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business

Investors back wind-up of Partners Group’s UK-listed fund

Investors have voted to wind up Partners Group’s London-listed private-equity fund after a large majority backed converting their holdings into realisation shares and pursuing an orderly liquidation.

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science

Researchers at the University of Geneva contributed to the IceCube neutrino experiment recognised by this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, studying particles that offer a new way to observe the universe.

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crime

Swiss Ski vice-president Claude-Alain Schmidhalter has been charged with fraud and breach of trust over an alleged dispute involving a severance payment from his former engineering business.

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agriculture

More than 10,500 pigs are being culled on Swiss farms after an outbreak of highly contagious enzootic pneumonia spread across 14 cantons, with movement restrictions still in force.

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property

Swiss property prices rose 0.8% in the third quarter and 3.3% year on year, making home ownership increasingly difficult despite relatively favourable borrowing conditions.

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politics

Swiss unions and political parties have submitted more than 100,000 signatures opposing legislation that would allow generally binding collective labour agreements to override cantonal and municipal minimum wages.

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