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...Jupiter Fund Management chair Nichola Pease is stepping down, citing personal reasons. Chief operating officer David Cruickshank will take her place....
...Additional reporting by Primrose Riordan in Hong Kong and Nicholas Megaw in London...
...A keen cyclist and father of four, he was a protégé of John Flint, who previously ran the division before a shortlived stint as chief executive that ended with his ousting by chairman Mark Tucker....
...John Flint — The comeback kid Mr Flint was just 51 years old when he was ousted as chief executive of HSBC in August after only 18 months in the job, following a boardroom bust-up with its chairman Mark Tucker...
...Republican congressman Jim Banks took to Tucker Carlson’s conservative television talk show to accuse Meng of steering $3.1bn into Chinese stocks on behalf of Beijing’s Communist party....
...The lender has recently shown more appetite to recruit externally for top positions and last year it hired Mark Tucker, the former head of Asian insurer AIA, as its first external chairman....
...The announcement comes less than a fortnight after Mark Tucker took over as HSBC chairman....
...Current board members Robert Keegan, Charles Prince, Ann Reese, William Curt Hunter, Sara Martinez Tucker and Stephen Rusckowski will resign as part of the agreement....
...More important for the bank is to recruit a boss who is strong where Mr Tucker is weak and can play a calming tune when Mr Tucker runs ahead of himself....
...Tucker says with pride that she has never before seen a kitchen where a grill is next to a wok station....
...favourites for the role of deputy governor at the Bank of England have not applied for the job, according to people close to the process, making George Osborne’s challenge in finding a successor to Paul Tucker...
...In the arts, sculptor Anish Kapoor, who designed the ArcelorMittal Orbit in London’s Olympic Park, was made a knight while Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate, was made a companion of honour....
..., believe they are a real life Tucker, seek to lie to the media, or when, as a few Labour spads did, they try to bully their departments....
...Nicholas Moore, Macquarie chief executive, told the Financial Times in an interview that bankers remained attracted to the group for a variety of reasons, including its strong position in Asia and the opportunity...
...“Without question, merger clearance in China is a major issue for global companies considering M&A,” says Nicholas French, co-head of Freshfields’ China competition practice....
...It would be very easy to tucker down – to zip off to Portugal and play golf.” I’m one of Niall Mackay’s villagers who think he is doing a good job....
...Nicholas Moore, Macquarie chief executive, has talked up the opportunities in the asset management sector this year as financial services groups sought to shed assets....
...Nicholas Moore, chief executive, said recently the company was seeing “a range of [buying] opportunities coming [its] way”....
...Macquarie’s investment bankers are led by Nicholas Moore, who is admired and feared in equal measure for his aggressive dealmaking....
...Too much choice can hinder Using current taxes to pay pensions has long been the bedrock of most developed countries’ pension systems, write Sundeep Tucker, Päivi Munter and Nicholas Timmins....
...Tucker, New York Mohammed Sharaf: It’s impossible to say what information terrorist could use, but it seems that public information tells them more than enough....
...Nicholas Moore, Macquarie’s head of investment banking, says the bank’s success is due to its strong culture and virtually non-existent staff turnover at senior level. The pay is not bad either....
...He admires Nicholas Hytner for trying to set this agenda at the National Theatre today, but doesn’t think it necessarily makes for good work....
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