Golf Comment: Spieth overtakes Fowler as America’s bright hope March 16, 2015 THE LAST few tournaments leading up the first Major of the year, next month’s Masters, are a bit like heats at the Olympics, and few currently look in better shape than youngster Jordan Spieth. The American, 21, became the third youngest man to win multiple PGA Tour titles when he won a three-man play-off to [...]
Standard Chartered bonus bungle shows investors need to speak up March 4, 2015 Falling profits, boardroom turmoil and a declining return on equity: by any measure, Standard Chartered’s 2014 was a year to forget. So the decision of Peter Sands (whose resignation last week was met with a surge in the bank’s share price) to forgo a variable pay award for the year was necessary to avoid a [...]
Broadgate ice skating rink’s warm welcome for professionals as Christmas comes to the City November 26, 2014 Broadgate was filled with the sounds of relieved admiration last night as the crowd at its ice rink launch party watched as performers glided, spun, lifted and swung. Representatives from the Prince’s Trust, Berkeley Group, Broadgate and FTI Consulting among others all mingled, enjoying their first mulled wine of the year and bites [...]
GoCompare founder Hayley Parsons will take home £44m from sale December 8, 2014 Businesswoman Hayley Parsons, founder and chief executive of Go Compare, will pocket £44m when she cashes in her 23 per cent stake in the company she created. Parsons, who worked at Admiral Group for 14 years before launching the price comparison website in 2006, will step away from the firm when the Esure Group acquisition [...]
Admiring Wenger confirms new contract for evergreen Rosicky February 23, 2014 ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger has hailed the influence of Tomas Rosicky and revealed that the Czech playmaker has agreed a contract extension. Rosicky, 33, scored his third goal of the season as the Gunners recovered from a midweek European defeat with a 4-1 win over Sunderland on Saturday. It prompted Wenger to compare Rosicky to [...]
54 Eaton Square: The Belgravia apartment that upstages all others January 15, 2015 If you’re interested in literature or science, there are a multitude of properties that once housed prestigious individuals in their fields. Architectural admirers, too, have a plethora of period properties in the capital that are considered historical gems. But for movie fans, the homes of their silver screen heroes remain relatively illusive. An apartment on [...]
Burberry sales grow in third quarter but slip in Hong Kong January 14, 2015 British luxury brand Burberry had a good end to 2014, with retail sales rising 15 per cent to £604m in the third quarter. The success was driven largely by strong digital growth in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, but this progress wasn’t replicated in Asia – sales fell in Hong Kong, and [...]
The City’s King of Mining Ian Hannam is back on top after £450,000 FCA fine January 27, 2015 When you are called “The King of Mining”, you know you have risen pretty high – and, in dramatic terms at least, there is only one way you can go. Ian Hannam fell very far, very suddenly. The dealmaking guru at JP Morgan quit his job almost three years ago to fight claims of insider [...]
Next generation: top five British painters to watch November 23, 2014 Gillian Carnegie With her black and white paintings of cats, bottoms, stairs and flowers, Camberwell graduate Gillian Carnegie turns hum-drum domesticity into scenes of elegiac beauty. Catherine Storey Conceptual painter Catherine Storey contrives connections between hollywood and the artistic movements of the twentieth century with abstracted paintings of early film equipment. Dexter Dalwood Dexter Dalwood [...]
How London’s brutalist Centre Point tower is being turned into luxury flats with a view January 26, 2015 Both reviled and admired, London’s Centre Point tower at the east end of Oxford Street has stirred controversy ever since it was first erected in 1966. A beehive of concrete and glass, its brutalist-style was regarded as an eyesore on the skyline and the fact that a building of its height (it is 117 metres [...]