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María Dolores de Cospedal: Seeking More Bang
Almost nobody saw her coming. In barely ten years, María Dolores de Cospedal went from a political nobody to become Spain’s minister of Defence – the second woman to claim that job – and partake in the secretive Bilderberg Conference,
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CFI.co Meets the CFO of Heathrow Airport Holdings: Javier Echave
Javier Echave serves as chief financial officer of Heathrow Airport Holdings since May 2016. He is responsible for leading the organisation financially and to give passengers the best airport service in the world whilst delivering £1bn+ EBITDA growth over the
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CFI.co Meets Akerton Partners: The Experience and Knowhow to Make a Difference
Francisco Camacho Francisco Camacho is a managing partner, and cofounder, of Akerton Partners. Mr Camacho has a degree in Economics and Business Sciences, Advanced Direction Programme, of the INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France. He has completed a number of
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CaixaBank’s InverCaixa Gestión: Spain’s Leader in Asset Management
CaixaBank is Spain’s third largest banking group and the biggest in the domestic market by business volume with a customer base of 13.4 million. CaixaBank is also one of the most solvent amongst banks in the Eurozone with a CET1
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CFI.co Meets the InverCaixa Gestión Fixed Income Fund Management Team: Proactive Approach in Fixed-Income Fund Management
InverCaixa Gestión, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CaixaBank Group, earlier this year received the Best Fixed Income Fund Management Team Spain 2015 Award. Last year, InverCaixa Gestión registered a particularly strong growth of its fixed-income funds which ballooned by 89%, thus
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Greece: The Primacy of Politics to Provide a Solution
Just a few years ago, Forbes Magazine – that self-proclaimed “Capitalist Tool” – identified the primacy of politics as the greatest danger facing Europe and the European Union (EU). The publication merrily took a swipe at Mario Draghi, president of
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Cristiano Ronaldo: Football Virtuoso Equipped with Class and Modesty
The embodiment of the superlative, striker Cristiano Ronaldo gathers titles by the dozen: Most Expensive Football Player in History; Most Goals in a Single Season; Fastest Player to Reach 50, 100, 150 and 200 Goals, etc. He’s also a most
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As Spain and Argentina Team Up, Royal Navy Sets Sail for Gibraltar
A significant chunk of the Royal Navy has set sail for the Mediterranean and the Gulf region on what is billed a “routine deployment”. The British fleet now underway is to engage in a long series of exercises – collectively
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Reef of Contention: Spain Talks Tough on Gibraltar
The Spanish government is taking a cue from Argentina: Whenever beset by apparently insurmountable problems and tanking approval ratings, find some external issue in order to rally the nation around the flag. In times of domestic troubles, successive Argentine governments
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CFI.co Meets Dr. Naseer Shahir Homoud
Born in 1963 at Irbid, Jordan, Naseer Shahir Homoud is a multi-dimensional personality – primarily a real estate developer but also well known as an author and philanthropist. A dentist by training, Dr. Homoud has made significant contributions in many
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