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  • Ruffer, which is based in London, has actually turned a 4.4% profit over the past three months.

    Investing Hints From a Winner 2008

  • He needs advice – but one wonders about the sort of counsel he might get at home given the position of his son, Alexander, whose Financial Services Authority registration places him at Ruffer LLP.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • He works for the investment fund of Jonathan Ruffer, a titan of the "wealth management and private client" industry, whose firm Ruffer, registered offshore in Guernsey, manages £12.2bn of private assets.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • In a press conference Thursday, Rasmus Ruffer, the head of the ECB delegation negotiating the bailout, said the ECB remains ready to provide liquidity to the country and the euro zone.

    Portuguese Banks Eye Path to Stability Patricia Kowsmann 2011

  • Earlier this year Ruffer bought 13 historic paintings from the Church of England for £15m and then returned them for the church to put on public display.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • While markets world-wide have been tanking, in some cases falling by as much as a third, investors in the Ruffer Total Return mutual fund have been sitting pretty.

    Investing Hints From a Winner 2008

  • Prepare the cultivation in a Ruffer or Woodhead flask (Fig. 33) the inlet tube of which has its free extremity enveloped in a layer of cotton-wool, secured by thread or wire, whilst the exit tube is plugged in the usual manner.

    The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.

  • (Ruffer.) did not drink spirits, and they had practically the same hours of work as modern Egyptians, with every seventh day free.

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

  • A study of the internal organs has been made by Ruffer, who has shown that arterio-sclerosis with calcification was a common disease 8500 years ago; and he holds that it could not have been associated with hard work or alcohol, for the ancient Egyptians

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

  • A study of the internal organs has been made by Ruffer, who has shown that arterio-sclerosis with calcification was a common disease 8500 years ago; and he holds that it could not have been associated with hard work or alcohol, for the ancient Egyptians did not drink spirits, and they had practically the same hours of work as modern Egyptians, with every seventh day free.

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884

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