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Pooley title defence falls short September 20, 2011 CYCLING: Britain’s Emma Pooley, the defending champion, was beaten into bronze medal position at the World Road Championships in Copenhagen yesterday. Germany’s Judith Arndt won gold in the time trial and New Zealand’s Linda Willumsen silver, with Pooley third, less than 30 seconds behind Arndt.
Trescothick in award landmark September 20, 2011 CRICKET: Somerset captain Marcus Trescothick has become the first man to win the annual FTI most valuable player award for a second time. The former England opener hit more than 2,500 runs this year in all competitions and held 38 slip catches. He previously won the award in 2009.
Brevan fund returns $2bn to its clients September 20, 2011 BREVAN Howard, the hedge fund run by Alan Howard, is planning to return $2bn (£1.27bn) to investors to fulfil a deal with its clients, who want to cap the size of the firm’s flagship fund at $25bn. The size of the fund currently stands at $26.9bn, after it made gains of 6.2 per cent last [...]
Investor piles pressure on troubled UBS September 20, 2011 EMBATTLED bank UBS faces new pressure after its largest shareholder broke its silence to criticise the failures that led to the $2.3bn (£1.5bn) “rogue” trading scandal. The Government of Singapore Investment Corp, which has a 6.4 per cent stake in UBS, has met senior managers and urged them to take “firm” action to restore confidence, [...]
Gruebel bids to overhaul investment banking arm September 20, 2011 UBS chief executive Oswald Gruebel will this week ask directors to back plans for a deep overhaul of its investment banking division. The board begins a two-day meeting in Singapore tomorrow although it is understood the sessions were arranged before the “rogue” trading crisis broke. UBS is under pressure to scale down, ringfence or even [...]
Headhunters circling talent at Swiss bank September 20, 2011 BANKS are eyeing the possibility of poaching UBS’s most talented staff, taking advantage of the uncertainty plaguing its investment bank. Recruiters have told City A.M. that there is strong interest in snapping up rising stars from the bank, where this year’s bonus pool for its UK equity capital markets (ECM) team is likely to take a [...]
NAB playing hard to get with Lloyds bidder NBNK September 20, 2011 NATIONAL Australia Bank (NAB) has slapped down suggestions that it could rush headlong into a deal with NBNK Investments, the buy-out vehicle led by Gary Hoffman and Lord Levene. NAB is in talks with NBNK over selling its UK business – the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks – but yesterday insisted that it is in no [...]
United Tech nears all-cash bid to take over Goodrich September 20, 2011 AMERICAN conglomerate United Technologies is negotiating final terms of an all-cash acquisition of aircraft components maker Goodrich with the goal of reaching a deal in the next few days, people familiar with the matter said last night. An acquisition of Goodrich, which has a market capitalisation of about $14bn (£8.9bn), would be the biggest deal [...]
Hedgies fail to beat falling share prices September 20, 2011 MOST hedge fund strategies were wrong-footed by plunging stock markets in August, according to data released yesterday. The EDHEC Risk Institute, which tracks the performance of hedge funds, said managers following a short-selling strategy were the only ones to post significant gains last month, with an average return of 6.97 per cent. Short sellers benefited from [...]
Siemens does flip-flop over SocGen funds September 20, 2011 ENGINEERING group Siemens fluctuated between denial and uncertainty yesterday, as it addressed reports that it had withdrawn more than €500m (£435m) in cash deposits from Société Générale and moved it to the European Central Bank (ECB). Shares in the French bank fell 6.6 per cent by lunchtime yesterday after it was named as the institution [...]
