No need to panic – Donald Trump’s tariff tantrum is Britain’s opportunity June 4, 2018 Donald Trump’s big, shiny, new 25 per cent tariffs on steel and 10 per cent on aluminium were confirmed at the end of last week. It was a move that will have won him no friends here or across the EU – but he had few of those anyway. More seriously, it risks crippling his [...]
You can find love with Facebook, if you’ll just trade data for dating May 4, 2018 “We have a responsibility to do more, not just to connect the world but to bring the world closer together.” So spoke Mark Zuckerberg in June 2017, announcing Facebook’s new mission statement. Almost a year later, in the midst of an ongoing scandal about privacy and data, you’d be forgiven for questioning whether the social [...]
‘Thinking Fast and Slow’: Two big lessons for investors July 27, 2018 On The Value Perspective blog, we aim to extol the merits of value investing, the art of buying shares that are unloved by the market for no good reason. The summer holidays – and this guest column on City AM – offer an opportunity for us to highlight investing books that can help keen students [...]
Boohoo moves forward with $20m acquisition of Nasty Gal February 6, 2017 Online fashion retailer Boohoo is moving forward with its $20m (£16m) acquisition of bankrupt rival Nasty Gal, announcing this morning that the deal will be completed by the end of the month. Boohoo, which targets millennial shoppers, announced its intentions to buy up Nasty Gal's intellectual property assets and customer database on 28 December. This [...]
No tears for Boohoo as it nears $20m acquisition of US firm Nasty Gal’s assets December 28, 2016 Boohoo's share price rose this morning after the online fashion retailer announced it has initially agreed to snap up several assets from US group Nasty Gal for a cool $20m (£16.2m). Joint chief executives Mahmud Kamani and Carol Kane said the purchase agreement, which is Boohoo's second acquisition announced this month, is an "ideal next step" [...]
99 problems? Not for this M&A bank, which recently advised on Jay Z deal February 16, 2017 An investment bank which recently advised on a Jay Z deal has reported record revenues for 2016. GCA has reported a turnover of £148m and earnings before interest and taxation of £27m for the year to 31 December. Read more: Boutique investment bank Zeus triumphs in biggest IPO of 2017 so far The results are the first [...]
Lewis Hamilton interview: How the most decorated British racing driver in history, may be about to swap the track for the runway July 5, 2018 I find Lewis Hamilton quietly thumbing through a sheaf of technical sketches. But he’s not in a pit garage or race car factory perusing the work of aerodynamicists – he’s in Tommy Hilfiger’s Knightsbridge studio, studying pictures of sneakers. Just as he gives his Mercedes crew feedback, demanding different damper settings or more wing, he’s [...]
Helena Morrissey Q&A: How rethinking the City’s bravado culture and accepting difference will mean women and men can have it all February 12, 2018 It’s been almost five years since Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg published Lean In, which encouraged women to raise their voices and get stuck into their workplaces. Now, the movement for gender equality has a new manifesto in the form of A Good Time to be a Girl, by the founder of the boardroom campaign The 30% [...]
Microsoft Surface Book 2 review: The 2-in-1 powerhouse gets 15-inch upgrade February 8, 2018 The Microsoft Surface Book 2 looks a lot like the original Surface Book, which is great news for those who fear change. It’s still got that vast 3:2 ratio screen, above a great slab of a base that looks like it could have been hewn from a single cuboid of brushed metal Microsoft discovered [...]
Fitness advice: Why focusing on a ‘healthy’ diet may be stopping you from losing weight February 6, 2018 When I was growing up, food didn’t come with information about calories or salt or sugar content. You just used a bit of common sense, a bit of guess work and left a bit to chance. Now it’s a legal requirement for any supermarket food to have nutritional information attached. Look at any label [...]