{"id":131410,"date":"2020-06-07T06:50:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T14:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=131410"},"modified":"2020-06-07T06:50:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T14:50:56","slug":"hot-new-comic-pete-drysdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=131410","title":{"rendered":"Hot New Comic Pete Drysdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the covid-19 pandemic hit, I wondered how it would affect Westfield Shopping malls which I thought were operated by the Lowy family. Turns out they sold out last year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9qYcWGsgPMI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/rear-window\/peter-lowy-s-beverly-hillbillies-connection-20200301-p545sz\">From the Australian Financial Review March 1, 2020<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Another Australian-American billionaire, Westfield heir Peter Lowy, lived in Beverly Hills for many years (and hosted fundraisers for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton) \u2013 though now resides in Malibu and is building a home in the \u201cbird streets\u201d of the Hollywood Hills next door to Friends star Matthew Perry.<\/p>\n<p>As Sydney\u2019s Daily Telegraph revealed in 2018, Lowy is now having a downright ball pursuing his second act as a stand-up comedian. <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/australia\/the-daily-telegraph-sydney\/20180411\/281479276991594\">His stage name is Peter Drysdale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ring any bells? The Beverly Hillbillies\u2019 banker was Mr Drysdale. Sure, his first name was Milburn, but we\u2019re still calling it uncanny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oc-Kuwc5bPA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Australian tendency would be to trash Peter Lowy for these efforts as Aussies love to cut down tall poppies. I think Yanks will give him a fair go. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=92523\">Peter Lowy has attracted a little press in America.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/people\/executive-directors\/bio\/peter-s-lowy\">According to the first result on Google<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peter Lowy is a principal of The Lowy Family Group (LFG) a private investment business with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Lowy is a principal of The Lowy Family Group (LFG) a private investment business with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Sydney. With a long-term focus on listed equities, real estate and technology, LFG also collaborates with select external firms to augment its direct investment activities.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the completion of its sale to Unibail-Rodamco in June, 2018, Mr Lowy served as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Westfield Corporation, the global leader in design, development and operation of iconic retail destinations in major world cities. Valued at $34.5 billion at the time of the transaction, the company held a portfolio of 35 shopping centres in the United States and United Kingdom, along with a seminal development site in Milan, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lowy has more than three decades of international investment and executive leadership experience in the REIT industry. Prior to his 35-year tenure with Westfield, he worked in investment banking in both London and New York. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Mr Lowy serves as Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council for Los Angeles County, is a Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, and is on the Supervisory Board of the recently combined Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the covid-19 pandemic hit, I wondered how it would affect Westfield Shopping malls which I thought were operated by the Lowy family. Turns out they sold out last year. From the Australian Financial Review March 1, 2020: Another Australian-American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=131410\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12980],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-lowy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131411,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131410\/revisions\/131411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}