City Moves for 22 August 2014 | Who’s switching jobs August 21, 2014 RBC Global Asset Management The asset management arm of Royal Bank of Canada has appointed Clive Brown as chief executive and managing director of RBC Global Asset Management International. He joins from JP Morgan Asset Management, where he was global chief operating officer and chairman of Asia. Brown has also previously worked as chief executive [...]
City Moves for 01 July 2014 | Who’s switching jobs June 30, 2014 Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty David Wilson has been appointed global head of energy claims at the insurance business. He has over 13 years’ experience in claims, and was most recently energy and property claims manager at a London-based insurance company. Perella Weinberg Partners Jorma Ollila has been named an advisory partner at the financial services [...]
Will Ebola spread to the UK? Jeremy Hunt says it’s likely we will see “handful” of cases in next few months October 13, 2014 Measures to screen passengers as they enter the UK from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea will be introduced tomorrow, with health secretary Jeremy Hunt saying it is likely the UK will see a “handful” of Ebola cases in the next few months. Hunt was echoing the phrase used this weekend by chief medical officer [...]
Laying down the law on M&A and sell offs September 22, 2014 LAW FIRM of the year The past year has seen law firms work with the government and banks on the selling of shares and on the investigations into alleged failings at big companies. Against that backdrop lawyers have also started to benefit from the upturn in the M&A and financing markets, beefing up their private [...]
FTSE slide halted by BP’s £12bn US settlement – London Report July 2, 2015 BRITAIN’S top share index ended higher yesterday as oil major BP rose after reaching an $18.7bn (£12bn) settlement with the US government and commodity stocks tracked stronger crude oil and metals prices. BP rose 4.5 per cent, the top gainer in the blue-chip FTSE 100 index, after saying it had reached the settlement on the [...]
Mining strength offsets worries over Greek deal – London Report June 24, 2015 BRITAIN’S top share index turned lower after touching a three-week high yesterday although it still outperformed Eurozone shares with strength in the mining sector insulating the index from the Greek debt standoff. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index hit 6,873.43 in morning trade, its highest level since June 4. It turned lower to trade up just [...]
Reviving an Aussie institution on the Great Barrier Reef October 24, 2014 Backpackers heading to Australia aspire to conquer the three Rs; Reef, Rocks, and Rock. Admittedly, it gets a bit repetitive towards the end, but if you follow the three Rs you’ll get a basic understanding of the country’s vast and extreme landscape, namely the Great Barrier Reef, The Rocks in Sydney and Ayers Rock. But [...]
Crowdfunding Hollywood: Why the UK will finance the blockbusters of the future August 31, 2014 Over the years, the nationality of baddies in Hollywood films has offered a pretty reliable barometer of American geopolitical preoccupations. During the Cold War, there was an abundance of Russian villains on the big screen, with snow on their boots, vodka on their breath and their fingers on the nuclear trigger. More recently, jihadi terrorists, [...]
City Moves for 04 September 2014 | Who’s switching jobs September 3, 2014 Savills The real estate adviser has announced the appointment of Andrew D Thompson as a director in its London-based building and project consultancy team. He joins from his own independent practice, and has previously held roles at CBRE, Drivers Jonas, and Wilks Head & Eve. Aviva Investors David Lis has been appointed chief investment officer, [...]
Flurry of economic data to shed light on British recovery – London Report May 17, 2015 A STEADY flow of economic data is expected this week, with figures on house prices, producer prices, retail sales and public sector borrowing all scheduled for release. Data out tomorrow is expected to show that the UK experienced unchanged consumer prices year-on-year in April, as was the case in both March and February – although [...]