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Mariquita: Trinidad’s lady in the attic
…Mariquita’s long lost art retrieved from crumbling house in Manzilla, Richard Charan writes in this article for Trinidad’s
Express. This is the last of a series of articles that by CHaran that you can find in the newspaper’s website.
THERE was once a wooden staircase in the corner of a room that led to the attic of that crumbling great house at Johnson Hill, Camparo Village, Manzanilla.
From this vantage point, one could choose any of seven portals, and see much of the 300-acre cocoa estate developed in the early 1900s by plantation owner George Johnson.
Holding tight on allocations ensures investment success
Fund CIOs keep their focus during early days, and see good results
Chief investment officers secret for investment success in 2020 was simple: stick to the plan.
None of the CIOs
Pensions & Invest
ments contacted said it was easy to manage multibillion-dollar defined benefit plans during the early phase of market turmoil that flared up in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
But they stressed that by maintaining their asset allocations through rigorous portfolio rebalancing and by taking advantage of distressed investment opportunities created by pandemic conditions, their portfolios came out of the panic phase in 2020 in good shape and went on to produce strong performance in the year ended Dec. 31.