Patience is a virtue
In Central and Eastern Europe, private equity has been welcomed and the opportunities are plentiful — if you know the […]
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Locke’s £120 million stock … and lots of barrels
CONVENTIONAL wisdom has it that the credit crunch has made big private-equity buyouts a thing of the past. However, Alasdair
Labour ruining Tory legacy, says Locke
ONE OF Scotland’s leading oil magnates has launched a stinging attack on the Labour government, accusing it of destroying the
Scottish Agenda: Why Scottish Water needs a fresh treatment
Calls for Scottish Water to be taken out of state ownership and turned into a mutual like Wales’s Glas Cymru
Few tears as British Linen shuts Scots office
A CORPORATE finance practice that was launched with some fanfare and whose backers included some of Scotland’s most high-profile businesspeople,
Ossian dumps three buyout executives as profits slide
ONE of Scotland’s leading retail companies has ousted three of the four-strong management team that led a private equity-backed buyout
Provident to stay Scottish
ROYAL LONDON, the parent company of Edinburgh-based insurers Scottish Life and Bright Grey, has said there will be no significant
Accountants face up to the moral maze
David Molyneaux was leading an ethics course for senior Vietnamese accountants and regulators in Hanoi in August when one participant
Goodwin hunting
Businessperson of the Year: Sir Fred Goodwin THE €71 billion (£49 billion) takeover of Dutch bank ABN Amro was a
Scottish Agenda: Quiet achiever has grown quicker than Kwik
WHEN Sir Tom Farmer sold Kwik-Fit for £1 billion in 1999, the deal received wall-to-wall coverage in the Scottish press.
Impasse over Fife scheme
Rosyth waterfront redevelopment not favoured by Fife Council A PROPOSED redevelopment of the Rosyth waterfront that would create 6,000 jobs
Crunch hits Ward fund
A group of prominent Edinburgh financiers have lost more than £80 million because their favoured investment vehicle made a big
Bouncing back: Colin McLean interview
SVM Asset Management’,’s Colin McLean believes that many hedge fund managers have dodged the fall-out from the subprime crisis from
130/30 funds: better mousetraps or money-makers?
One hundred and thirty /thirty funds are suddenly all the rage. But is the surge in such funds a response
The Morning Interview: Colin McLean warns of infectious US recession
SVM co-founder Colin McLean warns the credit crunch will hit the UK economy and housing market hard, with small and
Global vision
In the light of RBS’s success in the acquisition of ABN Amro, Ian Fraser takes the long view of Scotland’s
ICAS ethics course helps students to shine
New ethics course becomes fundamental to accountancy training The first batch of students to complete the Institute of Chartered Accountants
Bank of England likely to increase rates despite signs of a downturn
The response of the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street to the summer’s credit crunch – which again tightened its grip
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Test case over “unfair” charges could spur banks to levy more
Office of Fair Trading raises landmark court action against UK banks BANK CUSTOMERS could face a “blizzard of additional charges
Fund managers’ stock continues to rise: An overview of Scotland’s fund management sector
Scotland’s fund management businesses have become adept at readjusting their rigging in the event of sailing into squalls, storms or
Policy for change: An overview of Scotland’s insurance industry
Cost cuts and M&A creating uncertainty for insurance sector as Standard Life and Aegon shine For decades, the insurance industry