Isa millionaires: A guide to building tax-free prosperity March 28, 2012 There is a split between the chancers that struck it rich through a risky strategy and those investors that applied more reasoned judgements THE end of another tax year looms, but it seems from figures released by HM Revenue and Customs for 2010/11 that as far as investment Isas are concerned, we’ve seen more talk [...]
A great growth market for London January 26, 2012 IT’S Friday, so for once let me recount a positive, upbeat success story. Increasingly, we are paying our way in the world by attracting visitors from overseas, who spend lots and sustain a growing number of jobs. London is third in the Euromonitor overseas visitor rankings, behind Hong Kong and Singapore. We are easily the [...]
A great growth market for London January 26, 2012 IT’S Friday, so for once let me recount a positive, upbeat success story. Increasingly, we are paying our way in the world by attracting visitors from overseas, who spend lots and sustain a growing number of jobs. London is third in the Euromonitor overseas visitor rankings, behind Hong Kong and Singapore. We are easily the [...]
ITE expands in Ukraine November 28, 2011 Exhibitions group ITE has snapped up a raft of small Ukrainian exhibitions with the acquisition of Autoexpo, it said yesterday. ITE’s chief executive officer Russell Taylor said: “The addition of this portfolio of exhibitions to ITE’s Ukrainian business is consistent with our strategy of building market leading positions in core markets and sectors.”
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF November 20, 2011 BOOST FOR YOUTH ENTERPRISE EDUCATION Youth Business International and the RBS Group are sponsoring Global Entrepreneurship Week this month. The event will involve over 200,000 participants around the UK and will involve schools, colleges and universities focusing on teaching enterprise skills. The week follows the recent trend of encouraging young entrepreneurs to build on their [...]
Activists break into Xstrata’s London site November 30, 2011 PROTESTERS from the Occupy movement stormed the London base of mining giant Xstrata yesterday to highlight the pay package of its chief executive. Activists also climbed onto the roof of the Haymarket building, set off flares to the soundtrack of samba music and hung a banner declaring: “All power to the 99 per cent”. The [...]
Signs of a solution in Greece send the FTSE edging higher February 9, 2012 BRITAIN’S top share index closed modestly higher yesterday, supported by oil and banking stocks after BG Group reported strong results and Greece moved closer to securing a bailout package that will avert a chaotic default. The FTSE 100 closed 19.54 points or 0.3 per cent higher at 5,895.47 after hitting a six-month intraday high of [...]
Halifax: Housing market will stay weak December 12, 2011 WEAK economic growth and persistent high unemployment will hold down house prices through 2012, Halifax warned yesterday in its housing market outlook. Only record low interest rates will help stop the market falling further, the bank’s economists claimed, although mortgage funding pressures are expected to weaken this support. Prices will keep rising in London, according [...]
2012 should be the year we get off the couch and make companies more productive January 2, 2012 WELL-BEING in the workplace is a value to which employers and workers alike have signed up. Psychology textbooks, that hardly mentioned the subject in the recessionary 1970s, are now full of strategies to promote emotional “well-being at work”. It’s not about old-fashioned pay and conditions, but how you feel at and about work. Even when [...]
2012 should be the year we get off the couch and make companies more productive January 2, 2012 WELL-BEING in the workplace is a value to which employers and workers alike have signed up. Psychology textbooks, that hardly mentioned the subject in the recessionary 1970s, are now full of strategies to promote emotional “well-being at work”. It’s not about old-fashioned pay and conditions, but how you feel at and about work. Even when [...]