WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING April 9, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES AstraZeneca faces calls for shake-up Some of the biggest investors in AstraZeneca are calling for a radical shake-up of the board and executive team, as a new chairman prepares to join the underperforming Anglo-Swedish pharma group. With the company trading on the lowest price/earnings multiple in the sector, some shareholders have been lobbying [...]
RAPID RESPONSES March 25, 2012 Priority boarding [Re: A third runway at Heathrow is essential if London is to be a globally competitive city, Friday] Paul Willis is right that Boris Island is imaginative but twenty years away. The short-term answer is for government to dictate that only strategic business routes are served by Heathrow. New routes to China and [...]
RAPID RESPONSES March 25, 2012 Priority boarding [Re: A third runway at Heathrow is essential if London is to be a globally competitive city, Friday] Paul Willis is right that Boris Island is imaginative but twenty years away. The short-term answer is for government to dictate that only strategic business routes are served by Heathrow. New routes to China and [...]
The CFA: A qualification defined by ethics May 28, 2012 FOR investment professionals with an eye to further their careers, the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification provides a broad-based foundation. Described by the CFA Institute as “a globally recognised, graduate-level investment credential,” the course takes place on three levels, built around the idea that all should be educated in a rigorous corpus of shared knowledge. [...]
Budget could be surprisingly radical March 18, 2012 MAYBE, just maybe, this Budget could end up being a big deal, a defining shift in direction for the coalition and the day George Osborne finally rediscovers his radical inner self. I certainly hope so, and there are growing signs that this may be the case – but instigating a revolution would require breaking away [...]
Marketing is changing, but won’t be unrecognisable April 4, 2012 SIMON Middleton, in his book What You Need to Know About Marketing, describes the profession as “one of the earliest activities ever undertaken by mankind.” Like another early profession, it is often perceived as “of dubious morality.” Middleton explains that the impulse to market is misunderstood. Marketing is simply about building relationships between businesses and [...]
Private funds show interest in toll roads March 19, 2012 PENSION funds have agreed to invest £2bn in infrastructure projects by the end of next year, David Cameron announced yesterday, beginning what the government hopes will become a flood of private sector investment. He told an audience of engineers that the country needs an extra £500bn of investment to update and replace its aging infrastructure, [...]
FTSE buoyed by retailers as investors eye Budget March 21, 2012 THE FTSE 100 headed up in early trading as retailers regained some momentum while investors were turning their attention to the Chancellor’s budget speech. George Osborne is expected to rejig taxes while seeking to keep his austerity plan on track. However figures showing that that public sector net borrowing hit a record for February cast [...]
Private sector boosts building May 18, 2011 PRIVATE sector activity is driving the UK’s construction industry forwards again, a survey revealed today. Workloads in the building industry shot up in the first three months of the year, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said. Workloads were up by a net balance of six per cent, from a decline of five per [...]
Banks €485bn short of Basel capital targets April 12, 2012 THE WORLD’S largest international banks need to shore up their balance sheets to the tune of hundreds of billions of euros if they are to hit regulatory targets to improve financial stability, a report from the Basel Committee revealed yesterday. The monitoring report also revealed most banks fail to meet liquidity coverage ratio requirements, and [...]