City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? February 18, 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. Quadrant Real estate asset management and development company Quadrant has appointed a new associate partner from CBRE. Onder Atasayar joins from CBRE where he was responsible for developing the company’s portfolio valuation models and overseeing quarterly valuation of [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? February 17, 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. Fulcrum Asset Management Fulcrum Asset Management has poached its latest responsible investment associate from EY. Samriddhi Sharma departs the Big Four firm after holding the role of senior consultant in the sustainable finance team. Reporting to partner and chair Matt Roberts, Sharma will support [...]
UK government to set out plans for audit watchdog overhaul imminently after years of delays February 14, 2022 UK government ministers will set out their plans to reform regulation of the UK’s auditing industry within the coming weeks, after calls for an overhaul first emerged in 2018 in response to the collapse of UK construction contractor Carillion. The proposals are currently being circulated and are set to be signed off imminently, according to [...]
EY, Deloitte, KPMG, and PwC are the biggest employers of business grads, new figures show February 14, 2022 Business school grads are more likely to go into consulting, than any other industry, according to a survey of 300,000 business grads from OnlineU. More than a fifth (21.1 per cent) of business grads surveyed worked in consultancies, the figures show. Notably, the Big Four auditors alone employed more than 12 per cent of those [...]
EY to hire 1,300 new UK employees after launching climate focused EY Carbon business February 14, 2022 Big Four accountancy firm EY has set out plans to launch a new, climate-focused consultancy business which will see the firm hire 1,300 new UK employees. The auditor’s plans to launch its own ESG consultancy, EY Carbon, will see EY invest £100m, in line with plans to recruit 1,300 people over the next three years. [...]
ONS: Number of UK ‘high growth’ firms has fallen by 15 per cent since 2014 February 9, 2022 The number of UK firms considered to be “high growth” job creators has plummeted by 15 per cent between 2014 and 2020, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figures, compiled by Labour, showed that 14,190 firms were considered to be high growth at the end of 2014 and that this [...]
More economists warn of cost of living crunch’s drag on UK growth February 8, 2022 The squeeze on households’ living standards from the cost of living crunch will drag on the UK economy this year, reveals fresh forecasts published today. A triple whammy of Inflation topping seven per cent, a heavier tax burden and swelling energy bills is set to erode consumers’ real incomes, prompting a pull back in spending, [...]
Global Britain: £500bn Brexit boost and 5m jobs via supercharge of UK exports and new trade ties February 8, 2022 Supercharging UK exports may result in a £500bn Brexit boost and could create up to 5m new jobs, according to a group of business leaders. The Global Britain Commission, which was set up by former trade minister Liam Fox, has set out detail for a blueprint for Global Britain in a post-Brexit world. If Britain [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? February 4, 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. Guinness Global Investors Guinness Global Investors has hired a renewable energy specialist as its new head of sustainable infrastructure. David Freeder will lead the development of the firm’s broader strategy and investor offering in sustainable infrastructure and energy. After holding positions with Big Four [...]
Levelling down London will hamstring the rest of the country, report warns January 31, 2022 The levelling up agenda will hamstring the UK economy if it moves business outside of London, reveals a fresh study published today. The government will fail in its ambition to narrow regional inequalities by pushing to stimulate economic activity across the UK “at London’s expense,” according to consultancy EY. Choking London’s contribution to the British [...]