Why chartered institutes can help to boost your career November 4, 2009 SOME name changes are only cosmetic, but for the financial services industry, the transformation of the Securities & Investments Institute into the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) could improve the careers of many in the City. The body, which has over 40,000 members including stockbrokers, investment advisors, portfolio managers and wealth managers and [...]
CAREERS CLINIC November 4, 2009 RICHARD REID, PINNACLE PROACTIVE I’m stuck in a rut in my job, but don’t want to leave my company at the moment. What can I do to feel more enthusiastic about my working life? THE most important thing you can do is to speak to someone – your manager, an HR person, even colleagues. Suffering [...]
Evil festers under a glass dome November 4, 2009 UNDER THE DOMEBY STEPHEN KINGHodder & Stoughton £19.99THE MASTER of the slow-burn thriller about the bad things that happen when people are trapped together in one place has found another intriguing way to explore the nature of human evil. This is a big, invisible, and deeply sinister dome that descends over the town of Chester’s [...]
Pork of the town November 4, 2009 I LOVE a good sausage – who doesn’t, really? So, in honour of British Sausage Week (a noble Week if ever there was one), I decided to pay tribute to the nation’s favourite pork product by going along to Boisdale of Bishopsgate to learn to make sausages with chef Neil Churchill. Boisdale is big on [...]
WHERE TO GO FOR A TOP SAUSAGE November 4, 2009 HG WALTERPremium butchers supplying Hibiscus, Arbutus and top schools in London. Their sausage maker has been making the same traditional recipe for 30 years using free-range Surrey pigs for juicy, fatty cuts of belly and shoulder, plus rock salt and white pepper. The sausages are 80-85 per cent meat, depending on the presence of leek [...]
THE MOMENT HAS ARRIVED November 4, 2009 JEFF GALVINWE FOLLOW THE GALVIN BROTHERS AS THEY COUNT DOWN TO THE OPENING OF THEIR NEW CITY RESTAURANTIN 14 days time we open Galvin La Chapelle and Galvin Cafe de Luxe. Wednesday 18 November will see the culmination of two years of planning and preparation and 25 weeks of building and design. It feels like [...]
THE LONDON REPORT November 4, 2009 LONDON’S leading shares ended 1.4 per cent higher yesterday, boosted by a rebound from miners and banks, with retailers Next and Marks & Spencer also higher after posting forecast-beating figures. At the close, the FTSE 100 was up 70.68 points at 5,107.89, recouping all of Tuesday’s losses when the index fell 1.3 per cent to [...]
THE NEW YORK REPORT November 4, 2009 US stocks mostly eked out a gain yesterday, pulling back from the day’s rally after the Federal Reserve reiterated its intent to keep rates low, but gave investors few new reasons to boost holdings. Stocks pushed higher in the hour following the FOMC statement, after the Fed kept its benchmark federal funds rate unchanged in [...]
Inverse ETFs are proving to be the ideal tool for bearish day traders November 4, 2009 EARLIER this week, Deutsche Bank launched the first European-listed exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks the inverse daily performance of an Asian stock market – Hong Kong’s Hang Seng. The investment bank’s ETF division, DB X-trackers, also announced that it has launched four new European sector ETFs on short daily indices, bringing the number of the [...]
INVESTORS FLOOD BACK TO PROPERTY November 4, 2009 NIZAM HAMIDHEAD OF SALES STRATEGY, iSHARES EUROPE REAL estate has suffered badly during the financial crisis and the very thought of sub-prime was enough to turn even the steeliest investors away from investing in property. But real estate is now a steadier environment and its attractiveness has been helped by its low correlations to other [...]
