What private client FX offers entrepreneurs – Investec Comment: August 9, 2015 Most businesses with vulnerability to foreign exchange risk – whether they’re exporters or have subsidiaries overseas – will have arrangements in place to mitigate their exposure to sharp currency moves. But what about you as an individual? As business owners and entrepreneurs become more globally-mobile, they are more likely to have overseas investments, or [...]
Ashes 2015: England’s Stuart Broad pockets £2,500 prize money as player of the match August 8, 2015 England regained the Ashes in spectacular fashion on the third morning of the fourth Test at Trent Bridge, earning a £12,000 bonus in the process. Read more: Broad joy as he destroys Australia’s Ashes hope In just 39 minutes, the hosts took the three second innings wickets they needed to secure an insurmountable 3-1 lead in [...]
Broad joy as he destroys Australia’s Ashes hope August 7, 2015 England lead by 214 after seamer’s 8-15 helps skittle Aussies before lunch ENGLAND paceman Stuart Broad admitted his pride after he produced an extraordinary, career-defining display of 8-15 to give the hosts an iron grip on the Investec Ashes at Trent Bridge yesterday. Nottinghamshire’s Broad wrought havoc on his home ground, tearing through Australia’s batting [...]
Cook calls on players to be Ashes heroes August 6, 2015 CAPTAIN Alastair Cook has urged one of his England colleagues to write their name into Ashes folklore with a series-clinching contribution in the fourth Investec Test, which starts today at Trent Bridge. Seamer Stuart Broad and batsmen Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen have all ensured their places in national cricket history by starring in decisive [...]
Chris Tremlett’s Cricket Comment: Time for Broad to take the lead and give England vital early edge August 6, 2015 England's main concern, as they prepare for today’s fourth Ashes Test, will probably be ending their unhappy habit of following a victory with an immediate defeat. They fell into that trap at Lord’s, having won the first Test in Cardiff, so hopefully they can change that pattern and continue the momentum they built up [...]
Analyst Views: What do the latest results mean for Standard Chartered? August 5, 2015 IAN GORDON | INVESTEC “Standard Chartered has sharply underperformed sector peers, with the shares retreating by 17 per cent since peaking at 1,141p on 23 March. Our ‘hold’ recommendation and 970p RoE-g/CoE-g derived target price are maintained.” SANDY CHEN | CENKOS “We’re not exactly certain about how much to recalibrate our forecasts – but we’re [...]
Johnson talks up Anderson’s injury absence August 5, 2015 AUSTRALIA paceman Mitchell Johnson has warned England they will miss attack spearhead James Anderson whoever replaces him in the fourth Investec Ashes Test, which starts tomorrow. Johnson also called on the tourists to respond to last week’s eight-wicket drubbing at Edgbaston by levelling the series at Trent Bridge, in a match he regards as “a [...]
City Moves for 04 August 2015 | Who’s switching jobs August 3, 2015 Legal & General Investment Management Andrzej Pioch has been promoted to co-fund manager in the investment management company’s multi-index team. He joined Legal & General Investment Management in July 2014 as fund manager from Aviva Investors. Argo Group International Holdings The underwriter of specialty insurance and reinsurance products has appointed Steve McGill as global head [...]
Fragile Wood on track to replace Anderson in fourth Ashes Test August 3, 2015 ENGLAND expect paceman Mark Wood to replace the injured James Anderson in the fourth Investec Ashes Test against Australia this week despite lingering fitness concerns of his own. Wood took part in two bowling sessions yesterday at Trent Bridge as he nurses an ankle problem that kept him out of the eight-wicket victory in the [...]
Why I left the City to found a business – Investec Comment August 2, 2015 What makes a barrister, with a comfortable salary and a promising career, leave her job and risk everything by starting her own company? It’s a question – or a version of it – that many in the City with an entrepreneurial spirit will have asked themselves. I won’t pretend that it wasn’t a big decision [...]