Hints and tips:
...The combined $250m investment in Diameter from alternative asset managers Apollo Global Management and Corbin Capital, and the pension fund of renewable energy company Babcock & Wilcox, also hints at a shift...
...Babcock International has hired former Cobham head David Lockwood as chief executive to drive change at the UK defence contractor. More here....
...Enter Hosking, a co-founder of London-based Marathon Asset Management....
...• Stephen Wilcox has joined the UK’s Pension Protection Fund as chief risk officer....
...Babcock has plunged after warning that its full-year results will miss expectations....
...Alex Wilcox, chief executive, says: “Fractional ownership is twice as expensive and our passengers are buying lift not metal. Aeroplanes depreciate and are a liability....
...Beagan Wilcox Volz is associate editor of Ignites, an FT news service...
...Costco, HP Inc and Tiffany & Co are the highlights on the quarterly earnings calendar....
...A five-year update of the SDR expected this week will be closely watched by Babcock....
...In US earnings, the newly divided Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc report, as do Analog Devices, Hormel Foods, Dollar Tree, Campbell Soup and Tiffany & Co....
...“It’s not always about loans and deposits,” says Mr Wilcox. “It’s how you deal with the data you’re entrusted by the public to protect.”...
...Aviation entrepreneur Alex Wilcox, 43, co-founded the private jet airline JetSuite in 2006....
...“The people that make money seem to be in much smaller niches,” says Mark Wilcox, analyst at VisionMobile....
...London-based product designer Dominic Wilcox has created another “invisible” gadget: GPS-enabled shoes inspired by Dorothy’s red shoes in The Wizard of Oz....
...For more coverage, see www.investorschronicle.co.uk...
...“It looks like a supermarket, not like a power generation facility,” says Babcock & Wilcox’s Mr Mowry....
...The Japanese company beat a rival bid from Westinghouse Electric Co by more than double what most analysts had expected, in what will be seen as a big vote of confidence in the UK nuclear sector....
...John Wilcox of Sodali, a governance consultancy, also sees challenges ahead in 2012: “All the principal players – shareholders, regulators, companies and boards – are under pressure to change in fundamental...
...“There is a massive need for this type of liability management,” says Roger Douglas, co head of the longevity markets group at Deutsche Bank....
...Babcock International rose 1.3 per cent to 754½p after Panmure added the outsourcer to its “buy” list....
...The plan involves working with Westinghouse, Toshiba’s US nuclear subsidiary, and the specialist engineering groups Babcock & Wilcox and Shaw, which were involved in clean-up operations at the Three Mile...
...Serco lost 3.2 per cent to 545½p, Babcock International fell 2.5 per cent to 629p and Capita was down 1.7 per cent to 719p after the BBC reported that the government had scaled down plans to outsource public...
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