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...Their hesitancy follows criticism about their work for large UK employers including retailer BHS, construction group Carillion and Thomas Cook travel agency....
...Bill Michael wants KPMG back in the good books After construction group Carillion collapsed in 2018, one UK MP declared that he “wouldn’t hire KPMG to audit the contents of my fridge”....
...Transparency is essential, with investors able to check easily on the rationale behind an index, its construction and methodology....
...As in sport, so in consulting, except in one important regard. Consulting, unlike the Olympics, is about the winning, not the taking part....
...Activist battles 3: Autodesk THE BUSINESS A California-based software designer that supplies the engineering, construction and manufacturing industries....
...He joins from Fidelity Worldwide, where he spent eight years in a variety of roles related to portfolio construction and risk....
...“Historically, these companies have traded from a very strong domestic base with government support,” notes Daniel Grosvenor, head of UK nuclear consulting at Deloitte....
...financial services company, and Strategic Insight, a research consultancy. ”The next wave of growth for ETFs is being driven by new asset classes, new indexes and new ways of using ETFs as tools for portfolio construction...
...International companies in sectors such as retail, travel and construction have unsurprisingly been early losers....
...Traditional asset managers may also be squeezed by the rise of “virtual” managers, currently 9 per cent of the marketplace, which replicate the implemented consulting model, outsourcing the actual investment...
...Frank Campanale, a former Smith Barney Consulting unit head, is leading its brokerage and the construction of high-end adviser product and technology platforms....
...On Hawaii’s big island, Westbrook Partners LLC, Farallon Capital Management LLC and Lodging Capital Partners LLC bought the 540-room Fairmont Orchid Hawaii in 2005 for $250 million....
...government loans, there is also talk of major nuclear vendors providing some funding,” said Ken Metcalfe, a nuclear electric generation expert and president of the Kenrich Group, a business and litigation consulting...
...Last year, the top two each added 2,000 rooms, compared with French-based Accor’s 449 rooms and Express by Holiday Inn with 356, according to research by TRI Hospitality Consulting....
...Andrew Godfrey, head of family business consulting at Grant Thornton, concedes there is nothing inherently better about family-owned companies and there are some built-in weaknesses....
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