City Moves for 7 January 2016 | Who’s switching jobs January 7, 2016 Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has announced that John Goldfinch, a London-based member of the firm’s alternative investments practice group, has been elected to the firm’s partnership effective 1 January. John has a broad structured finance, securitisation and transactional derivatives practice covering the full spectrum of products. He joined Milbank [...]
City Moves for 5 February 2016 | Who’s switching jobs February 5, 2016 Robertson Baxter Independent financial advisory firm Robertson Baxter has added chartered financial planner Kate Davenport to its growing technical team. Kate brings the total number of financial professionals at Robertson Baxter to 12. As well as her chartered status, Kate has a degree in law and is currently training to become STEP (Society of State and Trust Practitioners) qualified. [...]
City Moves for 18 December 2015 | Who’s switching jobs December 17, 2015 TOGETHER Andrew Murdoch has joined specialist lender Together as group valuations manager, after 12 years with Eddisons. A Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors-registered valuer and registered receiver, he has extensive experience in valuation, asset management and value enhancement. At Eddisons, he spent eight years specialising in corporate recovery, insolvency and LPA receiverships, including two year-long [...]
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 [...]
London mayor Boris Johnson wins over delegates at Conservative party conference 2015 as he slams Jeremy Corbyn and ramps up the pressure over Heathrow October 6, 2015 London mayor Boris Johnson won over delegates at the Conservative conference in Manchester today with a wide-ranging speech that fuelled speculation the MP for Uxbridge will challenge chancellor George Osborne to be the party's next leader. Johnson, who sits in the Prime Minister's political cabinet but is often unafraid to challenge the government's positions, used his speech to a packed [...]
Creating wealth, giving back: Highlights of my year as the lord mayor of London November 1, 2015 This is my final City A.M. column as lord mayor – in less than a fortnight, I’ll hang up my hat, pass on the chain, and watch the removal van pull up outside Mansion House. But what a fantastic year it’s been! It’s the one job in the world where I have felt that absolutely [...]
Conservative conference 2015: Boris Johnson urges party to oppose Heathrow expansion October 7, 2015 London mayor Boris Johnson piled extra pressure on the government yesterday, urging it to reject the Airports Commission’s recommendation to expand Heathrow, as Prime Minister David Cameron said he would give him a Cabinet post as soon as next year. In his speech to the Conservative party conference in Manchester, Johnson warned: “If we [...]
City Moves for 22 September 2015 | Who’s switching jobs September 21, 2015 LEGAL & GENERAL INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Katharine Photiou has been appointed head of workplace defined contribution, product and proposition, at the investment management firm. She joins from Barclays, where she was head of workplace savings. Photiou has also held roles at Mercer and Friends Provident, latterly as head of defined contribution corporate strategy and design. JP [...]
City Moves for 02 October 2015 | Who’s switching jobs October 1, 2015 BAKER & MCKENZIE The law firm has appointed Dyann Heward-Mills as a partner to its data protection and privacy practice in London. The qualified barrister joins from GE Capital, where she was global senior privacy counsel. Prior to joining GE Capital, Heward-Mills spent five years at Linklaters as their senior privacy and communications lawyer. She [...]
Don’t be quiet: Why the City needs to shout about its good work in wider society August 16, 2015 Over the past year, I have said frequently that firms in the City are too quiet when there is good news to tell. All too often, the negative stories are the ones that gain the most headlines – normally involving rogue operators or massive fines. This coverage is wholly disproportionate – and wholly depressing. This [...]