Investors want tough EU rules for audit firms September 16, 2012 A GROUP of top investors has called on the European Commission to push ahead with tough new rules for auditors that could see some companies broken up. More than a dozen institutional investors and trade bodies have signed a paper seen by City A.M. urging politicians in Europe to continue shaking up the audit industry [...]
Investors want tough EU rules for audit firms September 16, 2012 A GROUP of top investors has called on the European Commission to push ahead with tough new rules for auditors that could see some companies broken up. More than a dozen institutional investors and trade bodies have signed a paper seen by City A.M. urging politicians in Europe to continue shaking up the audit industry [...]
Pension firms forced to slash growth rates November 1, 2012 PEOPLE saving for pensions will see the projected size of their final pension pots slashed under new rules imposed by the financial watchdog. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) yesterday confirmed that the projection rates used by pension companies to give investors an idea of what their pension will be worth when they retire must be [...]
Why stammering didn’t hold back my career at E&Y October 21, 2012 WHAT do Moses, George VI, Sir Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, Emily Blunt, Bruce Willis, and Julia Roberts have in common? They all suffered, or suffer, from a stammer. Today is International Stammering Awareness Day. And an increasing number of organisations in the UK are now waking up to the potential that stammerers hold. They’re taking [...]
Why stammering didn’t hold back my career at E&Y October 21, 2012 WHAT do Moses, George VI, Sir Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, Emily Blunt, Bruce Willis, and Julia Roberts have in common? They all suffered, or suffer, from a stammer. Today is International Stammering Awareness Day. And an increasing number of organisations in the UK are now waking up to the potential that stammerers hold. They’re taking [...]
Civil service says fiasco caused by a brain drain October 4, 2012 THE WEST Coast rail fiasco shows that the government should pay and praise its civil servants more in order to reverse a “brain drain” out of the public sector, the former head of the civil service said yesterday. Gus O’Donnell – a candidate for the governorship of the Bank of England – said the government [...]
Civil service says fiasco caused by a brain drain October 4, 2012 THE WEST Coast rail fiasco shows that the government should pay and praise its civil servants more in order to reverse a “brain drain” out of the public sector, the former head of the civil service said yesterday. Gus O’Donnell – a candidate for the governorship of the Bank of England – said the government [...]
City Moves | Who’s switching Jobs September 11, 2012 Arbuthnot Latham The private bank has appointed Liz Bottomley to the role of head of private banking. She most recently worked for Coutts, where she was senior manager and client partner in its international private banking division. Bottomley has over 25 years’ experience in the industry, and takes up her position with immediate effect. Old [...]
Canada closes the door as Russia keeps playing the field October 22, 2012 CANADIAN politicians were in damage limitation mode yesterday, taking to the country’s airwaves to tell anyone who’d listen that The True North is open for business. Their protestations come in the wake of industry minister Christian Paradis’ last minute decision on Friday to block Malaysian state oil company Petronas’ bid for Progress Energy, a natural [...]
Canada closes the door as Russia keeps playing the field October 22, 2012 CANADIAN politicians were in damage limitation mode yesterday, taking to the country’s airwaves to tell anyone who’d listen that The True North is open for business. Their protestations come in the wake of industry minister Christian Paradis’ last minute decision on Friday to block Malaysian state oil company Petronas’ bid for Progress Energy, a natural [...]