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...Neil Short, head of London lettings at estate agent JLL, said they were entering bidding wars and offering to pay multiple months’ worth of rent upfront....
...According to estate agency Hamptons, the average monthly rent across the UK was £1,283 in June, 28 per cent higher than in February 2020, at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic....
...In Dorset, Neil Roff, of Winkworth estate agency in Poole, says about 50 per cent of people moving to the area are relocating for access to good primary schools, notably Ofsted-outstanding Lilliput Church...
...Alfresco kitchens were a big talking point at last month’s Chelsea Flower Show, featuring in gardens by both Hamptons and Savills estate agencies....
...In the 12 months to October, the average property price in Pembrokeshire increased 13.7 per cent to £204,710, according to estate agency Hamptons using ONS data....
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...At the top of the company, women make up 50 per cent of the senior leadership team, although BHP will not be in line with recommendations of the UK government-backed Hampton-Alexander review until a new...
...The UK government-backed Hampton-Alexander review has set FTSE 350 companies a target of having 33 per cent of their leadership teams and board members made up of women by 2020....
...Rio said the appointments would bring its board back to full strength with 12 directors, a third of them women — in line with recommendations of the UK government-backed Hampton Alexander review....
...“He’s done a great job,” said Philip Hampton, who served as a non-executive director at Anglo for nine years until 2018....
...Neil Gerrard will retire as co-head of US law firm Dechert’s white collar crime practice after a decade on the job. He is known for leading the fraud investigation against Kazakh mining company ENRC....
...“I think there is a backlash against things that are associated with the 1 per cent among younger people, and that kind of classic, Hamptons, Montauk, striped tee, white jeans, cashmere cardigan look which...
...My colleagues Joshua Chaffin and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson wrote an unforgettable account of how the Hampton elites are coping with the new age of self-quarantine....
...Susan Searle, appointed in 2015 to chair Woodford Patient Capital Trust, previously managed by disgraced stockpicker Neil Woodford, is one the few female investment trust chairs named in the report....
...Mr Hampton, the chairman of drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, joined the board of London-listed Anglo in 2009, the same time as Jack Thompson, a mining executive, who is also stepping down....
...Among Burford’s largest shareholders are troubled stock picker Neil Woodford, below left, through his now-suspended Equity Income Fund, and Invesco, via investments managed by Woodford’s successor and protégé...
...As we wind down lunch, he mentions yet another book he’s currently keen on, The Fourth Turning, written in 1997 by two American historians, William Strauss and Neil Howe....
...This followed the publication of the latest Hampton-Alexander review, which found that the number of female chief executives had fallen from 15 to 12 over the past year....
...Eddie Stobart chief executive Alex Laffey has stepped down from his role at the logistics and haulage company, deepening wounds at Neil Woodford’s embattled flagship Equity Income fund, which is the largest...
...Fund manager Neil Woodford — who was among the group’s top-10 investors, having built up a stake over 15 years — sold his entire £1.2bn holding in May 2017, because his calls for a break-up of its pharmaceuticals...
...“The Long-Term Incentive Plan awards granted in 2015 will vest as to 50 per cent, reflecting full achievement of the three-year return on capital employed target (ROCE), said Philip Hampton, chairman of...
...neil.collins@ft.com A full list of Neil Collins’ financial interests can be found at www.ft.com/collinsportfolio...
...Quiet pressure from shareholders In May last year, UK investor Neil Woodford publicly took drug company GlaxoSmithKline to task for its refusal to consider breaking itself up....
...Neil Carberry, managing director of people and infrastructure at the CBI, the employers group, agreed....
...Neil Munshi is an FT reporter in New York Favourite thing A picture of Herman Wallace, who died of liver cancer days after he was released from prison....
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