Barclays’ fat cat extraordinaire
Failure often gets rewarded in the zany world of British plcs and Barclays is no exception. First, the London-based bank chose […]
March 2008
Banks warned to curb payouts as crisis bites
Big five banks admonished by BoE governor Mervyn King as they plead for more support BANK OF England governor Mervyn
Sage of Wall Street gets it wrong… again
Alan Greenspan, a man described as a “bigger threat to the US economy than Osama bin Laden”* in his latter years
Edinburgh fund sues Ericsson
The City of Edinburgh council’s pension fund has committed itself to an aggressive pursuit of Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson in
Absolutely not a dedicated follower of fashion
Standard Life Investments chief executive Keith Skeoch looks back at the eventful decade since the company was spun out of
Pension funds warned over faith in bonds
THE TRUSTEES of UK pension funds, who oversee the investment of some £900 billion of assets, have been chastised for
Carlyle enters self-destructive phase
Having a panoply of former politicians — including the former British prime John Major and former US president George H W Bush
Buzzing into the UK’s institutional honey pot
IT is ten years since Roger Urwin, global head of the investment consulting at Watson Wyatt, galvanised UK pension funds
Infrastructure investing: we’ve only just begun
Institutional investors are waking up to the merits of infrastructure investing and an increasing number of funds dedicated to the