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 [...]
MEDIA EXEC BRINGS £1M PERUVIAN BID TO SOHO February 20, 2012 MARTIN MORALES was headhunted by Apple as one of the four founders of iTunes Europe and sat on the board of The Walt Disney Company. But Ceviche, the Peruvian restaurant behind a plain black door at 17 Frith Street in Soho, is his life’s work. Since leaving Disney in July 2011, the half-Peruvian Morales has [...]
MEDIA EXEC BRINGS £1M PERUVIAN BID TO SOHO February 20, 2012 MARTIN MORALES was headhunted by Apple as one of the four founders of iTunes Europe and sat on the board of The Walt Disney Company. But Ceviche, the Peruvian restaurant behind a plain black door at 17 Frith Street in Soho, is his life’s work. Since leaving Disney in July 2011, the half-Peruvian Morales has [...]
Why we need to convert sport to suit today’s lives February 29, 2012 MAINTAINING and realising the sporting legacy of this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games is a huge challenge. But it also presents the chance for those governing sport to do things differently, and find a new generation of participants as a result. Existing policy has failed to engage people in sport in the volumes hoped for. [...]
UK GDP drop confirmed February 24, 2012 Britain’s economy shrank in the fourth quarter of last year despite higher consumer spending and strong export growth as businesses slashed investment, official data showed on Friday. The Office for National Statistics confirmed earlier estimates that the economy shrank by 0.2 percent quarter-on-quarter, growing by 0.7 per cent on the year – a slight downward [...]
UK GDP drop confirmed February 24, 2012 Britain’s economy shrank in the fourth quarter of last year despite higher consumer spending and strong export growth as businesses slashed investment, official data showed on Friday. The Office for National Statistics confirmed earlier estimates that the economy shrank by 0.2 percent quarter-on-quarter, growing by 0.7 per cent on the year – a slight downward [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS January 12, 2012 Association of British Insurers The ABI board has appointed Robert Talbut, chief investment officer of Royal London Asset Management, as chairman of the ABI investment committee. Previously the committee’s deputy chairman, he takes over from Alain Dromer, CEO of Aviva Investors. Talbut is a member of the Listing Authority advisory committee and an alternate on [...]
Lloyds chief Horta-Osorio “thrilled” to be back at work January 9, 2012 Lloyds Banking Group Chief Executive Antonio Horta-Osorio said he was “thrilled” to return to work on Monday after a two-month absence due to fatigue, but faces an even bigger challenge turning around the part-state-owned lender than when he left. “I am thrilled to be back and I look forward to working with my colleagues again,” [...]
Jobs fear cuts short protest January 22, 2012 THE protesters entered quickly and quietly in trademark style. They left with similar speed, however, when they realised their takeover of a City office block – owned by Berkeley Homes – risked adding to the ranks of the poor, rather than helping them. The takeover of Roman House in the Barbican was the shortest of the [...]