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☆ Inside $178 billion Man Group's Oxford gathering: Academic hotshots, internal rising stars, and $25 trillion in institutional capital
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Bradley Saacks | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Go to newsletter preferencesSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewEven when compared to the impressive and lengthy history of the University of Oxford, this week's gathering at Trinity College is noteworthy. Academics, nerds, and rising starsThe speakers over the two-plus days are roughly half Man employees and half external invitees. The firm balances the external speakers — from finance and other disciplines — with a line-up of Man executives and internal rising stars who are working on something that ties into the overall theme. Oxford offers plenty of advantages for the firm's leadership to get to know the decision makers at these firms.

Persons: —, Tom Holland, Steven Desmyter, Milken, Desmyter, there's, Holland, Morgan Stanley, Clare Woodman, John Curtice, Jamie Dimon, Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, Mike Lynch, Sumant Wahi, Vinayak Kumar, It's Organizations: Service, University of Oxford, Trinity College, Business, Ashmolean Museum, BBC, Morgan Stanley EMEA, Oxford, Oxford Man Institute, Union House Locations: British, Davos, Hawaii, Sydney, Sicilian, it's, Rhodes House, Trinity, New York, London, Dubai

☆ ‘Botticelli Drawings’ Review: A Master Painter’s Skills on Paper
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-06 | by ( Cammy Brothers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Study for ‘Portrait of a Lady (Simonetta Vespucci)’ (c. 1480) Photo: Ashmolean MuseumSan FranciscoIn the popular imagination, Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445-1510) is associated with ethereal nymphs, idealized nudes, and blond beauties, thanks largely to the ubiquity of his most famous paintings, “Primavera” and “Birth of Venus.” But as a stunning new show at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum establishes, he is a more complex, intellectual, conflicted and varied artist than superficial familiarity might suggest.

Persons: Simonetta Vespucci, ’, Sandro Botticelli, “ Organizations: Ashmolean Museum San Francisco, “ Primavera, Francisco’s Legion

☆ Britain's Oxford University cuts ties with Sackler family over opioid links
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The University of Oxford has cut ties with the Sackler family, whose wealth derives from opioid drugs, removing their name form a number of positions and buildings, including two galleries in the Ashmolean Museum. Britain's University of Oxford cut ties with key benefactor the Sackler family, whose wealth derives from addictive opioid drugs and stand accused of helping fuel a U.S. epidemic. The university said that the move, which was approved by its governing council Monday, had also received the "full support" of the Sackler family. "Oxford University has undertaken a review of its relationship with the Sackler family and their trusts, including the way their benefactions to the University are recognized," the university said in a statement. "Following this review, the University has decided that the University buildings, spaces and staff positions using the Sackler name will no longer do so," it said.

☆ Oxford University wipes the Sackler name from its buildings
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Anna Cooban | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —Oxford University will remove the Sackler name from its buildings following a review of its relationship with the family that recently expressed regret for its role in the US opioid crisis. The 900-year old university said in a statement that it would remove the Sackler name from some of its most prominent landmarks, including parts of the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology and the Bodleian Library. The university said the decision had “the full support of the Sackler family,” adding that it would keep the Sackler name on two donor boards “for the purposes of historical recording of donations to the university.”The Sackler Trust did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment. Oxford said in its statement that it had not received any new donations from the Sackler family or its charitable trusts since January 2019. In March, a US judge approved a $6 billion settlement paid by the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma to several US states as well as victims of the opioid crisis.

☆ O familie din Anglia a descoperit în propria grădină un tezaur din monede de aur, din vremea lui Henric al VIII-lea (FOTO)
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-11 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +3 min

Patru dintre monede poartă efigia lui Henric al VIII-lea şi, în mod curios, una dintre iniţialele a trei dintre soţiile sale: Caterina de Aragon, Anne Boleyn şi Jane Seymour. Probabil că tezaurul a fost îngropat de un negustor bogat sau de un membru al clerului, susţine şi John Naylor, expert în monede din cadrul Ashmolean Museum, aparţinând Universităţii Oxford. "A fost o perioadă, în anii 1530 şi 1540, când s-a produs Desfiinţarea Mănăstirilor şi ştim că unele biserici au încercat să-şi ascundă bogăţiile, sperând că astfel vor putea să le păstreze", a explicat el. Însă decizia de a grava iniţialele soţiilor lui Henric pe monede este fără precedent. Iar dacă ţinem cont de numeroasele căsătorii ale lui Henric al VIII-lea (6 în total), iniţialele de pe monede au fost schimbate frecvent.

Persons: Edward al IV - lea, Henric al VIII - lea, Caterina de Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Henric al VIII -, Barrie Cook, John Naylor, Henric al VIII - lea al Angliei, Henric ., Thomas Wolsey, Cancelar, Henric, Edward al VI - lea, Edward, Anna de Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr Organizations: British Museum, Catolice Locations: Anglia, New Forest, Hampshire, Angliei, Regatului Unit, Museum, Oxford, Ţara Galilor, Irlanda

Patru dintre monede poartă efigia lui Henric al VIII-lea şi, în mod curios, una dintre iniţialele a trei dintre soţiile sale: Caterina de Aragon, Anne Boleyn şi Jane Seymour. Familia care a descoperit tezaurul este din districtul New Forest din Hampshire în sud-estul Angliei, a anunţat British Museum, care conduce programul Portable Antiquities Scheme. „A fost o perioadă, în anii 1530 şi 1540, când s-a produs Desfiinţarea Mănăstirilor şi ştim că unele biserici au încercat să-şi ascundă bogăţiile, sperând că astfel vor putea să le păstreze”, a explicat el. Henric al VIII-lea a fost Rege al Angliei și Lord al Irlandei (titulatura de lord a fost abandonată după 1541, de atunci fiind adoptat titlul de rege și pentru Irlanda) între 1509 și 1547. Henric al VIII-lea este regele care a rupt Anglia de Biserica Catolică și a îndreptat-o spre protestantismul anglican, proces care a fost finalizat de fiul și fiica sa, regele Edward al VI-lea (1547-1553) și Elisabeta I (1558-1603).

Persons: Henric al VIII - lea, Caterina de Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Henric al VIII -, Barrie Cook, John Naylor, Henric al VIII - lea al Angliei, Henric ., Thomas Wolsey, Cancelar, Henric, Edward al VI - lea, Edward, Anna de Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr, Tudor, Papalitatea, Henric al VII - lea, Lancaster, York, Henric al VIII, lea, Elisabeta I Organizations: British Museum, Catolice, Rozelor Locations: New Forest, Hampshire, Angliei, Regatului Unit, Museum, Oxford, Anglia, Ţara Galilor, Irlanda, Lord, Irlandei

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