This month's award for the most musically gifted PR goes to Lansons' Richard Winder, headlining the Diary's new fave band Numbernine. Winder's tunes packed out the famed Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell, even managing a D-List celebrity turnout which included half the cast of The Bill.
A special mention also goes to Liz Willder for excellence in the field of phone retrieval for hiking from bar to bar all over Farringdon to find the Diary's phone. Thanks, Liz.
House price inflation will slow sharply in the next two years, according to the latest inflation report from the Bank of England. The report says the factors which keep the housing market buoyant are subject to great uncertainty. Although there are reasons to suppose the ratio of house prices to earnings might remain higher than […]
I was born in 1945. My mother had a crush on an actor called Melvyn Douglas and I was given the same Christian name. In 1972, when I joined the National Provident Institution, I replaced somebody with the same Christian name. He had been referred to as “Mel” and, subsequently, so was I. Time passed […]
New Star made an operating profit of £10.6m in the year to December 2003 as its acquisition programme began to pay dividends ahead of a planned flotation in the Autumn. The company, which made a loss of £9.2m in 2002, saw turnover more than double to £45.9m, which it attributes to its recent purchases, organic […]
Norwich Union is the first major product provider to commit to the child trust fund after signing a partnership agreement with Children's Mutual for the development of the product. Both parties say the deal – which sees NU share CM's admin and product development – is essential to achieve the economies of scale needed for […]
RLAM’s asset class specialists discuss some of the findings from the panel session at our recent Investment Conference. By Rob Williams, Head of Distribution Welcome to the latest edition of Leading Edge. It has been an eventful six months since the last e-zine. The European Central Bank announced ongoing stimulus measures, while the immigration crisis in Europe threw the […]
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Aim listed advice and investment firm Harwood Wealth Management has continued its run of acquisitions with a deal to buy an Ascot-based retirement advice specialist. Harwood has acquired the assets of Plan65 for up to £1.56m depending on performance, with an initial payment of £810,000 coming out of Harwood’s existing cash reserve and the rest […]
Old Mutual Wealth is expecting to list on the London Stock Exchange as Quilter on 25 June, according to an investor prospectus, as the chief executive of parent company Old Mutual has resigned. Bruce Hemphill, who has been Old Mutual group chief executive since November 2015, resigned from the boards of Old Mutual Group and […]
The FCA has warned investors that copycat scammers are claiming to represent the custodian of a failed structured product provider to cheat people out money. Reyker Securities took on custody and administration responsibilities after Merchant Capital, the structured products arm of Merchant House Group, went into administration in January 2013, leaving £400m in structured product plans in […]
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