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Finding your niche
1 Months ago at 7:00 by Steve Billingham
Most mature professional services businesses have grown to where they are today by “catching and killing”. In other words, working with as many different people as possible resulting in the all ...
BoJ decision time tonight; QE or not QE?
1 Months ago at 9:47 by Matt Williams
Michael Sarris became Cyprus's finance minister on 28 February. He lasted a little under five weeks in the post, just long enough to oversee the seizure of bank deposits, the imposition of capital and ...
What comes next after mobile?
1 Months ago at 9:43 by Graham Jones
Today is the 40th birthday of the mobile phone; happy birthday mobile. The first mobile telephone call was made on 3rd April 1973 by Martin Cooper an employee of Motorola in New York. In those days, ...
Chimp or chump? Fund Managers: Really, really bad at what they do
1 Months ago at 7:00 by Henry Tapper
For some years, First Actuarial have been running a “Monkey League” which pits the wits of 150 top brains against 1000 monkeys; the task, to pick two teams to do well and two to do badly in each ...
Institutions of capitalism
1 Months ago at 9:05 by Diane Coyle, OBE
In the past few days I’ve been pondering ‘institutions’ in the sense in which economists mean them – the entire range of non-market, social norm based arrangements for the collective ...
Manufacturing PMIs expect to disappoint
1 Months ago at 8:16 by Matt Williams
Yesterday's newspapers did not really excel themselves with their April Fool stories. The Daily Express told readers they could book a suite at Buckingham Palace for £10k a night. The Mirror showed ...
British investors halt rush to stocks
1 Months ago at 8:06 by John Redwood
I wish all our readers a good break for Easter. The hectic times continue in Europe. The Cyprus banks have reopened to some extent this week after a long delay. Individuals can only withdraw EUR300 a ...
Nothing to queue for at Cypriot banks
2 Months ago at 7:00 by Matt Williams
Having been closed for nearly two weeks the banks in Cyprus will open again today. That is to say they will roll up their shutters, unlock their doors and allow customers to walk in from the street ...
Perception is not reality in world of social media
2 Months ago at 7:00 by Graham Jones
Magicians are great manipulators of your mind. They make you think something has vanished, when it is still right there in front of our very eyes. Or they cause you to gasp as they seemingly convert a ...
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rein4ce Managing Director and founder Mairi Mallon has been writing about the re/insurance industry ...
Rebecca Bendle was born and bred in Cornwall, studying at Richard Lander School and Truro College. ...
Simon Beanis managing director of the Recruitment Connection and has been recruiting since 1985. He ...
Graeme is the Practice Development Manager at Kingston Smith, a top 20 firm of accountants. He ...
I'm a Business Development Manager at foreign exchange provider Moneycorp. I have over five ...
