Close Brothers grows assets under management to £16.6bn January 21, 2022 Close Brothers' asset management arm secures £1bn of new client capital in just five months as markets ticked upwards.
The A-Z of wine: This week, A is for… Assyrtiko January 21, 2022 How do you pronounce it? Ah-seer-tee-co What is it, then? A white grape variety from a land blessed with a beautiful Mediterranean climate, an age-old wine culture, and a wealth of native (and often unpronounceable) grape varieties that make genuinely outstanding wines. Also known as Greece. Best known for wines from the striking volcanic island [...]
On The Market anticipates full-year profits following rebranding January 21, 2022 Property portal service On The Market has announced that its adjusted operating profit for the full-year is currently ahead of expectations.
The Works has ‘record’ Christmas as it beats pre-pandemic levels January 21, 2022 The Works reported a revenue hike this morning, up 30.6 per cent, and increasing 17.9 per cent compared to pre-pandemic performance.
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? January 21, 2022 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. CISI The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) has confirmed that its long serving CEO Simon Culhane will step down. Handing over the reins in September, Culhane will depart the top role after 18 years. Culhane, who grew CISI’s [...]
The left’s polarising piety is its own worst enemy in the politics of climate January 21, 2022 Throughout much of the English speaking world, climate change is a politically polarising issue. In the United States, Canada and Australia, the left favours action while the right opposes it. How lucky we are that this is not the case in Britain. Here, more than a decade of Conservative government has seen the introduction of [...]
Sadiq Khan is fighting London’s pollution problem but it’s the capital’s infrastructure that must be the priority January 21, 2022 Last week, millions of Londoners were advised to stay indoors – this time not because of a Covid-19 lockdown, but because pollution in the capital was at the highest possible level. For a country supposedly leading the way in net zero climate action, this is an alarming indication of how far its capital still needs [...]
UK brands unprepared for third-party cookie phaseout January 21, 2022 With new privacy updates from Apple and Google coming into force, as well as a deluge of data surfacing from new digital sources, UK marketers are facing a challenging 2022.
Exclusive: UK businesses making strides in quantum computing despite the technology being considered “overhyped” January 21, 2022 New research of UK business decision makers has revealed that 55 per cent of companies think that quantum computing – a type of computing that uses quantum mechanics so that it can perform certain types of computation more efficiently than a regular computer – is an overhyped technology.
Online school has been a blemish for kids learning but hybrid could be a safety net January 21, 2022 Earlier this week, Boris Johnson announced kids would once again be free to take off their masks while at school. But with the Omicron variant still sweeping through the country, some schools have defied the Prime Minister and will keep the rules in place. The uncertainty all of us have had to live through has [...]
