DO YOU USE TWITTER? May 15, 2012 ERENE DELLAPORTA CREATE I do use Twitter. Working for a charity, I find it is a fantastic marketing tool for everyday use and letting people know what your company is about, what you are doing and what you are working towards. ANDREW MEIKLE CBRE I don’t use it but I have been meaning to set [...]
Great Portland sells £100m of London assets May 15, 2012 PROPERTY firm Great Portland Estates sold three buildings for over £100m in London’s West End and Midtown districts yesterday as it continues to recycle capital into its major London schemes. The company said it has sold 184/190 Oxford Street, Buchanan House in Holborn and a portfolio of properties at Portland Place for £106m, and 23 [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 29, 2012 SPC The Society of Pensions Consultants has announced that Roger Mattingly has been elected society president, with effect from 1 June. He succeeds Kevin LeGrand, head of technical services at Buck Consultants. Mattingly is a board director at JLT Benefit Solutions and has sat on the SPC council for the past thirteen years. R3 Lee [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 29, 2012 SPC The Society of Pensions Consultants has announced that Roger Mattingly has been elected society president, with effect from 1 June. He succeeds Kevin LeGrand, head of technical services at Buck Consultants. Mattingly is a board director at JLT Benefit Solutions and has sat on the SPC council for the past thirteen years. R3 Lee [...]
CBRE earnings beat forecasts April 24, 2012 CBRE, one of the world’s largest commercial property firms, reported better-than-expected earnings last night, as the Americas offset sluggishness in Europe. Excluding $18.9m in charges related to its ING acquisition, CBRE reported first-quarter earnings of $45.9m, up from $40.6m in the first quarter of 2011. Revenue for the quarter rose 14 per cent to $1.35bn. [...]
WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 23, 2012 Northill Capital The asset manager, founded in 2010, has announced the appointments of Darius Berendji and Cathy Jones as partners in its management team. Berendji joins as partner and chief financial officer. He was previously financial director for Kedge Capital. Jones joins as partner and head of human resources. She previously held the same role [...]
Luxury hotel in the City given the go-ahead April 2, 2012 SINGAPORE’S KOP Group yesterday won approval to convert 10 Trinity Square, a listed landmark overlooking London’s Tower Hill, into a luxury boutique hotel. KOP said in a statement yesterday that City of London had approved plans to turn the building – which was originally home to the Port of London Authority’s headquarters – into a [...]
Hilton site is sold to co-owner April 2, 2012 SHIRAZ BOGHANI, one of the co-founders of Splendid Hotel Group which was dissolved last year, has personally bought the site of the proposed Hilton Southwark hotel, one of the collapsed company’s two large unfinished projects. The Hilton development and the InterContinental London Westminster hotel near Scotland Yard were put up for sale in September after [...]
CITY VIEWS ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT THE UK’S FUEL SUPPLY? March 28, 2012 PATRICK O’CONNOR ABERDEEN ASSET MANAGEMENT I’m not personally worried, but I’m worried about my wife as she uses the car the most. The reserves are already stretched with the threat of the strike, so the government needs to do what is necessary to keep cars on the road. CHARLOTTE CURTIS RPS I’m very worried about [...]
CITY VIEWS ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT THE UK’S FUEL SUPPLY? March 28, 2012 PATRICK O’CONNOR ABERDEEN ASSET MANAGEMENT I’m not personally worried, but I’m worried about my wife as she uses the car the most. The reserves are already stretched with the threat of the strike, so the government needs to do what is necessary to keep cars on the road. CHARLOTTE CURTIS RPS I’m very worried about [...]