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May the force's not with her

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
What UK Prime Minister Theresa May expected as a landslide win at the snap 8 June general elections turned out to be a slide at the polls for the Conservatives instead. The British prime minister intended to secure her Brexit mandate when she announced ...

Two-year road to Brexit begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... It's official. It's signed, sealed and delivered. Making good on the promise she made in October last year, UK prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union formally setting in motion the two-year time limit for negotiations ...

No deal is better than bad deal on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
... seek to hold on to bits of membership as we leave." "No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union." UK Prime Minister Theresa May's speech before EU ambassadors in London last night ended months of speculation over whether Brexit would be hard ...

PIMCO appoints world leaders to advisory board

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... The board will be chaired by former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The other board members are former UK Prime Minister and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, and former European Central Bank president and chairman of the European ...

UK govt tempts super funds with real estate projects

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... role as chairman of the UK Trade & Investment Regeneration Investment Organisation (RIO), which was launched by UK Prime Minister David Cameron in 2013 to find investment and create jobs and economic growth for the UK, he is charged with showcasing a ...

Grexin Brixit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... has that of a Grexit. Many are now convinced it's Grexin. Yes folks, it's been pretty smooth sailing until... UK Prime Minister David Cameron raises the spectre of a Brixit. Speaking at the London headquarters of Bloomberg, Cameron announced his plan ...

Fidelity backs move to empower shareholders

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
Asset management giant Fidelity Worldwide Investment has come out in favour of UK Prime Minister David Cameron's calls for more transparency on executive pay, bonuses and severance packages. Speaking to the BBC earlier this week, Cameron said there ...

Some hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... then what? At this point, I'm not ashamed to admit that I haven't got a clue. But I tend to agree with former UK prime minister and former finance minister Gordon Brown that, "a far larger rescue fund -- two, perhaps three trillion euros -- is needed ...

Global private equity firms invest in OzForex

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... presidents, George Bush Snr. and George W. Bush, have previously served as advisors to Carlyle, while former UK Prime Minister John Major and Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra have also been involved with the company.

GFC Problem solved

... institutions and credit-raters and limits to executive renumeration, among others. In highlighting their achievement, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared that, 'This is the day the world came together to fight back against the global recession, not ...