By Ian Fraser Sunday Herald March 20th, 2005 SHAREHOLDERS in the Royal Bank of Scotland should consider various options for enhancing the value of their shares, such as selling the Edinburgh group to Citigroup, a break-up including flotations of Coutts and Citizens, or even a leveraged buy-out. RBS house broker Merrill Lynch last week said [...]
By Ian Fraser and Teresa Hunter Sunday Herald March 13th, 2005 HEDGE funds are to come out of the cold and into the investment mainstream at a major conference in Edinburgh this week. The National Association of Pension Funds, whose members look after more than £600 billion for UK employees and pensioners, is holding its [...]
By Ian Fraser Sunday Herald March 6th, 2005 The building society turned bank is to shed its ‘dress shop’ image in a bid to win back customers. Ian Fraser questions the logic IT may go down as one of the biggest rebranding disasters in corporate history. When, in September 2003, Luqman Arnold, then chief executive [...]