Hints and tips:
...I planted a dozen Siegerrebbe vines on my plots when I first took them on and I’m now chuffed to be able to offer guests wine made from their output....
...“Emerging markets have done a good job at navigating this inflation shock and I’m not sure you could say the same about some of the western central banks”....
...I’m not going to complain about that....
...“The banking system, I’m assured, is in a much better position in terms of its balance sheet and its understanding of the liabilities that it is managing.”...
...Richard Vickers, CEO at recruiting firm Search Consultancy, shared his thoughts with us: There is a misconception that all people want from their work is flexibility and a higher salary....
...Main reports Monday Pearson; Direct Line Insurance Tuesday Continental; Standard Life Aberdeen; M&G; ITV; TP ICAP Wednesday Franco Nevada; Oracle; Adidas; Lukoil; Cathay Pacific Airways; Pirelli; Legal...
...H&M, the world’s second-largest fashion retailer will reveal how hard it was hit by a new set of lockdowns in the three months to the end of November....
...Wonderfully, many of Benson’s designs are reproduced by Christopher Vickers, a specialist craftsman-designer, who founded his Somerset studio in 1987....
...I’m ultimately less worried about Russian influence than Big Tech influence....
...I’m glad that Frankie Cole enjoys a grandmotherly relationship with her neighbour’s children (Letters, FT Weekend, December 14) but her letter misses the point the review of Salley Vickers’ “Grandmothers...
...Reviewing Salley Vickers’ new novel Grandmothers (“For all nankind, December 7), Lucy Scholes suggests that “being an old woman without grandchildren surely has its own issues”. Why?...
...I’d have more confidence in the 1919 Vickers....
...“I’m fearing it is going to be the latter.”...
...It was apparently he who disagreed with ex-CEO Mark Wilson that a complex cross-selling strategy justified his ‘Figjam’ nickname (F*** I’m good, just ask me)....
...Peter Mead, [co-founder of advertising agency Abbott Mead Vickers] who wrote a great book When In Doubt Be Nice. A very different philosophy to most of that time....
...John Vickers, a former director-general of the Office of Fair Trading, has warned that ministers’ plans for a more intrusive takeover regime are “disproportionate” and threaten the British economy....
...Laughing with a “hysterical piglet squeal”, the duke is prone to pointless commentaries on his inner thoughts: “I’m sorry to say this wind is going to make me very cwoss and irritable today.”...
...Mr Coutts of Fitch Ratings said he thinks more M&A activity is on the way, especially for some of the smaller reinsurers....
...Additional reporting by Laura Hughes, Sebastian Payne and Jim Pickard in London Letter in response to this article: Johnson knows he is not up to the job / From Albion M Urdank, Los Angeles, CA, US...
...I’m lucky enough to have judged the prize twice, and at two important inflection points in its history....
...Job moves Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Amy Mahon to join its London-based M&A practice as a partner. She joins from Clifford Chance....
...Over the years, it has accumulated the largest land bank among Chinese developers, reaching 312m sq m at the end of 2017, compared with 132m sq m for Vanke and 282m sq m for Country Garden....
...That will fall by 16 per cent to 7.9m sq m this year....
...In a note to clients earlier this month, analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, the investment bank, wrote: “We still expect elevated M&A activity over the course of 2018, with the perceived scarcity value...
...As for his own candidacy, he says simply: “My inbox is absolutely huge …I’m head down getting on with [this] job.” Much of that inbox involves planning for Brexit — in part advising the government....
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