Rebirth of England.

Chapter 972 European Wealth
As I have said before, in Europe and the United States, the so-called "environmental protection" and "animal protection" are more often a business.

Take for example those environmental protection organizations that have risked their lives to carry out various protests during large-scale construction projects. How do you think they have so much free time that they don’t have to go to work to protest every day?
Of course not, there are interests involved.

Behind many environmental protection agencies are related environmental assessment companies...

Yes, as long as you have the right to speak about "environmental protection", whether you are environmentally friendly enough depends on the check you write for their assessment company.

Others, including "equal rights" organizations, also use the same routine - constantly accusing certain companies of discriminating against some "minority groups" in their employee structure or products, and then sending review teams to these companies to gain benefits. Later, these organizations did the same in Hollywood and the gaming industry... Look at what Blizzard's game characters have become.

Even in the project of England's High Speed ​​Rail Line 2, Barron used both soft and hard tactics. Not only did he threaten some of the more noisy "environmental protection" and "animal protection" organizations with tough means, but he also gave them a red date after the slap in the face - they funded and hired several assessment companies related to these organizations to evaluate the planned route of England's High Speed ​​Rail Line 2. Checks for several million pounds were written, and everyone was happy with the result.

Now the UK High Speed ​​Rail Line 2 is being implemented by a private enterprise such as the First Rail Group, which is able to adopt such flexible means.

If the "bosses" or "traffic experts" from state-owned companies were to take over, they would probably still fail to identify the "core demands" of these environmental and animal protection organizations, just like in the original time and space, and after wasting countless money, the project would still be intermittent.

After the success of Jaguar's TYPE, it can be said that the British Automobile Group is also full of confidence in the development of their electric vehicles.

At the beginning of next year, in addition to Jaguar's continued launch of new models of its subsequent electric coupe TYPE, the Land Rover brand will also launch the pure electric SUV Aurora X...

This is also the main reason why the British automotive group will expand their Gigafactory in Birmingham.

Regarding Johnson's matter, Cameron was smart not to mention the topic this time.

As public opinion intensified and more things about Johnson were revealed, this very unique mayor of London was in a state of panic and faced tremendous pressure.

He made a public statement a few days ago, apologized for his extramarital affair and resigned as Mayor of London.

You know, he just won re-election in last year's London mayoral election by defeating his old rival, the Labour Party candidate and former London Mayor Livingstone.

Following Johnson's resignation, his post as London mayor will be taken over by the deputy mayor until the next London mayoral election in 2016.

Although Johnson is currently a supporter of Cameron, the mayor of London remained in the Conservative Party after his resignation. Although Cameron feels a little regretful about this, he can accept it.

However, what is certain is that even if Cameron is re-elected in the 2015 general election, there will no longer be a place for Johnson in the new cabinet.

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"Hello, Earl Spencer, I'm glad you're here..."

"Duke of Folnock, we meet again. I hope you have a good time today." "Mr. Grosvenor, thank you for coming here specially. I heard that you have been in poor health recently? Are you feeling better now?"

A grand banquet is being held at Chatsworth House.

It can be said that almost all the top nobles in Britain were invited. The noble families who received the invitation letter written in beautiful cursive script felt extremely honored. After all, the invitation letter for this banquet was sent by the Duke of Devonshire, who now possessed the greatest wealth and power in Britain.

In December, the Barron family returned to Chatsworth House, where they planned to spend Christmas before returning to London.

Although Chatsworth House is undergoing another overall renovation, the exterior walls of the main house and some living spaces have been renovated, enough for the Barron family to stay and host such a grand banquet.

It can be said that only in a magnificent building like Chatsworth House can a banquet of such scale be held.

In this hall with a British classical style, with a magnificent background, it seems to have returned to the Victorian era, the golden age of the aristocracy, and the banquets that were popular...

"Barron, I heard that you are planning to launch two more funds?"

After the Duke of Westminster asked this question, many nobles focused their attention on Barron's upcoming answer.

The reason why so many nobles came here today, in addition to the "reputation" of the Duke of Devonshire - if the assassination attempt was successful, and some consortiums successfully shorted DS companies, then these nobles would only lament that another ducal family has fallen... and look for opportunities to gain some benefits from it.

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But none of these things happened. After the Duke of Devonshire returned to London, the attackers paid the price, and the Devonshire family is still as prosperous as ever - the share prices of DS-related listed companies have risen much more than before.

With this result, everyone was naturally very concerned about the news when they learned that they had the opportunity to invest again in the fund led by the Duke of Devonshire.

Seeing everyone's expectant gazes, Barron smiled and said directly:
“Yes, we will have two super funds open for subscription before next year. These two funds are the Vision Fund for investing in emerging markets and the European Wealth Fund for investing in mature European markets…”

The total size of the first phase of the Vision Fund is US$1000 billion, and US$650 billion has been raised so far, of which US$150 billion is DS Group’s own capital.

Because the Vision Fund invests in emerging markets including Asia and Africa, the expected return on the fund will be slightly higher, but at the same time, the risk will also increase accordingly.

In addition, there is the European Wealth Fund, which invests in mature European markets. The total size of its first phase is 500 billion euros. The expected annualized return of this fund is around 6-8%. Relatively speaking, the risk is relatively small because its investments are all in mature European market businesses.

Therefore, everyone can choose according to their investment preferences. However, both funds have investment thresholds - the minimum investment for the Vision Fund is US$1000 million, and the minimum investment for the European Wealth Fund is EUR 500 million.

(End of this chapter)