Australia's Lendlease hires banks to run engineering unit sale: sources

Australian construction firm LendLease Group has appointed Morgan Stanley and local adviser Gresham to run the sale of its underperforming engineering and services business (E&S), two people aware of the matter told Reuters on Thursday.

Take your best shot: Life Lessons with soccer star Alex Morgan

Everyone has a dream of making it to the top, but what happens when you actually get there? Only a handful of people even know what that is like.

Ackman's fund zooms ahead as he casts himself as corporate helpmate

For months, activist investor William Ackman promised to rebuild his record. Now he has some numbers to prove it.

Expense report of the future reduces fraud and headaches

It sounds like it should have been impossible to miss, but it took more than a year for an industrial equipment company to discover $12,000 worth of doggie day spa charges on an employee's expense reports.

Skittish investors pull more than $20 billion from stocks, rush into bonds: BAML

Global equity funds saw massive outflows this week, a sharp reversal from last week's inflows as pessimism over economic growth gripped investors once again, driving them instead to search for yield in credit and buy safer assets like bonds.

Morgan Stanley holds top spot as activist defense firm: data

Morgan Stanley was ranked as the top adviser to companies targeted by activist investors publicly for the third straight year in 2018 while Goldman Sachs vaulted past two competitors to the number No. 2 spot, according to Refinitiv data published on Thursday.

Oil major Total CEO's compensation drops 17 percent in 2018: company document

The board of French oil and gas major Total has proposed total 2018 compensation for Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne of 3.1 million euros ($3.55 million), compared with 3.8 million in 2017, company documents showed on Wednesday.

Overdone? Short EU equities 'most crowded' trade for first time

Fund managers have named bearish bets in European equities as the "most crowded" trade in Bank of America Merrill Lynch's survey for the first time in its history, suggesting sentiment for one of the world's most shunned markets may rise from here.

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