Lisa Buckingham on the plight of independent shops in the current economic climate.
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‘What the big multiples might be able to swallow with a bit of bleating is murderous to a family-owned business with only one or two outlets’
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Midas: Galliford Try & Goldplat
Monday, January 23rd, 2012FInancial Mail’s Investments Editor Joanne Hart takes a look at construction group Galliford Try and gives a Midas Update on gold firm Goldplat.
‘These fat cat attacks aren’t always right’
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012Lisa Buckingham says that while you might accept that changing the face of our boardrooms and the nature of share ownership are big issues for society, the message from both parties in Government and the Opposition is muddled – in some places ignorant, in others plain wrong.
Simon Watkins: Low-cost ECB loans must be passed on into real economy
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012It was a good week for Royal Bank of Scotland on the stock market, despite former chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin facing calls to lose his knighthood and the current boss, Stephen Hester, his bonus.
Dan Atkinson: Finances on track for high-speed crash
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012Another day, another claim that a grave social ill is costing the economy billions of pounds. In this case it was obesity and the alarming sum involved was allegedly north of £21 billion a year, but it could just as easily have been binge drinking, absenteeism, presenteeism, non-working mothers, working mothers, smoking, poor literacy and numeracy, and any permutations thereof.
Balancing the Bump: Parenting disabled children and the workplace
Thursday, January 19th, 2012Exclusively for FMWF, employment law specialist Annabel Kaye and Allie Stewart, MD of The Life-Changing Company – members of 1230 The Women’s Company – tackle the complex issues involved in being a working parent with disabled children.
Employment law: Forced retirement
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012The Supreme Court has just started a hearing which is expected to provide guidance about how and when it might still be permissible for employers to force staff to retire – even though it is supposed to be illegal to do so. Peta Fluendy explains.
Dan Atkinson: A welcome cold turkey for house prices
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012Thirty or more years have passed since the heyday of the Circle of Gold, a chain letter that took Britain by storm in the recession-hit early Eighties.
