Preparation does not need be a full-time pursuit September 18, 2011 Q&A: London 2012 TIME TO GET READY Q. We run a small company and do not officially have a specific person or department who is looking after the logistics of the business during the Games. Where should we start? And is there help available? I want us to be prepared, but do not have the [...]
House prices 60pc lower in suburbia September 18, 2011 LONDON workers save an average of 60 per cent on house prices by living an hour’s rail journey away from the capital. New research shows the typical £4,400 annual cost of a 60-minute commute to the centre of London is dwarfed by the money saved from lower property costs. The Halifax study showed average house [...]
The millionaire towns in capital commuter belt September 18, 2011 HALF of the houses on the market in commuter town Beaconsfield, Bucks, are valued at over £1m, a survey out today from primelocation.com reveals. At 47 per cent, the town has the highest proportion of seven-figure homes in the country. Indeed, the top fifteen towns with the highest percentage of million pound houses are all [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS September 18, 2011 American Appraisal The global valuation firm has appointed Emily Hadley as director and head of its debt advisory practice in the UK to advise banking, loan servicing, hedge fund and corporate clients on their debt structures. Hadley joins from Barclays Capital Mortgage Servicing, where she was vice president of special servicing. Prior to Barclays Capital, [...]
BEST OF THE BROKERS September 18, 2011 KESA Arden Partners rates the electrical goods retailer as neutral after a “dismal” first quarter trading update and cut the target price to 90p. It said it had little confidence in either the group’s earnings visibility, because of uncertainty about the future of Comet and Eurozone worries, or in the management team. Arden cut its [...]
Stocks to rise on Fed expectations September 18, 2011 AN apparent uptick in confidence over Europe’s future is set to take stock markets higher this morning, underscored by Wall Street closing up on Friday for a fifth successive day, combined with hopes of further impending action from the Federal Reserve later this week. GFT quotes two-way prices on stock indices around the clock, even [...]
WALL STREET WEEK AHEAD September 18, 2011 WALL Street hopes for more Fed action and clear signs European leaders will follow through on their new urgency to tackle the Eurozone debt crisis if US stocks are to build on their best week since early July. Investors expect the Federal Reserve to take steps to pull down long-term interest rates when policymakers meet [...]
The dragon who came from the Aussie Outback September 18, 2011 RICHARD Farleigh is probably best known for his appearances on BBC’s Dragons’ Den. He should, however, be known for being a foster care kid who went on to be one of the world’s richest hedge fund managers in the 1990s, and then a successful entrepreneurial investor with brands like Net-a-Porter and Reggae Reggae Sauce to [...]
ALTERNATIVE FUNDING FOR ENTREPRENEURS September 18, 2011 ASK entrepreneurs to name the biggest challenge they face in expanding their business and I would expect most to say raising the finance they need to grow. Whether it is thousands or millions, generating the capital required to expand will at some stage be on the agenda of every ambitious business. As a country we [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF September 18, 2011 MAKING MENTORS OF ENTREPRENEURS A new campaign from Virgin Media Pioneers has been launched to address the challenges faced by aspiring entrepreneurs. The campaign plans to make mentors of experienced business owners such as Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, the founder of The Black Farmer and Joe Cohen, the founder and CEO of Seatwave. The programme will be [...]
