JOE LEWIS CLAN BEARS HIS FOURTH GENERATION November 22, 2011 The Capitalist is pleased to reveal that Joe Lewis’s first great-granddaughter has arrived into the world. The name of the currency billionaire’s new clan member is Charlotte, born in London to Joanna, the daughter of Lewis’s daughter Vivienne Silverton, who runs the family’s Isleworth Foundation. Lewis scuttled back to the Bahamas shortly after Charlotte arrived [...]
Lewis seeks out Irish tycoons in brewing battle September 14, 2011 JOE LEWIS has told associates he wants to meet JP McManus and John Magnier, his friends and fellow shareholders in Mitchells & Butlers, to enlist their support in his fight to take full control of the pub chain. According to one source who was yesterday at a meeting on Lewis’s boat Aviva, the financier expressed [...]
Aviva hints at disposals as profits surge March 3, 2011 INVESTORS welcomed Aviva’s forecast-beating results yesterday as the insurance giant reported a 35 per cent jump in pre-tax profit. Achievements included eliminating its £1.7bn pension deficit in the year, and returning its net asset value to a £12.8bn pre-crisis level. Aviva said its 2011 strategy was “to concentrate on the markets where we have strength [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS November 7, 2011 RFC Group John Harrison, who retired as a managing director of Numis Securities last month, has been named as chairman of Ambrian Partners, subject to completion of RFC’s acquisition of 100 per cent of Ambrian’s share capital. Harrison joined Numis in 1994 following a career at Lloyd’s of London. Since 2003, he has led the [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS November 7, 2011 RFC Group John Harrison, who retired as a managing director of Numis Securities last month, has been named as chairman of Ambrian Partners, subject to completion of RFC’s acquisition of 100 per cent of Ambrian’s share capital. Harrison joined Numis in 1994 following a career at Lloyd’s of London. Since 2003, he has led the [...]
England can’t afford to overlook Farrell November 13, 2011 IT’S BEEN a terrific start to the season here at Saracens and I was delighted to see the side carry their domestic form into the Heineken Cup yesterday. Treviso are a powerful side with a finely tuned set-piece, so to run in five tries and gain a bonus point was a marvellous achievement. Owen Farrell [...]
England can’t afford to overlook Farrell November 13, 2011 IT’S BEEN a terrific start to the season here at Saracens and I was delighted to see the side carry their domestic form into the Heineken Cup yesterday. Treviso are a powerful side with a finely tuned set-piece, so to run in five tries and gain a bonus point was a marvellous achievement. Owen Farrell [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS October 23, 2011 Little Chef The roadside chain has appointed Graham Sims as its new chairman. Sims is currently chief executive of Qunatilis, a non-executive board member at the UK Border Agency, and chairman of Kensington Consultancy Group. Earlier in his career, he spent seven years at BP, rising from operations manager for Portugal to UK retail managing [...]
HEADACHE FOR AVIVA INVESTORS OVER THEIR LIBYAN LANDLORD March 2, 2011 INTERESTING times at 14 Cornhill, the commercial property with a prime location opposite the Bank of England. Its owner has become embroiled in a little local difficulty involving global asset freezing. The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), the sovereign wealth fund that administers the troubled country’s oil billions, has owned 14 Cornhill since December 2009, when [...]
Former Lloyds chief Eric Daniels tipped as next Aviva chairman March 17, 2011 ERIC Daniels, the former Lloyds Banking Group chief executive, is a candidate to become the next chairman at insurer Aviva, City A.M. learned yesterday. Daniels, who stepped down as Lloyds’ chief executive at the start of March, is one of about five candidates approached by Aviva about taking a non-executive board position. The new director [...]