While celeb spotting over lunch in a Soho restaurant with an MM reporter, Bristol & West PR Debbie Stavely got very excited when she recognised a well-known media man.
When B&W head of marketing Dom Toller pointed to a small, slightly balding man leaving the restaurant with an exclamation of: “Oh, look who it is…,” Stavely cried: “It's thingy O'Donnell from Financial Adviser.”
Toller shattered Stavely's illusions of having spotted a famous editor by telling her it was Ian Hislop of Private Eye and Have I Got News For You. The Diary wonders whether Hislop has been earning extra cash editing a downmarket trade magazine.
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Beaufort Investments appoints new CIO
Discretionary fund manager Beaufort Investment has promoted internally to fill the position of chief investment officer and has also appointed a new funds research executive. Beaufort Investment is part of the vertically integrated Beaufort Financial group. Head of portfolio construction Shane Balkham has been appointed as CIO and investment analyst Emma Clarke has been named […]
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