Sergio Garcia ends European Tour drought at Dubai Desert Classic February 5, 2017 Spain’s Sergio Garcia toasted an early-season tonic after claiming his first European Tour title for three years at the Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday. Garcia carded a blemish-free final round of 69 to finish on 19 under par and complete a wire-to-wire victory. Open champion Henrik Stenson was Garcia’s closest challenger on 16 under par, [...]
Three charts showing why we remain very happy to hold UK banks March 20, 2017 Investors have tended to steer clear of the UK’s big banks since the financial crisis bit in 2008, when share prices plummeted and Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) had to be bailed out with taxpayer money. As we tend to do, on our Value Perspective blog, we took a different view – arguing [...]
Three charts showing why we remain very happy to hold UK banks March 20, 2017 Investors have tended to steer clear of the UK’s big banks since the financial crisis bit in 2008, when share prices plummeted and Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) had to be bailed out with taxpayer money. As we tend to do, on our Value Perspective blog, we took a different view – arguing [...]
Tour de France 2017: Team Sky has full support of the media giant despite a tumultuous year June 30, 2017 Team Sky has the full backing of the executives at the media behemoth despite enduring a year plagued by doping allegations, according to a key director at Britain’s most successful cycling team. Sky has dominated professional cycling in recent years, winning four of the last five editions of the Tour de France, which starts on [...]
Rio Tinto has appointed the former boss of Centrica and Shell’s financial head to its board February 10, 2017 Rio Tinto today announced a series of major board appointments – including the former boss of Centrica Sam Laidlaw. Laidlaw will join the global miner's board as a non-executive director with immediate effect along with former Sasol chief executive David Constable. Shell's chief financial officer Simon Henry will join the board from July. Two Rio non-executive directors, Robert Brown [...]
Cairn ploughs on in the North Sea January 17, 2017 Cairn Energy says it has the funds to fuel its projects through to production. The independent oil and gas explorer expects first oil from its Catcher and Kraken developments east of the Shetland Islands this year. The wells are expected to produce 25,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Simon Thomson, Chief Executive, Cairn Energy PLC said: “Cairn [...]