Before introducing costly new schemes government should first do less harm March 18, 2012 LET’S face it. In asking for government favours entrepreneurs are a vested interest like all the rest. Because they aren’t collectivised in the same way as more experienced lobbyists, they don’t get the same hearing as big business. Yet what they lack in voice they make up for in value for money. Politicians are more [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS January 19, 2012 Signia Wealth Chris Godding has been appointed as co-chief investment officer and managing director, focusing on institutional and charity clients. Godding moves to Signia Wealth after nine years at Morgan Stanley private wealth management international, where he was chief investment officer and a member of the Smith Barney investment committee. Prior to this, he managed [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS January 19, 2012 Signia Wealth Chris Godding has been appointed as co-chief investment officer and managing director, focusing on institutional and charity clients. Godding moves to Signia Wealth after nine years at Morgan Stanley private wealth management international, where he was chief investment officer and a member of the Smith Barney investment committee. Prior to this, he managed [...]
Deloitte chooses chairman June 2, 2011 DELOITTE Touche Tohmatsu is preparing to name its new international chairman today, expected to be Steve Almond, a long-time managing director of its global division. He will take over from John Connolly, who has just left the role, at a time when the audit industry is facing legal challenges and regulatory hurdles. Recently in the [...]
Deloitte chooses chairman June 2, 2011 DELOITTE Touche Tohmatsu is preparing to name its new international chairman today, expected to be Steve Almond, a long-time managing director of its global division. He will take over from John Connolly, who has just left the role, at a time when the audit industry is facing legal challenges and regulatory hurdles. Recently in the [...]
Retailers’ warning: more woes to come January 8, 2012 RETAILERS fell into administration at a faster rate last year, with a leading industry body warning that tax hikes will see even more high street stores going bust in the months to come. Retail administrations totalled 183 in 2011, according to data released today by Deloitte — an 11 per cent rise on the previous [...]
We need peace and free trade – not crazed war-mongering April 2, 2012 PEACE and prosperity, fuelled by free trade and open markets: that is what the world needs. In the main, that is what it is getting, to a degree unprecedented in modern history and fuelled by modern communications. So it is terribly disappointing that the Argentine government seems so desperate to inflame tensions between itself and [...]
We need peace and free trade – not crazed war-mongering April 2, 2012 PEACE and prosperity, fuelled by free trade and open markets: that is what the world needs. In the main, that is what it is getting, to a degree unprecedented in modern history and fuelled by modern communications. So it is terribly disappointing that the Argentine government seems so desperate to inflame tensions between itself and [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS March 14, 2012 KPMG Forensic KPMG has announced the appointment of James Siswick as director of its financial services forensic team. He will help drive the expansion of the firm’s financial crime business, with anti-money laundering and sanctions as his key areas of interest. Siswick joins after fourteen years at Deloitte, where he most recently worked as director [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS March 14, 2012 KPMG Forensic KPMG has announced the appointment of James Siswick as director of its financial services forensic team. He will help drive the expansion of the firm’s financial crime business, with anti-money laundering and sanctions as his key areas of interest. Siswick joins after fourteen years at Deloitte, where he most recently worked as director [...]