Political promises should be taken with a pinch of salt. Investors can make expensive mistakes if they change their plans around a pie-in-the-sky manifesto pledge. Take, for example, Labour’s promise to privatise a handful of companies. Many DIY investors took these seriously and sold out, avoiding the risk of any government meddling. On …

Influential City investors put pressure on 15 major companies, including Royal Mail and Just Eat, to improve workers’ pay By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:58, 28 November 2019 | Updated: 22:02, 28 November 2019 Influential City investors have put pressure on 15 major companies, including Royal Mail …

Home Conferences Corporate Counsel & Compliance Exchange 2020 Corporate Counsel & Compliance Exchange 1-2nd April 2020 |Luton Hoo, UK The Corporate Counsel and Compliance Exchange will bring together 80 of the leading General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officers to discover new ideas and make new connections across a productive two day event. Immerse yourself in interactive group …

What many Catholics really miss in the current election is something like the Labour Party as it once was: caring about working people, the unemployed, the homeless and the poor, but also supportive of the family, the community and pro-life. Such a type of politician is the now retired Seamus …

Legal & General Investment Management has recently become a member of an investor group that today wrote to 15 of the largest UK-listed companies about paying their staff a fair wage. Other investors backing the letter include BMO Global Asset Management, Candriam Investors Group, NEST, and Strathclyde Pension Fund. The …

Sweet Harmony Warehouse / Art Edit is the first exhibition of art and photography to take place in a venue widely considered to be the new home of UK rave. It takes visitors from the days of Acid House and The Hacienda, right through to the movements and collectives that are …

A BITTER dispute between postal workers and the Royal Mail will not be resolved “without a real threat of industrial action,” the court of appeal has … Source link

FILE PHOTO: A Royal Mail postal worker stands in the yard of a sorting office in Altrincham, Britain October 12, 2017. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo (Reuters) – Britain’s Royal Mail (RMG.L) on Thursday confirmed that its biggest union lost an appeal to overturn a High Court injunction to stop a strike …

Alexi Lubomirski was chosen by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to snap their official engagement and wedding photos which were distributed around the world and made into postage stamps by the Royal Mail. This month marks two years since the Queen’s grandson formally introduced his then-girlfriend to the world …

News Julia Irvine 28 Nov 2019 03:16pm A group of 21 large institutional investors has written to 15 FTSE 350 company chief executives setting out the business case for paying the real living wage The investors – who include Legal & General Investment Management, …