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...The Telegraph reports that Smith could invest as much as £20m from his £60m fortune, and that he is set to sever remaining ties with Collins Stewart, the brokerage he led from 1996....
...Neil Collins, a London-based financial journalist, has resigned after it emerged he had written about companies in which he held shares and made trades shortly afterwards, reports the FT....
...David Gardner: Ireland’s fight for economic sovereignty Eighty-eight years after Ireland won independence from Britain, what would Michael Collins, Irish finance minister and insurgent commander, say as...
...While those investors might picture gains earned largely from appreciation in share prices of companies with emerging market business activities, James Wood-Collins, chief executive of Record Currency...
...The FT reports Friday that analysts at Collins Stewart have assessed which companies on Lloyd’s have the greatest exposure: Analysts at Collins Stewart said that of the London companies, Catlin and Hardy...
...Collins Stewart struck a cautiously optimistic note about market conditions after announcing a first-half profit and a round of appointments in corporate broking and securities businesses....
...Partnering an e-reader device maker would help News Corp, which owns book publisher Harper Collins as well as newspapers around the world, but which has said it has no plans to become an appliance maker....
...Shares in Collins Stewart, which have fallen nearly 80% this year, fell 3p, or 7.5%, to close at 37p....
...Shares in Collins Stewart, the UK broker, fell nearly 15% Thursday after it announced it was no longer in takeover talks with an unnamed bidder....
...Collins Stewart said last week it had received a preliminary approach....
...Like many of its peers, Collins Stewart has seen its shares fall some 60% over the past year....
...Nomura, the Japanese bank that indicated interest in Collins Stewart last month, could potentially back such a deal – or, theoretically, leapfrog Collins Stewart and go directly for Dresdner Kleinwort....
...Alex Potter, banking analyst at Collins Stewart, will answer readers’ questions later today, Aug 4. Post questions to ask@ft.com or click the link above....
...Alex Potter, banking analyst at Collins Stewart, will answer readers’ questions at 2pm. So post queries to ask@ft.com or click the link above – and come back to us in the London early afternoon....
...General uncertainty arising from the state of the credit markets is having an adverse impact on Collins Stewart, the UK investment banking group said in an interim statement Monday....
...In its analyst note, Collins Stewart said: We have to assume that the UK financial system will not melt down and that a recovery will emerge in due course....
...Collins Stewart, arguably the trophy asset among the City’s independent broking firms, has had a tentative takeover approach....
...Collins Stewart, the UK investment bank, has kicked off the new year with the opening of an office in Singapore where it plans to take advantage of Catalist, the new Asian rival to London’s Alternative Investment...
...Having jumped 8.4 per cent on Friday, shares in Collins Stewart added another 5 per cent on Monday to trade at 189.5p during early dealings....
...from Collins Stewart’s board....
...The denial came from a Nomura spokesman in Tokyo who denied Nomura was planning a bid for Collins Stewart....
...Collins Stewart, the brokerage and advisory boutique, has signalled interest in buying Winterflood Securities, Close’s stockbroking business. Blackstone still faces stiff competition....
...Shinsei, which was bought and revived by foreign investors including Flowers and Timothy Collins, of US buyout firm Ripplewood, in 2000, said JC Flowers and other investors would bid for a 22.7% stake at...
...Broker Collins Stewart is heading for a High Court showdown with a company called Automated Controls in a row over commission, reports The Daily Telegraph....
...The results, the broker’s first since its demerger from Collins Stewart last year, were affected by the £301.5m payout to existing shareholders....
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