The Notebook: Fascinating insights from Blackstone’s co-founder Stephen Schwarzman February 1, 2024 Rachel Reeves has now promised not to reimpose the cap on banker’s bonuses that was finally removed by the Government last year.
The Notebook: Davos is a three-star ski resort – but it’s a worthwhile jamboree January 17, 2024 Neil Bennett is a former City journalist and now global co-chief executive of H/Advisors, a strategic comms advisory firm. He writes for City A.M. fortnightly – this week, from Davos DAVOS gets a bad rap. Every year as World Economic Forum’s conference kicks off in that maddeningly remote, three-star ski resort, there is no shortage [...]
The Notebook: Neil Bennett on how a sluggish SFO is undermining justice December 11, 2023 H/Advisors co-CEO Neil Bennett takes the Notebook pen to talk the opera, Singapore and the perils of delayed justice.
The Notebook: Neil Bennett on why Cameron’s comeback is a welcome return of statesmanship November 15, 2023 Neil Bennett, global Co-CEO H/Advisors, on the welcome return of statesmanship into the Cabinet, City jobs cuts and a West End recommendation.
The Notebook: Neil Bennett on replacing himself with AI November 1, 2023 The notebook is a place for interesting people to say interesting things. Today, it’s the turn of global co-CEO of H/Advisors, Neil Bennett. What to look out for at the AI Summit, from Elon to lip service I, or artificial intelligence, has been the talk of the town for quite some time now. The technology [...]
The Notebook: Neil Bennett on leaky deals, an archaic City ritual and a podcast with a point July 19, 2023 In his latest column for City A.M., the former journalist and now global co-CEO of advisory and communications firm H/Advisors gives his take on the Square Mile’s latest Deal leaks are part of the City’s plumbing A few days ago my firm, H/Advisors, published a survey about leaks, the financial information kind rather than plumbing [...]
The Notebook: Neil Bennett on Thames Water’s future, Iceland’s remarkable recovery and Twitter’s new rival July 5, 2023 The Notebook is where interesting people say interesting things. Today it’s Neil Bennett, global co-chief executive of advisory firm H/Advisors Where next for Thames Water? However big and powerful they appear, businesses are in reality fragile creatures. Many thousands of them fail every year for all sorts of reasons, and today’s behemoth is tomorrow’s insolvency [...]
The Notebook: Neil Bennett on scale-up funding, bounce-back Britain and a Love Supreme June 14, 2023 Roll up, roll up ladies and gentlemen for the greatest sale on earth, a once in a generation opportunity to snap up corporate assets at unrepeatable prices. If you don’t, my (imaginary) new investment firm, Car Boot Capital, will certainly do so. It is a truth universally acknowledged that we are living through a liquidity [...]
The Notebook: Neil Bennett on Dubai’s past, present and future June 1, 2023 The Notebook is where interesting people say interesting things. Today, it’s Neil Bennett, global co-ceo of H/Advisors, a comms and advisory firm… Going green in the town that oil built I’m in Dubai for the launch of our new H/Advisors’ office here. We are focusing on sustainability communications as the city and the whole of [...]
Bennett on Business: London listings and the Bank’s bitter Pill May 17, 2023 Neil Bennett discusses London's IPO problem, the Bank's chief economist and more in his fortnightly City A.M. column
