City Moves for 2 February 2016 | Who’s switching jobs February 2, 2016 Brewin Dolphin Brewin Dolphin, an independent provider of personalised, discretionary wealth management services, has announced that Heather Sonnet has joined the company to launch a new office in Cambridge to cater for the growing number of people in the area seeking financial planning and investment advice. Heather, who joins from Almary Green Investments, is a [...]
Shining a light on pay disparity can be the harbinger of change May 3, 2016 With his recent £70m pay check, Sir Martin Sorrell has cast himself once again as either pantomime villain or Hero of New Capitalism. Whichever side you take, WPP’s employees and the wider world now know his salary, which colours the extent to which we agree with his L’Oréal worthy proclamation: “I’m worth it”. Changes for the good in pay [...]
City Moves for 8 March 2016 | Who’s switching jobs March 8, 2016 Indigo Planning Indigo Planning has appointed regeneration and community engagement expert Mark Teasdale as associate director. Mark has provided consultancy advice to Indigo Planning for more than 10 years, creating its methodology for assessing the socio-economic impact of major, mixed use developments, directing numerous studies assessing the potential economic and social benefits of major schemes [...]
City Moves for 20 November 2015 | Who’s switching jobs November 19, 2015 COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL The commercial real estate services firm has appointed Shane O’Reilly as associate director in its investment property management team. He joins after 10 years at King Sturge/JLL, where his mandates included Crown Estate, Urban Regional Portfolio, and Ropemaker Properties. DEUTSCHE ASSET AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT Matthew Lamb has been appointed co-head of alternatives coverage [...]
City Moves for 23 November 2015 | Who’s switching jobs November 22, 2015 TISA The financial services membership organisation has appointed Kenn Taylor to its retirement policy and technical team. He has 30 years’ industry experience, most recently leading consulting teams with Troika, Navigant and Grant Thornton. THERIUM CAPITAL The third party litigation funder has appointed Timothy Mayer and Nicholas Moore as principals in its investment team. They [...]
City Moves for 24 November 2015 | Who’s switching jobs November 23, 2015 OCTOPUS INVESTMENTS The fund manager has appointed Tim Lambert as strategic partnerships manager, with an initial focus on the affordable housing sector. He joins from Parallel Capital, which he founded in 2011. Lambert has also worked as head of consulting at Ducalian, and has held roles at Citywise and Akiko. JP MORGAN ASSET MANAGEMENT The [...]
City Moves for 6 January 2016 | Who’s switching jobs January 6, 2016 Victoria Michael Scott been appointed group finance director of Aim 50-listed floorcovering designers and manufacturers Victoria. Michael joins after eight years at Rothschild, where, as part of its global financial advisory business, he worked across a wide range of public and private company transactions, mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity-related fundraisings. He qualified as [...]
City Moves for 11 December 2015 | Who’s switching jobs December 10, 2015 KEMP LITTLE LLP Vicky Cooper has been appointed by Kemp Little LLP as a partner in the technology and digital media law firm’s IP & technology disputes group. Vicky will work closely with the firm’s commercial technology team, bolstering Kemp Little’s IT dispute resolution capability. Vicky specialises in helping both suppliers and customers in the [...]
City Moves for 07 October 2015 | Who’s switching jobs October 6, 2015 EY The professional services firm has announced the appointment of Nick Parkhouse to lead its new financial services debt advisory team. He joins as an executive director from RBS, where he was a senior director and led a structured finance team focused on specialty finance markets in the UK. Parkhouse has also previously held roles [...]
Deutsche Bank share price dips as it posts €6bn loss and announces plans to cut jobs October 29, 2015 Embattled lender Deutsche Bank posted a €6bn (£4.3bn) loss for its third quarter, adding it will cut thousands of jobs as part of its turnaround plan. Still, that loss isn't as bad as the €6.2bn loss it warned of in October… Read more: Deutsche Bank's big shake-up – here's everything you need to know The figures [...]