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...Reading The Diaries of Henry “Chips” Channon, an account of the life and often outrageous times of this waspish insider to the world of the British elite, I found an honest confession....
...It is nevertheless worth revisiting Channon’s previous ideas about how Dignity could be better managed....
...The consortium, which is also fronted by City fund manager and former Dignity executive Gary Channon, has already acquired 29 per cent of Dignity’s share capital....
...Dignity agreed the cash offer from a group led by its former chief executive Gary Channon and Sir Peter Wood, founder of insurer Direct Line, as it warned that rising costs would hit its full-year profit...
...“The equity is like the tip of an iceberg of the overall enterprise,” Channon said....
...“It is fantastic that this sort of thing can exist in this age,” confided Chips Channon to his diary of de Redé’s parties....
...And it will be interesting to see what happens with plans to reform the capital structure and leverage — Channon said that “we still expect to do some form of transaction” in this area....
...Yet there is also one very striking thread: the all but unerring inaccuracy of Channon’s political judgments....
...Round on the Links The link was Misters Rudyard Kipling Rochester Martin Sheen Hyde Park Banks Ed (Miliband and Balls) Fox Burns night Peanut Chips Channon...
...Channon, the chief investment officer at Phoenix Asset Management Partners, last month replaced Clive Whiley as Dignity’s executive chair following a shareholder revolt....
...Once home to Sir Henry “Chips” Channon, a US-born Conservative MP whose diaries published during the 1960s were a source of scandal about British high society, in 2003 the Belgravia property, marketed for...
...Channon would not receive any pay if he were appointed executive chair, the group said. The asset manager is now due to present a plan for Dignity at the company’s annual meeting in June....
...Channon would not receive any pay if he were appointed executive chair, the group said. Control of the company will be decided at a general meeting on April 22....
...“That Phoenix has chosen to go public on these matters prematurely serves only as a further illustration of the lack of suitability of Gary Channon to be appointed as someone responsible for the executive...
...The UK fund wants to install its own founder and boss, Gary Channon, as an executive director. Dignity certainly looks like it could use a helping hand....
...Channon’s career may have been unremarkable; his social life was anything but....
...As Channon argues: “We need to think about long-term value rather than initial cost. The knock-on impact on society and government could be huge.”...
...The diarist Chips Channon used words such as “smothered” or “dripping” to describe the way she wore her pieces in the 1930s; one observer commented on how the severity of her outfits was ruined by her taste...
...One to consider might be something I have suggested before — the Aurora Investment Trust run by Gary Channon (disclosure — I hold this trust myself, and so do family members)....
...Such savage encounters as those accompanying the Norway debate, which brought down the prime minister and caused MPs loyal to Neville Chamberlain, such as “Chips” Channon, to shout “quislings!”...
...It opens with Ainsley Channon (“the sixth Channon to head the firm”) summoning Brodie to his office and informing him — over an inevitable dram of whisky — that he is to be sent to Paris, to help revive...
...Gary Channon, co-founder of Phoenix, told the Financial Times in April that Hornby needed “to be cocooned from the pressures of being on the stock market”....
...The diarist Chips Channon once said: “What is more dull than a discreet diary?” The same goes for discreet royal biographies — dull as ditchwater....
...“I went to a slight extreme [but] I learnt a lot about what was going on in that trade,” said Mr Channon....
...He was unable to acquire a British passport for many years until his brother-in-law, Paul Channon, an MP, managed to convince the authorities of Shura’s loyalty to the crown....
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