Hints and tips:
...“There isn’t an interest rate anywhere in the world that looks attractive once you take inflation into account,” said David Vickers, a multi-asset portfolio manager at Russell Investments....
...Paul Locke joins from Canaccord Genuity and Darren Vickers from Westhouse Securities. Bradley George also moves to the US to become head of the US client group at Investec AM....
.... ——————————————- Letters in response to this report: ‘Big four’ need to consider interests of Hong Kong’s people / From Mr Bill Rylance Bully tactics by accounting firms / From Dr Edward Vickers...
...Led by chairman Robin Budenberg, a former UBS banker and key adviser to the last government at the time of the 2008 bailouts, and with Mr O’Neil, a longtime equities banker, as its CEO, the agency has been...
...Robin Xu of UBS Robin Xu joined UBS in August 2006, covering the port and toll road sectors in China....
...Sir David Cooksey, the 71-year-old chairman, is retiring, with the current chief executive Robin Budenberg moving up to replace him....
...Steve Vickers, a veteran of two decades with the Hong Kong police and now head of his own consultancy, Steve Vickers and Associates, says such red flags include margins that are way out of line with competitors...
...In particular UKFI is waiting for the final proposals from the Sir John Vickers-led Independent Commission on Banking, which is thrashing out the details of a plan to force banks to ring-fence their UK retail...
...In his new biography, Behind Closed Doors, Hugo Vickers includes two items for which I too can vouch....
...It is highly unlikely that they will have to submit to a “Robin Hood” tax on financial transactions....
...Vickers looks both ways Like the double-faced Roman god Janus, Sir John Vickers this week rendered himself both ally and scourge of the British taxpayer....
...One is something we have now heard clearly from many sources – a plea endorsed by the Vickers Commission that routine banking business should be clearly separated from speculative transactions....
...Other supporters include headhunter Jan Hall, private equity boss Jon Moulton and UKFI chief Robin Budenberg....
...Sir John Vickers, who is leading the commission, has argued for a clearer separation of retail and investment banking activities, measures that are fiercely opposed by the industry....
...The chancellor’s bank levy will raise only a fraction of what the Robin Hood tax could raise....
...As COO of UKFI, he worked closely with previous chief John Kingman and his successor Robin Budenberg, and was heavily involved in negotiations over bank bonuses....
...Robin Murray, professor of psychiatry, King’s College London. David Newbigging, former chairman, Cancer Research UK. Keith Porter, consultant, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine....
...That body, chaired by Sir John Vickers, is under pressure from politicians – led by business secretary Vince Cable – to reduce Lloyds’ dominant market share in consumer banking....
...Ben Santoso of DBS Vickers, Asia’s top stock picker in food, household and personal products, says that last year had been preceded by the biggest price drop for commodities since the Asian financial crisis...
...And the 1970s had given birth to a brood of CDP-inspired hotshops – BMP, Abbott Mead Vickers, Bartle Bogle Hegarty – which were now taking the profits, clients and awards....
...The girl who looks like a boy turns out to be Robin, and Anthea falls in love with her. Midge is terrified by her sister’s metamorphosis into “a gay”....
...Abbott Mead Vickers Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO has been the biggest advertising agency in the country since it knocked Saatchi Saatchi off the top spot for billings in 1996....
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