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June 28th, 2007 First entry in this diary. The first entry in this blog is about what appears to be unadulterated greed in the legal profession. I’m increasingly worried that something might be rotten at the heart of the law. Scanning through the pages of Legal Business — a magazine which, a bit like The […]
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By Ian Fraser The Herald June 25th, 2007 SANDY Manson, who took over from Patrick Machray as chief executive of Scotland’s largest independent accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael earlier this month, has outlined his vision for the firm. In his first interview since stepping up to the chief executive’s role on June 1, Manson said he […]
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By Ian Fraser The Herald June 11th, 2007 TWO more “magic circle” law firms have smashed through the barrier of making more than £1m profit per equity partner. In doing so, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Clifford Chance join an elite club which includes Slaughter & May and Linklaters, both of which breached the “psychologically important” […]
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By Ian Fraser The Herald June 11th, 2007 One of Scotland’s leading independent accountancy firms has signed up the Oloroso restaurant co-owner and leading forensic accountant and corporate financier Frank McMorrow to lead a push into the arcane world of forensic accounting. McMorrow, who spent 13 years at KPMG before working for a Glasgow-based independent […]
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By Ian Fraser Scottish Business Insider June 6th, 2007 Insider’s annual survey of Scotland’s top corporate accountancy firms reveals confidence across all tiers amid a near frenzy of mergers & acquisitions. MERGERS and acquisitions are a dominant theme for Scotland’s accountancy profession at the moment. Firstly, there are mergers between firms, such as the recent […]
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By Ian Fraser Scottish Business Insider June 6th, 2007 With client and regulatory disquiet over lack of competition, mid-tier firms not already in there are eager to take work from the Big Four. Are they good enough? THERE is a battle going on in the accountancy profession over audit. Many of the mid-tier firms are […]
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By Ian Fraser Fund AIM (Alternatives Intelligence Magazine) June 4th, 2007 IN Australia, the threat of global warming finally hit the political mainstream in April, when it was cited as the cause for a severe drought in the Murray-Darling basin that is causing some landowners to allow irrigated farmland to return to desert. Meanwhile in […]
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By Ian Fraser Published: The Herald Date: June 4th, 2007 THE government should give serious thought to taxing the revenues earned in virtual worlds such as Linden Labs’ Second Life, according to a leading Scottish-based tax specialist. Launched in 2003 by San Francisco-based Linden Labs, Second Life has more than five million registered users and […]
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By Ian Fraser Financial Times FTfm section June 4th, 2007 After near collapse four years ago Euronova is now looking to expand, says Ian Fraser AMANDA Swanson acknowledges that Euronova Asset Management, the hedge fund boutique that she co-founded in 2000, came close to the brink of collapse four years ago. As global markets plummeted […]
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By Ian Fraser Impact (the magazine of the law firm Rosenblatt Solicitors) June 4th, 2007 Real estate has never been more fashionable. Property investment funds are exploding as strong demand from investors inflates value. Not everyone is bullish, however, but even the sceptics might be attracted by the array of property hedge funds on offer, […]
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