A fight through the fund acronym jumble March 30, 2011 UCITS IV, or to give it its full title, the Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive IV, comes into force in July. A set of EU directives aimed at allowing collective investment schemes to operate freely throughout the EU, they try to harmonise financial regulation throughout Europe. The aim of the original Ucits [...]
PERSONAL FINANCE NEWS March 30, 2011 OFGEM FORCES NOTICE CHANGES Ofgem has responded to pressure from consumers to force energy suppliers to give increased notice of rate changes. Suppliers have been ordered to give their customers 30 days notice before implementing price hikes. Geared towards protecting consumers from shock utility bill increases, the energy industry regulator Ofgem has issued new changes [...]
The clock is ticking to keep your savings from the taxman March 30, 2011 IF YOU are in the 20 per cent of Londoners who, according to research from Fidelity, put off getting their individual savings account (Isa) to the last week of the financial year, now is the time to shelter your savings from taxation. You will have to act quickly to pick up the best deals. Of [...]
Investing in fledglings is now more appealing March 30, 2011 THE Budget increased the tax breaks available for the enterprise investment scheme (EIS) and sorted out some of the legislation involved in venture capital trusts (VCT). This is making both look appealing to investors, especially those desperate to escape the burden of the 50p tax rate. Here’s your guide to what they are and how [...]
Nowadays you need to monitor your online presentation just as closely March 30, 2011 THE online you is important – 70 per cent of human resources (HR) professionals have rejected potential candidates because of their online information, according to a Microsoft survey. Or put more positively, 86 per cent said that good online information could work in a candidate’s favour. This makes having a clean reputation on the internet [...]
How to be the perfect interviewee March 30, 2011 GET THE JOB YOU REALLY WANT BY JAMES CAAN Portfolio Penguin, £12.99 IF YOU were going to create a parody of an inspirational business book, it would look a lot like Get The Job You Really Want (the “really” is actually underlined on the book’s cover). It has all the hallmarks of an inspirational business [...]
ODD JOBS March 30, 2011 I’M FROM Jersey and my first job was with a menswear business that my brother-in-law and I formed in the late 1980s. Shortly before I sold the business, I met some traders who opened my mind to London and the markets. I joined the London Commodity Exchange in 1996 to trade coffee in the days [...]
Celebrate Mother’s Day with a luxurious high tea March 30, 2011 LANDMARK LONDON The grand Marylebone hotel is well-known for its splendidly lavish Sunday brunch buffet served in the vast atrium of the Winter Garden, with everything from pastries and salads to roast dishes, and a sweeping array of desserts topped off with a chocolate fountain. As an added treat for Mother’s Day, you can mix [...]
Industrial cool and botanical garden chic March 30, 2011 Going Out HOT on the heels of his downstairs bar at Polpo, Russell Norman’s new site Spuntino on Rupert Street gives a Lower East Side flavour to their rustic Italian style. The look is nineteenth century industrial Brooklyn, with wire caged filament bulbs, a pewter-topped bar, mosaic tiles and exposed brickwork. Don’t expect to see [...]
OUT OF OFFICE March 30, 2011 DALI COMES TO THE CITY Dali lovers rejoice: London is to be graced with an outdoor installation of Dali’s Alice in Wonderland monument, previously unseen in the UK. Nearly five metres high, the bronze piece was conceived in 1977 and has travelled the world since 2010. Its appearance coincides with an indoor exhibition in Norman [...]
