Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Tony Kent’s The Shadow Network (Elliot & Thompson, £16.99) is the latest outing for his team of Joe Dempsey and Michael Devlin....
...The choreographer’s storytelling genius, aided by the movie’s scenarist Caroline Thompson, makes short work of exposition....
...Mark Thompson, the former BBC director-general who went on to become chief executive of The New York Times until 2020, also receives a knighthood....
...P&G’s shares rose about 85 per cent during that time and the US group followed through on Trian’s demands to simplify its structure in 2018....
...Emma Thompson simply wanted to chat, allowing Levine to capture her in a rainbow of emotions for a recent New Yorker profile. For John, he took a sonic approach....
...Like previous winners — including Helen Fielding and Terry Pratchett — Everett received champagne, a complete set of PG Wodehouse and will have a pig named after his winning book, a nod to Wodehouse’s fondness...
...Thompson would take LSD and then go to a police convention, and I never did that....
...The great bassist Danny Thompson was the next to leave (he soon released his own debut solo album, Whatever), replaced by Nigel Portman-Smith....
...The classic example is Tesco’s Terry Leahy, regarded as one of the great retail managers of his generation when he quit....
...Dobell stepped down from the fund and left M&G at the end of 2020....
...Top-10 shareholder Terry Smith, of Fundsmith, said it had “lost the plot” after seeking to define the purpose of brands such as Hellmann’s mayonnaise....
...“Terry basically said, ‘this is sandbagging — your numbers are way off,” Yeung says....
...Shares in the FTSE 100 company have trailed peers such as Nestlé, P&G and even Danone in the past year. Investors such as Fundsmith’s Terry Smith can expect Unilever to continue trying their patience....
...Angharad Lyddon’s stylish Irene benefits from firm mezzo tone and Patrick Terry sang and played a restrained Andronico....
...“Nelson is actually helpful,” says a person close to P&G’s board....
...P&G’s shares have sharply outperformed Unilever during that period. “Activist investors will look at P&G and say: Is there a similar thing to be done at Unilever?”...
...who now sits on the boards of asset manager M&G and insurer Bupa....
...Peltz’s stint at Unilever will probably be a smoother one than at P&G, where he waged a bitter proxy battle, Lex notes....
...Bannon’s charges raise memories of the 1970s Watergate scandal, when G Gordon Liddy, one of the organisers of the burglary at the Democratic National Committee that triggered the furore, was found guilty...
...said Terry Smith, founder and chief executive of Fundsmith, who said he had more than £250m invested in the funds he manages, which is “a substantial proportion of my wealth”....
...Sir Jon Thompson, FRC chief executive, said the UK’s stewardship code was “recognised globally as a best-practice benchmark in investment stewardship”....
...Clare Thompson, chair of M&G’s audit committee, will take on the role of interim senior independent director, while Mr Evans is on leave....
...Other, better-performing funds including Terry Smith’s Fundsmith, which refused to cut their fees, were left off the list. Hargreaves cut Woodford Equity Income Fund from its list last week....
...M&G’s £2.5bn property fund and a range of bond funds run by Natixis subsidiary H2O Asset Management were also hit....
...If so, it suggests a laxity toward Section 2, principle G of the code: “There should be a clear division of responsibilities between the leadership of the board and the executive leadership”....
International Edition