How a red tie curries favour at Santander June 21, 2012 The men in red ties appeared to have taken over the Ladies’ Smoking Room at the St Pancras Renaissance hotel the other evening as Santander UK hosted its very pleasant summer drinks party. All the Santander men present wore red ties, although a spokesman yesterday said there had been no order to do so. The [...]
14 year old takes Bank of America prize June 21, 2012 BANK of America Merrill Lynch’s Student Presentation Skills prize 2012 has gone to 14 year old Wahida Tasnim, after the panel heard her vehement speech on climate change. Tim Loughton MP, parliamentary under secretary of state for children and families, who opened the event said: “We were all thoroughly impressed by the high standard of [...]
WOOTTON’S ON TOP OF THE WORLD June 21, 2012 ONE hundred people, including the Lord Mayor’s daughter Sophie Wootton (pictured), took part in an abseil down the side of the Lloyd’s building for the Lord Mayor’s Appeal on behalf of the Trauma Unit at the Royal London Hospital.
WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 21, 2012 Osborne Clarke Sue Gold has joined the law firm as a partner in its privacy and data protection team. She joins from the Walt Disney Corporation, where she was principal counsel for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Gold has over 15 years’ experience in data protection and previously worked for five years at UBS. LV [...]
BEST of the BROKERS June 21, 2012 BRAMMER Espirito Santo has upgraded the support services firm from “sell” to “neutral” with a target price of 268p, saying that although risks remain, there are improved rewards associated. The broker has downgraded its 2012 earnings per share forecast by eight per cent and fair value by 11 per cent, but says the firm has [...]
FTSE pares back gains after China’s weakness punctures Eurozone relief June 21, 2012 BRITAIN’S leading share index dropped back yesterday, snapping a four-session winning streak on falls in heavyweight commodity stocks which were hit by fresh signs of economic weakness in China and concerns over growth in the United States. Energy stocks and miners were the biggest blue chip casualties, with the two sectors particularly sensitive to the [...]
Worst day in three weeks for US market June 21, 2012 US stocks posted the worst day in three weeks yesterday on mounting evidence that slowing manufacturing growth worldwide threatened corporate profits. Shares of energy and materials companies led declines as commodity prices fell. US crude futures slipped below $80 a barrel for the first time since October and the S&P energy sector index lost 4 [...]
Gove’s exam reforms will confront wasted potential in British schools June 21, 2012 OUR EXAM system should be up there with the best in the world. It should push bright kids and be renowned for its academic rigour. At the moment, GCSEs simply don’t do that. Every year, GCSE results day is accompanied by accusations of “dumbing down” and respect for them is diminishing among employers and universities, [...]
Unlikely pairings of demons and classics hold lessons for timid politicians June 21, 2012 NO ONE will ever produce a film called David Cameron: Vampire Hunter. Abraham Lincoln, on the other hand, got a Hollywood blockbuster this week that reinvents his life as a fight to the undeath. Lincoln’s cod-historical battle with soulless, slave-owning bloodsuckers adapts a mash-up biography/monster novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, whose back catalogue of left-field bestsellers [...]
Even the ultra rich are struggling to keep their wealth June 21, 2012 FOLLOWING one of the most volatile periods in the last 15 years, the aggregate investable wealth of high net worth individuals (HNWI) declined by 1.7 per cent last year – the first fall since 2008. This came out of the latest research from the World Wealth Report, published this week by Capgemini and RBC Wealth [...]
