CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 5, 2011 Hastings Direct Liz Latter has been appointed as head of insurer development at the firm. She will work with Adrian Parry, head of Hastings’ panel development activities for the last two years, who will step back from his full-time commitments in early 2012 to pursue other commitments, but will continue to support the business. Latter [...]
SINGAPORE TYCOON TO PITCH FOR FULHAM’S HISTORIC TOWN HALL December 11, 2011 FORGET the West End, the eyes of the property world will tomorrow be fixed on Fulham, when the council decides the fate of its historic town hall. The tender to develop the Grade II-listed site, which dates back to 1888, has been narrowed to a list of three developers – one retail, one residential and [...]
SINGAPORE TYCOON TO PITCH FOR FULHAM’S HISTORIC TOWN HALL December 11, 2011 FORGET the West End, the eyes of the property world will tomorrow be fixed on Fulham, when the council decides the fate of its historic town hall. The tender to develop the Grade II-listed site, which dates back to 1888, has been narrowed to a list of three developers – one retail, one residential and [...]
Evonik plans real estate sale August 14, 2011 German unlisted chemicals maker Evonik wants to sell the majority of its real estate business’ apartments. Through focusing on its core chemicals business, Evonik hopes to bolster itself for a planned initial public offering (IPO). Evonik’s residential real estate operations, Evonik Immobilien GmbH and THS GmbH jointly hold around 130,000 residential apartments.
Audi’s Sportback is worth the price November 29, 2011 IT’S early Sunday morning. I’d rather be asleep but my daughter has discovered insomnia. After two hours of trying everything to get her back to sleep I succumb to the fail-safe car trip in the hope of inducing her slumber. Outside it’s raining sideways. She’s wailing as I run to the car and wet by [...]
Audi’s Sportback is worth the price November 29, 2011 IT’S early Sunday morning. I’d rather be asleep but my daughter has discovered insomnia. After two hours of trying everything to get her back to sleep I succumb to the fail-safe car trip in the hope of inducing her slumber. Outside it’s raining sideways. She’s wailing as I run to the car and wet by [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS October 5, 2011 Victoria Private Investment Office The financial adviser and wealth management business, previously Victoria Capital, has relaunched as it aims to reach a wider market. Leading the firm’s expansion is Heather Maizels, the former head of Barclays Private Bank, who has been appointed as managing director. As an advisory board member of Barclays Wealth, which she [...]
Unions plot more pension strike action September 14, 2011 BRITISH unions yesterday gave notice that up to a quarter of the country’s workforce could go on strike in November in protest at the government’s public sector pensions reform. The Trades Union Congress, a group of unions that represent 6.5m workers, voted unanimously in favour of industrial action yesterday. Leaders chose the 30 November as [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS August 29, 2011 PKF Trevor Birch, the man who brokered Roman Abramovich’s £120m takeover of Chelsea Football Club, has joined the business adviser PKF as head of the London Corporate Recovery and Insolvency team and a member of the Football Industry Group. Birch is the former chief executive of Chelsea, Leeds United, Everton, Derby County and Sheffield United [...]
Cable retreats on private equity June 6, 2011 Vince Cable, the business secretary, was forced into a climbdown yesterday after officials at his department hastily moved to “clarify” his comments on the role of private equity firms in providing healthcare. Cable told a GMB conference he had ordered officials to investigate if there was an “underlying problem with private equity companies supplying public [...]