Fancy a career change? These are the best paying jobs in the world’s top cities, according to Emolument September 2, 2016 If you're looking to make a change in your career, it might be worth considering a move abroad, and more specifically, heading for the Big Apple. New York is where the highest paying roles can be found, according to research from salary-benchmarking site Emolument.com, which has analysed 5,162 pay data points for professionals working in New [...]
Uber is gearing up to launch UberEats in 12 more cities across Europe August 21, 2016 Uber is planning an ambitious expansion of its food delivery service UberEats across Europe just two months after it first arrived in London. The billion-dollar startup is already eyeing its second city in the UK and plans to expand beyond its existing patch of central London. Meanwhile it's planning to launch in a further 12 cities in 10 [...]
These 30 European universities have the highest-paid graduates (and they’re not the ones you think) August 19, 2016 That much-coveted place at university might not actually earn you as much as you hoped: new research shows UK institutions are disconcertingly far down when it comes to the eventual salary of their graduates. The figures, put together by salary benchmarking site Emolument.com, show graduates from the universities traditionally seen as the UK's top two – Oxford and Cambridge – aren't necessarily the [...]
City A.M.’s Rio 50: These are the 50 most marketable athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games August 3, 2016 Do you thrill to the Mobot? Or tingle when Jess Ennis-Hill ducks for the line? Perhaps it’s Usain Bolt’s signature To Di World celebration, an Andy Murray fist pump, or gymnastics doyenne Simone Biles cheekily winking during a floor routine that brings out the goose-pimples. Everyone has their favourites: those sportsmen and women who we [...]
Nearly half of young people to use lifetime Isa to save for retirement August 1, 2016 Nearly half of younger Britons will use a the lifetime Isa to save for retirement instead of taking out a pension plan a survey outlined today. A YouGov poll said that 44 per cent of Britons between the age of 18 and 39 would favour using the government’s new lifetime Isa in order to put [...]
A long weekend in Lucerne, Switzerland, a place of almost unimaginable beauty July 22, 2016 Where: Cradle of local hero William Tell, home of Wagner, Lucerne is a cobalt, lakeside idyll, ringed by mythical snow- capped mountains, a gorgeous Swiss City with a medieval Altstadt (Old Town), historic covered bridges, cobbled squares where perfectly conserved Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance houses, decorated with mosaics, jostle together inside towering city walls. First made [...]
Don’t write London off yet: The City will remain Europe’s financial centre July 6, 2016 The City has a strange identity in political discourse. In one news cycle, a government can at once be criticised for protecting already flush bankers from regulatory harm while also pilloried for not doing enough to shield their competitiveness from heirs to London’s throne in Paris and Frankfurt. Now the pendulum has swung firmly to the [...]
City Moves for 4 July 2016 | Who’s switching jobs July 4, 2016 Towergate Towergate has appointed Kay Martin as commercial director. Kay will join the executive committee, reporting to CEO David Ross. She will join Towergate from Zurich UK where she has been a member of the UKGI executive team and chief marketing officer since June 2010. Kay recently assumed interim responsibilities for Zurich UK Personal Lines, taking on the role [...]
London drops down list of world’s most expensive cities June 22, 2016 London has dropped five places in the latest ranking of the most expensive cities to live in, slipping behind rivals from Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The capital was found to be the 17th priciest city in the world to call home on a calculation which takes into account housing, subsistence, travel and entertainment costs, down from [...]
The UK needs a global, connected capital city, and Brexit would put all of that at risk June 21, 2016 London is a connected, global city – an attractive place to work, do business, and to set up a headquarters. Central to that appeal are its bonds with Europe. We’ve always been a trading city, and there are historic reminders of that at London City Airport. Located in London’s Royal Docks, the steel tracks that [...]