Archive for May, 2011

Will The Banks Mend Their Ways? – Management Today

Posted on 31. May, 2011 by .

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Will The Banks Mend Their Ways? Management Today Gone are the days when the investment banks could gear themselves up 30 times or more. It was, ultimately, that high leverage that did for Lehman Brothers and triggered the meltdown.

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Brits blast off – Management Today

Posted on 31. May, 2011 by .

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Brits blast off Management Today The funds will, in part, go towards a new International Space Innovation Centre at Harwell in Oxfordshire, an incubator for space businesses designed to 'get academia, small companies and big companies working together'. The other change the Government ..

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The triple crunch won’t be pretty. But will it banish our economic torpor? – The Guardian

Posted on 31. May, 2011 by .

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The triple crunch won't be pretty. But will it banish our economic torpor

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Scottish corporation tax row sparks tensions with Northern Ireland – The Guardian

Scottish corporation tax row sparks tensions with Northern Ireland – The Guardian

Posted on 31. May, 2011 by .

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The Guardian Scottish corporation tax row sparks tensions with Northern Ireland The Guardian But senior economists have warned that it would have a direct impact on Scotland's £30bn Treasury grant, which funds all of Scotland's domestic services and policies, including hospitals, schools, policing, prisons and roads. Salmond is already facing ..

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Firm names passenger vessels – Greenock Telegraph

Posted on 31. May, 2011 by .

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Firm names passenger vessels Greenock Telegraph “It is unlikely that the vehicle service could have been sustained without investment in new vessels.

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Name change for Liverpool investment experts – Click Liverpool

Name change for Liverpool investment experts – Click Liverpool

Posted on 31. May, 2011 by .

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Click Liverpool Name change for Liverpool investment experts Click Liverpool It has over 600 staff located at its 11 regional offices in Belfast, Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Farnham, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Reigate and Sheffield and has a history of investment management stretching back to 1827. …

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Time to look at Scotland’s plan in bid to improve standards – Belfast Telegraph

Posted on 31. May, 2011 by .

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Time to look at Scotland's plan in bid to improve standards Belfast Telegraph The Executive must seek to improve access to capital funds . Some capital funds might be raised through the sale of publicly owned assets. However, at present that is commercially ill-advised while property prices are regarded as unusually low

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Pro-development stance would give charter to build – Financial Times

Posted on 30. May, 2011 by .

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Pro-development stance would give charter to build Financial Times A first step given the lack of public funds would be to take a more pro-development stance in the forthcoming national planning policy framework. At least then the industry would have a charter to build.

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Africa pioneer eyes new ground for Cluff Gold – Financial Times

Posted on 30. May, 2011 by .

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Africa pioneer eyes new ground for Cluff Gold Financial Times A self-described “romantic Tory”, Mr Cluff owned the right-leaning Spectator magazine for four years in the 1980s and served as chairman for more than 20 years until the Barclay brothers bought the publication in 2004. Mr Cluff and his fellow gold ..

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Unmasked: The spy hired by hedge-fund queen to snoop on staff… and her husband – Daily Mail

Unmasked: The spy hired by hedge-fund queen to snoop on staff… and her husband – Daily Mail

Posted on 29. May, 2011 by .

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Daily Mail Unmasked: The spy hired by hedge-fund queen to snoop on staff… and her husband Daily Mail Mr Gover, who was sacked – unfairly, he says – in December 2008, had begun to ¬discuss the idea of creating a London-based investment management business with another former Ikos employee.

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