JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Exceptional investment managers can be counted on the fingers of one hand By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 20 March 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 20 March 2021 There are few investment managers whose reputations stand the test of time. Most fall gently by the wayside while a … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: Inflation never goes away – it just sits there, lurking and growling in the background until it has a chance to burst out again By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 13 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 13 March 2021 Inflation never goes away. It just sits there, lurking … Read more
We don’t associate government initiatives on the City with speed, as anyone who has followed the audit reform saga would testify. So it is terrific to see Deliveroo unveil its intention to float in London just hours after Rishi Sunak’s budget. The report by Lord Hill on bringing tech-based initial public offerings to the London … Read more
Serco is not among Britain’s best-loved companies, in spite of the mammoth effort by Rupert Soames to restore its standing. The outsourcer’s reputation was badly scorched in 2019 when it paid £23million to the Serious Fraud Office as part settlement over cheating on its electronic tagging contracts. For all its faults, though, it does not … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Chancellor Rishi Sunak has a chance to put some oomph behind coronavirus recovery: he should go for it By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:53 GMT, 12 February 2021 | Updated: 21:53 GMT, 12 February 2021 The major advanced economies have each gone about combating fallout from the pandemic in different … Read more
Andrew Bailey is not easily ruffled. The Bank of England governor has been in the furnace of enough crises to know that the best response is to keep calm and carry on. During his appearance before the Treasury Select Committee to answer questions on Dame Elizabeth Gloster’s damming report on the Financial Conduct Authority’s faulty … Read more
MATT HANCOCK: Taking Covid tests at work can pave way to a brighter year for everyone By Matt Hancock For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 6 February 2021 | Updated: 22:16 GMT, 6 February 2021 There are lots of reasons to feel optimistic about the year ahead, especially now that one in five … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: As the UK emerges from the coronavirus nightmare, there is a golden chance to embrace new horizons Britain cannot escape its close geography, trade and financial relations with the EU They are going to be as critical as ever for prosperity when we come out of lockdown The value of being outside the … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: With the swift roll-out of the vaccines and extensive testing, the UK is well positioned to escape its present straitjacket By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 30 January 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 30 January 2021 We have to get everyone back to work. This is not simply an … Read more
You couldn’t be more European than Astrazeneca. Pascal Soriot, the chief executive, is French, Leif Johansson, the chairman, is Swedish, Marc Dunoyer, the finance director, is also French while its management team and top scientists include people from Spain, Italy, Holland and Britain, to name just a few countries. Its corporate HQ and global research … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: BT fails the test of care… so it’s no surprise that investors are regarding it with disdain By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:57 GMT, 26 January 2021 | Updated: 23:24 GMT, 26 January 2021 BT shares have staged a minor recovery since their nadir last August when they briefly fell … Read more
There is so much we do not know about the long-term economic impact of the pandemic. But one common theme for Britain, and for newly-installed President Joe Biden and his team in the US, is that the tolerance of fiscal promiscuity and monetary looseness has changed dramatically. As the Biden team pushes hard for his … Read more
Boohoo, to its credit, has been trying to clean up its supply chain and governance in response to the blistering report from Alison Levitt QC. So it is acutely disappointing that on the same day as its new high-powered monitor, Brian Leveson, was delivering his debut ethics report last week, Boohoo bosses were in Dubai … Read more