It’s jobs for the boys (and girls) as Aim turns 20 June 17, 2015 Champagne corks popped at the Artillery Garden off Moorgate last night to celebrate growth among some of Britain’s fledgling companies which have listed on the Alternative Investment Market (Aim) in the two decades since it started. The official anniversary is tomorrow, but the hundreds of brokers, bankers and city grandees could hardly wait and were [...]
City Moves for 16 July 2015 | Who’s switching jobs July 15, 2015 Logistics Capital Partners The project development and asset management services provider has announced the appointment of Andrea Benvenuti as a partner. He joins as managing director of development and construction from Amazon. Benvenuti has also held senior roles at Prologis. Willis Group The risk advisory, re/insurance broking, and human capital and benefits firm has appointed [...]
BBC sells White City site for £87m to Stanhope and Japanese firm Mitsui Fudosan June 5, 2015 The BBC has announced the sale and sublet of its Media Village site in an £87m deal with Stanhope and Mitsui Fudosan. Read more: BBC offers James May and Richard Hammond £1m to stay Following an 18-month negotiating process, four acres of freehold land will be sold and six buildings in White City leased as part [...]
Cultivating London’s next generation of tech entrepreneurs June 15, 2015 Digital technology is changing the world, but the pace of that change is still breathtaking. In three years, Airbnb amassed as many hotel rooms as the Hilton dynasty did in a century. Ten years ago, Twitter didn’t exist – now it has more than 300m users. And Spotify adds around 20,000 tracks to its 30m-strong [...]
The new Lord Mayor Alan Yarrow rehearses for Saturday’s show November 5, 2014 Anyone motoring through the City at 4.50am yesterday would have had quite the surprise. The next Lord Mayor, Alan Yarrow, was being trotted through the streets in his horse-drawn golden carriage in rehearsal for Saturday’s Lord Mayor’s Show. “We had to get up early for the practice, but I think we all enjoyed [...]
City Moves for 09 July 2015 | Who’s switching jobs July 8, 2015 Markel International The insurer has appointed David Sawyer as senior underwriter and head of professional indemnity in its professional and financial risks division. He joins from Travelers Insurance Company, where he was responsible for running its professional indemnity portfolio. Axa Investment Managers Paul Squires has been promoted to global head of trading and securities financing [...]
The super-rich paying a £50,000 deposit to RENT in London August 20, 2015 With rising house prices placing home ownership out of reach for many and overseas investment rife, London’s lettings market is booming. But the commonly-painted picture of young professionals struggling to pay for their grotty house share in Dalston only tells one side of this increasingly complex story. For competition isn’t only fierce at the affordable [...]
Baker & McKenzie appoints 40pc women among 83 new partners June 25, 2015 GLOBAL law firm Baker & McKenzie has promoted 83 solicitors to partner, including three in London, bringing the firms’ total number of partners worldwide to 1,500. The firm made the hiring announcement yesterday, pointing out that 40 per cent of the new promotions have gone to women. “I am particularly pleased to see the increase [...]
Does loyalty still count in the City? August 21, 2015 Most professionals reach a point in their career when they need to make a decision: are they better off staying with their current employer, or should they find out whether the grass is greener on the other side? Employees of the Big Four accountancy firms are often highly prized and invariably have many [...]
Why money is just not enough to keep top employees August 27, 2015 With the job market heating up in the City, employers are revisiting their staff motivation and retention strategies to prevent their best people from leaving and taking new job opportunities. But this may not be as simple as finding more money to tempt people to stay: increasingly, employees are looking for alternative benefits, including better [...]