CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 27, 2011 CB Richard Ellis The commercial real estate adviser has appointed Sir Michael Lyons and Sir Andrew Foster as strategic advisers to strengthen the government & infrastructure team’s expertise in public sector assets and infrastructure. Foster, a former chief executive of the Audit Commission, is currently deputy chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada. Lyons, who [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 26, 2011 AXA Investment Managers The asset management company has appointed Lisa O’Connor as European head of consultant relations, reporting to Tim Gardener, global head of consultant relations, in the London office. In her new role, O’Connor will focus on developing AXA IM’s consultant relationships throughout the UK and Europe. O’Connor, who has more than 12 years’ [...]
DEALMAKER OF THE YEAR June 23, 2011 Recessions are when reputations are made, they say, and that has been true in the world of fund managers. While some have battened down the hatches, the ones on our list have seen opportunity in crisis, and pushed ahead with flotations and expansions, or have just taken the chance to expand. All are stars in [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 22, 2011 Barclays Wealth Paul Burd has been appointed as head of business services for Barclays Wealth Operations and head of operations, Glasgow. Most recently, Burd was general manager of worldwide securities at JP Morgan, based in Cape Town, following previous roles at JP Morgan including managing director of the investment bank’s London Investment Management Operations team. [...]
BEST OF THE BROKERS June 21, 2011 COMMERZBANK Deutsche Bank reinitiates coverage of Germany’s second largest bank with a “buy” rating and a target price of €4.60, reflecting the group’s strong position in core German banking products. The broker sees the main profit driver in the next 18 months as the normalisation of loan losses and execution on cost saving potential, after [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 19, 2011 Co-operative Bank The Co-operative Bank has appointed Richard France (left) and Chris Wilson to lead the Corporate and Business Relationship Banking team and the Corporate Banking Specialist Sectors operations respectively. France was previously head of the Bank’s nationwide corporate banking centres and Wilson led the firm’s Commercial Real Estate, Public Sector and Treasury Sales activities. [...]
CITY VIEWS: WILL EASYJET’S MOVE HELP TO EASE RUNWAY CAPACITY PROBLEMS? June 16, 2011 SEAN SMITH | AXA “No, Southend is too far from London, there isn’t very good rail linking and it is pretty hard to travel to from central London. I don’t think people would want to travel that far.” MICHAEL KING | JR CLARE “Yes, it’s not like it could make it any worse. It would [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 13, 2011 HSBC Alternative Investments The division responsible for hedge funds, private equity and real estate offerings across the HSBC group has appointed Simon Jennings as managing director, head of private equity. Jennings has more than 22 years of private equity investment experience. Most recently, he co-founded and ran the private equity business at UBS Wealth Management, [...]
Citi sells £1bn in private equity assets to Axa June 8, 2011 US BANK Citigroup has agreed to sell a portfolio of private equity assets to Axa Private Equity for $1.7bn (£1bn), the latest move by the lender to unload non-core assets. For Paris-based Axa, the deal is part of a series of acquisitions of private equity investments originally owned by other investors, including the purchase of a $1.9bn [...]
Resolution to return £500m to investors June 7, 2011 LIFE insurance asset buyer Resolution yesterday pledged to return £500m cash to shareholders over the next year, starting with £250m of share buybacks that kick off today. Resolution, which is restructuring life insurance books bought from Friends Provident, Axa and Bupa, will return the second £250m to shareholders in the first half of 2012 after [...]