Changing profession could inject life into your career October 31, 2012 A RECENT survey of 1,500 professionals by the recruitment firm Marks Sattin found that 52 per cent anticipate changing jobs within the next year. And some want to go further. A complete change in career at some point in a professional life is increasingly normal. Of course, people switch for a variety of reasons: they [...]
Jobs of the week October 31, 2012 GLOBAL EQUITY SALES SPECIALIST LONDON £150k-£250k pa, plus bonus An independent private equity house is looking for a global equities specialist. This is a high-level position and only experienced candidates need apply. http://jobs.cityam.com/job/5600 CAPITAL MARKETS INTERNAL AUDITOR LONDON £55k-£70k pa A major investment bank seeks a senior manager to join its rates and credit internal [...]
Financial regulation is worsening Europe’s demographic time bomb October 31, 2012 THERE is more to Europe’s current challenges than debt, stagnation and unemployment. There is an elephant in the room that could become the biggest issue of all: an ageing population. Europe’s baby boom started in the 1950s and the proportion of retirees relative to the working population, therefore, is beginning to rise. This will inevitably [...]
Hurricane Sandy has stormed through the race but not blown it off course October 31, 2012 AFTER well-publicised but ineffectual interventions by both Donald Trump and celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, this year’s “October Surprise” looked poised to be as meaningless to the presidential race as the “revelation” four years ago that Barack Obama’s aunt was living in the US illegally. But with Hurricane Sandy slamming into the East Coast, Mother Nature [...]
The real reasons why living costs are still going up October 31, 2012 ED MILIBAND is said to want to fight the next election on the issue of living standards. This week a report by the Resolution Foundation gave him the intellectual ammunition he needed. It highlighted how income growth for middle and low income households will be constrained by technological and global pressures and the continued structural [...]
After energy minister John Hayes criticised UK wind farms, should Britain build more? October 31, 2012 YES Clare McNeil Onshore and offshore wind power is a hugely important source of future growth for the UK. Onshore wind alone provides almost 9,000 jobs and boosts the economy by £548m per year. It is also one of the cheapest forms of renewable energy around – costs will be on a par with fossil [...]
Rapid responses October 31, 2012 Heseltine’s project [Re: A corporatist economic growth plan that won’t rescue UK Plc, yesterday] It is good the government is exploring ways to support growth. But Michael Heseltine’s solutions, including greater state intervention and regulation, are unlikely to help businesses. Better access to funding and national insurance holidays, for example, would be of more practical [...]
How the tech giants measure up October 31, 2012 What on earth have they been up to recently? Anything to write home about? It’s been a whirlwind few months for Microsoft, with Steve Ballmer (rightly) saying his company’s bet on Windows 8, and its emphasis on touch-screen technology, represents an “all in” moment. It has brought out new desktop, tablet and mobile phone operating [...]
Zacharanda and me: the true story of an accidental YouTube sensation October 31, 2012 IT WAS on the eve of Obama’s 2008 election victory that a friend of mine, quite inadvertently, became a YouTube “sensation”. Adam Smith, who at the time worked as a reporter for the Birmingham Mail, had flown himself to Miami to campaign for Barack Obama (because Miami was: “where the party’s at. I was hardly [...]
FTSE 100 higher as US stockmarket prepares to open October 31, 2012 The large cap index was trading marginally higher this morning, led by an upswing in mining stocks thanks to an uptick of base metal prices. Following two days of closure, the US stockmarket is preparing to open today. Airline group IAG was the top blue-chip riser this morning, while utility stocks and Barclays made up [...]
