RUN FOR A REASON June 18, 2012 JAMES FATTAL, 25 MEDIA AND COMMS WORKER WHAT’S my max? The physiologist came through the door with news: “Your VO2 Max is 49”, he said, looking down at a clipboard. I studied his face for clues, something that would get me through the next few minutes, at which point I could go to the toilet [...]
Shell looks into improved offer for Cove Energy June 17, 2012 THERE WAS growing speculation over the weekend that Royal Dutch Shell will raise its offer for energy explorer Cove, after the firm extended its bid deadline for the second time. Shell said last week that shareholders in Aim-listed Cove now have until 27 June to accept its £1.12bn or 220p per share offer, but the [...]
Start your weekend with a bang this Thursday evening at 6pm June 17, 2012 How do you celebrate something as multifaceted as the City of London? It is a place of contradictions: both a glass-fronted metropolis and a cluster of stone relics, stubborn and robust. It throngs with people of all nationalities and hums with activity that is at once local and global. Crammed into a single square mile [...]
Stelios takes a stake in African low-cost airline June 13, 2012 EASYJET founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s bid to launch a low-cost airline in Africa took a step forward yesterday as his cash shell partner bought regional carrier Fly540. Rubicon, the investment vehicle that started life as a software company, paid $85.7m (£55m) to take over Fly540 from Lonrho, the London-listed African conglomerate that spent six years [...]
StanChart to start review of public relations June 12, 2012 STANDARD Chartered, the emerging markets bank that has been advised on its financial public relations for the past 10 years by Roland Rudd’s RLM Finsbury, is looking for a change. RLM Finsbury has been “put on notice”, a Standard Chartered spokesman says, and the bank is interviewing a host of public relations groups to see [...]
Standard Chartered Great City Race diary June 11, 2012 JAMES FATTAL, 25 MEDIA AND COMMS WORKER FOR ALL the hype around the London Olympics, you’d think everyone who has digested any news in recent times will have been inspired to become a health and fitness fanatic. I wasn’t one of them. That was, until I was offered the opportunity to run in the Standard Chartered [...]
The subprime mortgage crisis isn’t over – UK taxpayers remain liable June 7, 2012 THE subprime mortgage crisis isn’t over. On the back of misguided government policies, taxpayers in the US and UK remain on the hook for huge sums. The ideology of affordable housing must end. It took just 13 years to destroy the American mortgage market with devastating effects for the rest of the world. The process began [...]
EU unveils too big to fail rules in power grab June 6, 2012 THE EUROPEAN Commission has finally unveiled a new set of regulations that are meant to ensure taxpayers will never again have to bail out a failed bank. But critics said that EU commissioner Michel Barnier is also using the new rules to establish a “banking union” and grab powers for the new EU regulator, the [...]
Singaporean feng shui firm to list on Aim June 5, 2012 A SINGAPORE-BASED consultancy firm that advises blue-chip companies using the ancient Chinese philosophy of feng shui is to float on London’s junior stock market to raise £1.5m. New Trend Lifestyle Group, which counts Citibank and Standard Chartered among its clients, announced yesterday its intention to float on Aim at the end of June to fund [...]
The investment credential with valuable assets May 28, 2012 FOR THOSE with four years’ work experience in the investment profession, and with an undergraduate degree or equivalent, the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) credential is a serious opportunity. It’s a globally-recognised standard, a qualification meant to provide the practical skills, theoretical knowledge, and professional outlook to succeed in any relevant investment position. And it’s more [...]