Undoubtedly helpful was that some of the university ’ s strongest programs were in the areas of music, speech, and art, disciplines in which ability could be measured by audition or portfolio rather than through paper qualifications.

In the United Kingdom, Jardine Motors is one of the country ’ s largest retail dealership groups with a portfolio of specialist franchises that includes Aston Martin, BMW, Ferrari, Lexus, Mercedes Benz, Porsche and, most recently, McLaren.

In Singapore, it is helping to create the city ’ s new Central Business District with an expanding joint venture portfolio of new developments.

Kawasaki ’ s portfolio also includes retractable roofs, floors and other giant structures, the Sapporo Dome's retractable surface is one example.

Merton ’ s research focuses on finance theory including lifecycle finance, optimal intertemporal portfolio selection, capital asset pricing, pricing of options, risky corporate debt, loan guarantees, and other complex derivative securities.

The Company ’ s 3DVIA portfolio includes, among other software: 3DLive, a suite of products designed to help individuals across the enterprise to search, navigate and collaborate in 3D in real-time over the Internet ; 3DVIA Composer, which enables users to deliver assembly procedures, technical illustrations and marketing materials utilizing 3D images and other 3D data that remains consistent with product data.

Lex boasts some distinguished alumni who have gone on to make careers in business and government – including Nigel Lawson ( former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer ), Richard Lambert ( CBI director and former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee ), Martin Taylor ( former chief executive of Barclays ), John Makinson ( chairman and chief executive of Penguin ), John Gardiner ( former chairman of Tesco ), David Freud ( former UBS banker and Labour adviser, now a Conservative peer ), John Kingman ( former head of UKFI and a banker at Rothschild ’ s ), George Graham ( RBS banker ), Andrew Balls ( head of European portfolio management at PIMCO ) and Jo Johnson ( Conservative Member of Parliament for Orpington ).

When the war broke out, Paasikivi was asked to enter Risto Ryti ’ s Cabinet as a Minister without portfolio — in practice in the role of a distinguished political advisor.

" The earliest unequivocal representation of the sixty-nine appears to be that on an oil-lamp preserved in the Munich Museum ( Deutsches Museum ), and first reproduced in Dr. Gaston Vorberg ’ s … portfolio, Die Erotik der Antiken in Kleinkunst und Keramik ( Munich, 1921 ) plate 58, showing the woman lying on top of the man.

Following this, AMD invested $ 7. 5 million in Transmeta, planning to use the company ’ s patent portfolio in energy-efficient technologies.

It provides BASF with a range of water-based resins that complements its portfolio of high solids and UV resins for the coatings and paints industry and will strengthen the company ’ s market presence, in particular in North America.

These large institutional investors need to protect the long-term value of their investments from inflationary debasement of currency and market fluctuations, and provide recurrent cash flows to pay for retiree benefits in the short-medium term: from that perspective, think-tanks such as the World Pensions Council ( WPC ) have argued that infrastructure is an ideal asset class that provides tangible advantages such as long duration ( facilitating cash flow matching with long-term liabilities ), protection against inflation and statistical diversification ( low correlation with ‘ traditional ’ listed assets such as equity and fixed income investments ), thus reducing overall portfolio volatility.

In Al-Madfai ’ s sixth cabinet ( 29 January 1953 ) he undertook the Communications and Public Works portfolio, retaining his position in Al-Madfai ’ s seventh cabinet ( 7 May 1953 ) until he resigned on 21 May 1953.

Manukau City Council ’ s portfolio leader for community safety, Councillor Dick Quax has been particularly critical.

More than 150 of the firm ’ s portfolio companies have gone public, and many other KPCB ventures have achieved success through mergers and acquisitions.

In June 2010, CIBC said it has signed a deal to buy a $ 2. 1-billion credit card portfolio from Citigroup ’ s Citibank Canada Master Card business.

Andreessen Horowitz ’ s portfolio holdings include Facebook, Foursquare, GitHub, Pinterest and Twitter.

In 2004 Grey ’ s VISIONS boxed set containing a portfolio of new works and Sacred Mirrors and Transfigurations, his collected works.

Douglas was reappointed to the finance portfolio after Labour ’ s victory in the 1987 general election and remained finance minister until December 1988.

Lange ’ s successor Geoffrey Palmer did not restore Douglas to the finance portfolio, then held by David Caygill, but appointed him Minister of Police and Minister of Immigration.

According to LucasArts, this announcement was " just the start of LucasArts ’ new mission to revitalize its deep portfolio of beloved gaming franchises ".

Pargesa Holding SA ’ s investment portfolio also includes Imerys, a mining entity majority owned by the Desmarais family and Belgian tycoon Albert Frère.

Anderson ’ s time in the fisheries portfolio was marked by considerable controversy with the commercial fishing industry as he worked for strict conservation measures to protect fish stocks.

British foreign policy, and Britain ’ s reputation in Europe, had sunk to their lowest ebb of the eighteenth century thanks to the 1768 Corsican fiasco, but Rochford ’ s realistic and capable handling of his new portfolio strengthened British foreign policy in several ways.

* Sale of Limited Partnership Interests – The most common secondary transaction, this category includes the sale of an investor's interest in a private equity fund or portfolio of interests in various funds through the transfer of the investor's limited partnership interest in the fund ( s ).

# IFAs are rapidly moving from the traditional investment solution for clients: recommending a portfolio of largely equity-oriented collective investment schemes ( Unit Trusts and OEICs ) and being paid initial and annual renewal commission by the fund provider to an outsourcing model: recommending that clients appoint a discretionary fund manager to manage the client's portfolio ( s ) and charging the client an annual oversight fee.

The GE matrix is an alternative technique used in brand marketing and product management to help a company decide what product ( s ) to add to its product portfolio, and which market opportunities are worthy of continued investment.

Reliance now has a complete vertical product portfolio from oil and gas production, refining, petrochemicals, synthetic garments and retail outlets.

Although Hutchison had a portfolio of valuable real estate interests in docks and retail ventures, the company ran into trouble, and had to be rescued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

The Corner Store retail division, originally part of Diamond Shamrock, was absorbed into Valero's business portfolio in 2001.

The Cadogan Estate has a considerable portfolio of retail property throughout Chelsea but notably on Fulham Road, Kings Road, and Sloane Street including Peter Jones, Harvey Nichols, and 12 hotels including the Cadogan Hotel.

" We have made these changes for a number of reasons ; first the emergence of our domain portfolio as an anticipated high growth area of our business, second, the importance of email as a key driver of future growth, third the increased size of our retail business as a result of recent acquisitions, and fourth the de-emphasis of our software libraries ," said Noss.

Following the demerger of Thorn and EMI in 1996, the retail arm was divested from the EMI portfolio within a year and spun off into the HMV Media Group, an investment venture between EMI Group and Advent International private equity group.

* AlfaStrakhovanie Group, one of the largest Russian insurers with a diversified portfolio of comprehensive business and retail insurance products.

It is also the third largest in the Harcourt Developments retail portfolio.

In June 2012, Brookfield Office Properties announced plans to acquire a portfolio of three office buildings and a development site in the City of London for $ 829 million from Hammerson Inc., a British real estate company focused on retail developments.

This included 57 retail branches with a $ 2 billion loan portfolio and $ 1. 9 billion in deposits.

Bernadette Castro managed the sale to Krause but retained the large portfolio of commercial real estate her father had acquired, both retail and industrial.

Its award-winning portfolio spans six continents and includes projects in the retail, entertainment, residential, healthcare, civic and public, workplace, mixed use, hospitality, urban planning and technology sectors.

The entire GGP portfolio totals roughly of retail space and includes more than 24, 000 retail stores.

He turned his family's small clothes factory and retail store into a leading textile manufacturer in his country, producing goods for traditional brands in its portfolio, such as Artex, Santista and Calfat, and vying for dominance of the global market after a merger with South Carolina-based Springs Industries.

The Link REIT ’ s portfolio consists of properties with an internal floor area of approximately 11 million square feet of retail space and approximately 80, 000 car park spaces.

The company has a portfolio of diverse business interests, including investments in retail, real estate, banking, telecommunications, water infrastructure, renewable energy, electronics, information technology, and management and business process outsourcing.

Products are sold throughout its portfolio of retail stores worldwide, as well as through its online store via dior. com.

In 2005, two investment product managers offering structured products joined the Portland Holdings portfolio, Copernican Capital Corporation has offered retail investment products, primarily sold by brokers, and has raised more than C $ 300 million since its launch.

Hongkong Land has a portfolio of office and retail buildings in key Asian cities, with a blue chip list of financial services tenants, and many of the world ’ s leading luxury retail brands, the likes of Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Armani and Dunhill.

While it continues to act as trustee of public funds and as the agent to the State Bank of Pakistan ( in places where SBP does not have a presence ) it has diversified its business portfolio and is today a major lead player in the debt equity market, corporate investment banking, retail and consumer banking, agricultural financing, treasury services and is showing growing interest in promoting and developing the country's small and medium enterprises and at the same time fulfilling its social responsibilities, NBP headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan with over 1, 250 branches country wide.

While it continues to act as trustee of public funds and as the agent to the State Bank of Pakistan ( in places where SBP does not have a presence ) it has diversified its business portfolio and is today a major lead player in the debt equity market, corporate investment banking, retail and consumer banking, agricultural financing, treasury services and is showing growing interest in promoting and developing the country's small and medium enterprises and at the same time fulfilling its social responsibilities, as a corporate citizen.