 billion US dollars. It is expected that the income next year will be much higher than this year. This is a very good expectation for DS Investment Company. After all, the risk of Athena Fund is higher than that of Mars. Funds should be lower and more stable, which 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’s acquisition offer for Global Industrial Investment Fund was not subject to further review. The London Stock Exchange agreed to a purchase price of 50% premium for GII Fund.

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 gain in future competition. A more advanced 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 holds 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 right to distribute dividends. It has no right to interfere with the companies acquired by the GII Fund...

Otherwise, the British side would not say it was "neutral" regarding the GII Fund's acquisition of the London Stock Exchange, and would not interfere too much.

After completing the acquisition of the London Stock Exchange, the GII Fund did not immediately rectify the management of the London Stock Exchange. Clara Firth still served as the CEO of the London Stock Exchange, but only replaced two managers.

The reason for this is naturally that Clara Firth "jumped ship" in time and became loyal to Barron's after seeing that it was difficult to prevent the GII Fund from acquiring the London Stock Exchange.

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 turbulence on the London Stock Exchange and avoid causing dissatisfaction with the government.