City Moves – who’s switching jobs at Legal & General, Northern Trust and Jackpotjoy March 17, 2017 Today's City Moves cover insurance, wealth management and online bingo. Take a look at these movers and shakers: Legal & General Legal & General has appointed Dharshini David as corporate affairs director. Dharshini will take up the appointment at the end of March and will report to group CEO, Nigel Wilson. She will be responsible [...]
UK tech workers are quite unhappy, it turns out March 16, 2017 Tech workers in the UK are less likely to be working in their dream job or believe they can land it in future, and are twice as likely to hate their job than the rest of the world. New research reveals they are rather unhappy, at least compared to those in the US and Australia…. perhaps it's [...]
Why are megacities on the rise and why should you care? March 16, 2017 | City Talk Hear that? That's the sound of mental cogs grinding; business owners poring over Google, deciding where to put a pin in the map to grow their operations. The decision is not always as blind as pinning a tail on the proverbial donkey. If you produce Champagne or coffee, for example, you have the sense and scents to know where to set-up [...]
City job openings fall by a quarter as employers decamp from London before Brexit March 16, 2017 The number of City jobs available fell by almost a fifth in February, new figures have shown, which could be down to companies decamping from London ahead of Brexit, the company which compiled the figures warned. The number of new job openings fell from 8,325 last February to 6,945 last month, figures by Morgan McKinley Financial [...]
Move over, suits – the new kids on the block are coming to the Square Mile March 16, 2017 Imagine you are the founder of the latest, cutting-edge tech startup. Perhaps you’ve been backed by a private equity firm, or an angel investor. You might have even got a good old-fashioned bank loan. Either way, you’ve graduated out of your parent’s basement and are on the hunt for an office you can call home. [...]
City Moves – who’s switching jobs at Pemberton Asset Management, Wells Fargo Asset Management and Eight Roads Ventures March 16, 2017 Today's City Moves cover asset management and venture funding. Take a look at these movers and shakers: Pemberton Asset Management Pemberton, the independent asset management group backed by Legal & General Group, has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of Thomas Lack as chief operating officer. Thomas joins as a partner in the [...]
Podcast: Harvard MBA professor John Kotter’s leadership lessons from meerkats March 15, 2017 John Kotter is an emeritus professor at Harvard Business School and the legendary author of 20 books, including Our Iceberg is Melting. He joins us to talk about his new book, That's Not How We Do It Here – and explain what leaders can learn from a tribe of meerkats in the Kalahari desert… You can [...]
The augmented workforce isn’t coming – it’s already here: Are you ready? March 15, 2017 Digital technology is moving at an unprecedented speed, raising some of the most difficult social, political and ethical questions of our time. Along with disrupting the way we live our lives, it’s fundamentally rewriting the rules of work. Deloitte’s human capital trends survey reveals that despite being the top priority for nine in 10 UK [...]
City Moves – who’s switching jobs at EY, Moneycorp, Seedrs and Egress Software Technologies March 15, 2017 Today's City Moves cover financial services, foreign exchange, technology and venture funding. Take a look at these movers and shakers: EY EY has appointed Dan Cooper to the role of UK financial services banking and capital markets (BCM) leader. He will take over the role in April from Robert Cubbage, who is retiring. Dan started [...]
Tony Pidgley on Berkeley Group’s demotion from FTSE 100, giving up his six-figure salary and solving London’s housing crisis March 15, 2017 Berkeley Homes bowed out of the FTSE 100 following the Brexit vote last year but founder and chairman Tony Pidgley CBE isn’t perturbed. “I don’t run Berkeley for whether it's in or out of the FTSE 100. I run Berkeley because Berkeley does what it does well,” Pidgley tells City A.M. “I couldn’t control Brexit [...]