Navigating the new world of business finance February 22, 2016 Good businesses today will have no issue finding funding to finance their growth. Instead, the problem is that, given the diversity of options available to companies, the landscape can be quite confusing. Pre-credit crisis, the banking market was a cosy, relationship-led high street bank market with four or five local players, and businesses knew where [...]
Millennials, houses, retirement and expectations: Why 20-somethings shouldn’t dismiss the idea of saving £800 a month if they want a nice lifestyle in retirement February 18, 2016 It’s quite interesting reading some of the articles around at the moment regarding problems for the younger generations today. It seems as though priorities and squeezed disposable income are something new, when in reality most generations have faced financial difficulties through their lifetime. There are always exceptions to the rule, so I apologise in advance for generalising. The older [...]
Moaning millennials? Generation Y just want a job they can enjoy February 17, 2016 Moaning millennials? Old geezers down the pub used to tell the younger generation: “You’ve never had it so good”. Nowadays I’d expect most millennials would spit their pint out laughing, assuming they can afford to pay £5 for a pint. So a report today, which suggested generation Y (those born after 1980) are the "whiniest workers", [...]
Generation Y-ney? It’s official – millennials are the moaniest workers, while Generation X have the strongest work ethic February 17, 2016 Been hearing a lot of complaints from the youngest members of your team recently? Not surprising, apparently: new research has suggested that millennials – those born between 1980 and 2004 – are likely to be your workplace's whiniest workers. The research, by Workfront, found 41 per cent of workers think their millennial colleagues are the [...]
Why you should stop trying to make your team like you February 16, 2016 You have just been appointed as a new manager, and you are determined to be the best of managers, one who is liked by everyone who works for them – just as you liked some of the managers you worked under. It's a mistake. Not becoming the best manager, that is, but the idea you need to [...]
Millennials told they should be saving £800 a month if they want a £30,000 a year income when they retire; millennials react with Kanye jokes and cat gifs February 16, 2016 Millennials are having a hard enough time saving up for a deposit on a house: now they're being told they should be putting £800 aside each month for their retirement. That's the amount that Rebecca Taylor, director at the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments, has said 25-year olds should be averaging every month for the [...]
Falanx Group’s John Blamire talks listing a shell company, intelligent fridges and going from army officer to entrepeneur February 15, 2016 I think I’d just been given one too many orders,” laughs John Blamire, founder of Falanx Group. The entrepreneur spent the first chunk of his career as an officer in the British Army, serving in Northern Ireland, Iraq and the Falklands. In 2001, he was responsible for creating a strategic-level intelligence unit in a high-risk [...]
Why modern managers need these five vital old-school skills February 9, 2016 Managers have been around for millennia. But even with this much collective experience, the Chartered Management Institute’s (CMI) research shows that four in five are still “accidental managers” – those that find themselves in the role without proper practice or training. Some insight into why is provided by the finalists of CMI’s Management Book of [...]
UK Waspi pensions campaign: The government must revisit changes to the state pension age that disadvantage women February 8, 2016 We in the SNP are not against equalisation of the state pension age; that’s not why we support the Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaign. It's perfectly fair for men and women to retire at the same age. However, the pace of the process and the lack of transitional arrangements make up the real [...]
What careers have the best prospects for recent graduates? Here are the sectors seeking out the most grads so far in 2016, but accounting and finance fails to make the top five February 8, 2016 With the cost of university education on the rise and the job market seemingly more competitive by the day, it pays (literally) for graduates to pick their profession with care. Online jobs website CV-Library has today revealed the sectors with the most graduate jobs on offer so far in 2016. Perhaps unsurprisingly, engineering takes the top spot [...]