A third big investor weighs in to the battle for the future of troubled recruitment group Healthcare Locums after last week's revelations that a hedge fund is planning a deal that would massively dilute the holdings of other shareholders... more
A shareholder battle erupts over control of Healthcare Locums, the nursing recruitment company which spectacularly came to grief earlier this year after the discovery of accounting irregularities... more
Robert Halfon, the Tory MP for Harlow, has been taking no prisoners in his attempts to expose the extraordinary power of the Institute For Fiscal Studies in Whitehall circles... more
Martin Hughes, the high-profile hedge-fund manager and majority owner of Toscafund Asset Management, took a massive pay cut last year but still collected a cool £15 million... more
Some fund managers believe the banks have started to run ahead of events following their recent strong rally. But Morgan Stanley reckons there may still be something to go for... ... more
Investment: Hopes for a takeover of stricken New Star receded as potential bidder Aberdeen Asset Management bought Credit Suisse's UK asset management division for £250 million... more
Tongues are wagging in Australia about the resignation of Brendan Hopkins from the board of Sir Anthony O’Reilly’s Independent & News Media, just days after he signed a three-year extension to his contract as chief executive of the Independent’s APN News & Media subsidiary Down Under... more
Stock-market superbear Albert Edwards has had a change of heart. The global market strategist with Société Générale reckons the recent plunge in share prices has brought valuations to levels that even trenchant bears such as he might decide makes them look cheap... more
It's been a few days of differing fortunes for those investors who took up shares in the massive placings launched last week by Barclays and its rival Lloyds TSB... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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