‘The government aren’t the experts’: Liberal Democrats vow to push back controversial Pension Schemes Bill
The presentation guru gives his top five tips for visual communication June 1, 2011 LOVE or hate giving PowerPoint presentations, they are a fact of office life for most of us. And often being good at it distinguishes you from your colleagues. To help you along, we’ve selected five of the most useful tips from Dave Paradi’s book: 102 Tips to Communicate More Effectively on PowerPoint. 1. Tell a [...]
REVEALED: HOW RICHARD DESMOND FIRST DRUMMED UP NEW BUSINESS June 1, 2011 EVERYONE has to start somewhere. Even Richard Desmond, the media baron with a personal fortune of £950m who bought Channel Five last July with some spare change he found down the back of his sofa. Desmond started on the road to founding his media empire early – aged 13, in fact, when he took his [...]
Allowing the securitisation sector revival to flourish June 1, 2011 AS the US and European financial sectors continue to collectively dust themselves off after the financial crash of 2008, it is clear that securitisation is vital for market stability and for economic growth – allowing for more efficient use of capital, higher liquidity and more stable risk management. According to the Bank for International Settlements, [...]
TRUST IS MOVING FORWARD FOR ASSET BACKED SECURITIES June 1, 2011 FOLLOWING the onset of the financial crisis in 2008 – and the resulting loss of confidence in the performance of Asset Backed Securities (ABS) – distressed or forced sales led to depressed valuations. Yet the assets themselves suffered few actual defaults – in fact mostly performing as expected. It was the forced selling, or the [...]
Tough capital requirements from Basel III June 1, 2011 LAST year, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) announced new, stricter regulatory capital requirements for banks. This proclamation marked the adoption of several revisions to the regulatory capital framework – collectively known as Basel III – that the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) had previously proposed to address some of the main issues that [...]
Take a trip into PowerPoint hell: slides you dread to see June 1, 2011 DID you know that PowerPoint presentations can be a matter of life and death? Yale professor and visual communication expert Edward Tufte believes it is. Nasa’s use of the technology, he claims, led to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 that killed seven astronauts. Vital information got lost in the blur of slides, arrows [...]
How to triple your chances of winning the job June 1, 2011 TODAY’S job market is one of the most competitive we’ve ever seen. Good job opportunities attract literally hundreds of online applications. Often every one of these lists the same high levels of skills and qualifications. Just how can you stand out and win the job you want in this context? Especially when it is clear [...]
Foodie heaven with summer cookery books June 1, 2011 OOOZING summer puddings with fresh forest berries, flame grilled juicy sausages, vibrant crunchy leaf salads and jugs of fragrant fruity Pimms, sipped slowly over balmy evenings. So much of summer is about the food. And, as the holidays approach, culinary enthusiasts are already scanning the cookbooks on offer to see what new treats they can [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS June 1, 2011 BEACH PARTY AT THE GORING Having got the Royal Wedding out of the way, the Goring Hotel in Victoria – base camp for the Middletons during those heady days in April – is letting its hair down by creating a beach and bar in its garden. Basil Charles, who has spent a lifetime serving the [...]
The docks that you don’t have to dock with June 1, 2011 THE annoying thing with docks for MP3 players is how problematic and fragile those multi-pin docking connectors can be. Much easier if you don’t have to connect at all, which is what the latest generation of wireless docks and speakers enable. Bluetooth speaker systems have been around a little while but in items like Soundfreaq’s [...]
