Investec bank profits surge as legacy of financial crisis fades November 20, 2014 Anglo-South African bank Investec reported strong profits for the six months to September yesterday, overcoming a fall in the rand. Impairments fell by more than 20 per cent on the year, and are down to one-fifth of their £320m level seen three years ago, as the bank moves on from the financial crisis. Pre-tax operating profits [...]
Investec banker brushes off “complete criminals” insult from PR guru Lord Bell October 14, 2014 A Senior Investec banker last night shrugged off insults made last week by PR guru Lord Bell. Bell, who counts Investec among his firm Bell Pottinger’s clients, claimed bankers were “complete criminals”. But Investec’s head of investment banking Andrew Pinder is happy to move on, simply referring to the comments as “an interesting view”. “He [...]
Shares down at industrials after Investec downgrades 15 firms October 13, 2014 INVESTEC sent share prices tumbling yesterday after it downgraded several UK industrials companies yesterday, blaming the deteriorating economic environment in Europe. The bank said that in light of recent profit warnings in the industrials sector, it had identified vulnerable companies, downgrading 15 of the most affected. Investec said it had focused on those with “significant [...]
Former Investec banker joins the crowd(funders) with CrowdShed September 22, 2014 Crowdfunding is the trend that just keeps giving and now one of the City’s own is striking out of banking and launching his own crowdfunding platform called CrowdShed. The person in question is ex-Investec, ex-Liberum investment manager Henry Freeman (pictured) and having handed in his notice at Investec almost exactly a year ago – his [...]
Take Mirsaale and Saptapadi against the field in the Investec Zebra Stakes June 7, 2014 RACE 6 4.50pm Investec Zebra Stakes FAVOURITES have a terrible record in the Investec Zebra Stakes with just one obliging in the last 10 years. Today’s renewal looks as tricky as ever. One trend in recent times is that the higher-rated runners are winning. The last three victors all carried at least 9st 5lb and [...]
Arctic Feeling well set in repeat bid for the Voyage By Investec Stakes June 7, 2014 RACE 7 5.25pm Voyage By Investec Stakes THE VOYAGE By Investec Stakes is also known as the ‘Get Out of Jail Stakes’ and bettors across the land will be hoping to extricate themselves from a punting hole by picking the winner of this sixfurlong handicap. Just two winners in the last 10 runnings have been [...]
Tarfasha primed to lead home Sheikh Hamdan Investec Oaks one-two June 5, 2014 BILL ESDAILE PREVIEWS TODAY’S INVESTEC OAKS THE JOB of clerk of the course can be difficult at the best of times, but Andrew Cooper, the man in charge of producing the best possible surface for this weekend’s Investec Derby Festival, must have been tearing out the few hairs he has left over the past fortnight. [...]
The Investec Epsom Derby 2014: What does it take to win? June 4, 2014 The world's greatest flat race – The Investec Derby 2014 – is almost here. How does it feel to have the winner of this great Epsom race? What kind of horse does it take? Watch The Investec Derby Film featuring Channel 4's Clare Balding and Nick Luck along with Investec Derby winning trainer [...]
O’Brien set to saddle four in Investec Derby as he bids for historic hat-trick May 29, 2014 PATRICK CALLAGHAN REPORTS FROM YESTERDAY’S ‘BREAKFAST WITH THE STARS’ EVENT AT EPSOM NEVER in the 234 years since the Investec Derby was first run on the Epsom Downs has a trainer won the race for three straight years. But Aidan O’Brien looks set to run four horses from his powerful Ballydoyle stable as he bids [...]
Francis Maude brings Investec boss and angel investor onto Big Lottery Fund board May 28, 2014 Cabinet Officer minister Francis Maude has appointed three new board members to the Big Lottery Fund, the body that distributes money raised by the National Lottery. Managing director of Investec Asset Management, Elizabeth Passey, Perdita Fraser, an angel investor and partner at consultancy firm SJ Fraser & Co, and David Isaac CBE, a partner at [...]