Homeless shelter investment firm plans £250m London float September 7, 2020 Homeless accommodation provider Home Reit has this morning announced that it will float on the London Stock Exchange market next month. The trust, which seeks to invest in accommodation for homeless people across the UK, is looking to raise £250m from the initial public offering. The first real estate trust to float in London since [...]
Private equity firms eye listed companies as economy starts to reopen July 11, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has left a number of UK-listed companies scrambling for cash, with private equity firms tempted to swoop as the crisis develops. PE firms are eyeing opportunities as they move to deploy more of their dry powder into public entities as the economy starts to reopen in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. [...]
Europe pushes back against London bid to trim market trading hours July 1, 2020 A coalition of European bourses has said plans for shorter trading hours by London bodies would not be beneficial for investors or markets. The Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) said shorter hours would be a move in the wrong direction. It instead advocated for adopting other measures to improve workplace culture, such as increasing [...]
Investment industry bodies urge Euronext to call time on long trading hours June 30, 2020 Two investment industry bodies have called on Euronext to trim its trading day by 90 minutes, as the exchange’s consultation on cutting trading hours draws to a close. The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and the Investment Association (IA) today called on the pan-European exchange to cut its trading day to seven hours, [...]
The City View: ‘Cowardly business chiefs must speak up against the lockdown’ – Luke Johnson June 3, 2020 In this episode Christian is joined by entrepreneur and investor Luke Johnson, a high-profile critic of the government’s lockdown policy. Subscribe to The City View Podcast: Apple / Google / Spotify / RSS Johnson says that many business leaders agree with his position in private, but are too afraid to voice their own concerns publicly. He says the lockdown is “dystopian” – [...]
Q&A with Stefan Allesch-Taylor: How entrepreneurs can respond to coronavirus June 1, 2020 Professor Stefan Allesch-Taylor CBE is a broadcaster, philanthropist, Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship and Fellow at King’s College London. How do you think the pandemic will affect entrepreneurs? Is it a crisis or an opportunity? It’s tough to avoid the obvious here. For some a crisis, for others an opportunity. But unlike most economic [...]
What’s happening to dividends and what next? 11 questions answered April 23, 2020 Nick Kirrage, co-head of the Value team, and Sean Markowicz, part of the Research and Analytics team, chatted with us about the future of dividends and buybacks. With so many investors reliant on dividends to boost their income or support their retirement we wanted know what’s happening now, whether investors should be concerned and what [...]
Coronavirus: What does entertaining look like in a post-pandemic world? April 8, 2020 What will life be like after the Coronavirus? What will restaurants be like? What kind of holidays will we have? Who will be going to concerts? I’m pretty sure it’s not what you expect… how do I know? Well, at Ten Group – the world’s most successful lifestyle concierge service (“TENG” on the London Stock [...]
New Bank governor seems open to battle of ideas March 5, 2020 Andrew Bailey will take the governor’s seat at the Bank of England later this month amid a global health emergency that threatens to undermine the world economy and shape the Bank’s course of action for many months to come. So pressing is the issue that Bailey has effectively started work early, telling the Treasury Select [...]
IG’s June Felix: Shorter trading hours would make London ‘less competitive’ February 23, 2020 The head of one of Britain’s largest trading platforms has become one of the most senior industry figures to speak out against proposals to cut trading hours in London, saying it would not be “helpful” for the City and could make it “less competitive globally”. June Felix, whose company IG Group offers 24-hour trading to [...]