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Reasons to be Cheerful – May 2013

‘If you set out to be liked you would be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime and you would achieve nothing.’ Baroness Margaret Thatcher 13/10/1925 – 08/04/2013 Politicians have dominated the headlines over the last few weeks as the great and the not so good gave Maggie an appropriate farewell. A handful of her

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Cyprus and Us – April 2013

‘The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation’ – Vladimir Lenin 1870-1924 Lenin would afford himself a wry smile as the Siberian chill wind blew for the whole of March and Europe plunged back into chaos with the aptly named. Panicos Demetriades (Governor of the Bank

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Year of the Snake – March 2013

February, the start of the Chinese year of the ‘snake’, saw the end of the AAA rating for the UK, a papal resignation for the first time in 600 years and Tesco ‘beef’ burgers and Findus ‘lasagne’ removed from household shopping lists. The French will be having a quiet chuckle…

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The Day the Music Died – February 2013

On this day in 1959 rock stars Buddy Holly, J.P. Richardson and Ritchie Valens were killed in a plane crash. Richardson had persuaded a fellow band member to give up his seat and Ritchie Valens aged just 17 had won the last remaining seat on the toss of a coin. ‘That’ll be the day’ had just reached number one in USA…

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In The Press: Investors Pick Over Distressed Property

The surge of soured property loans in Europe also is creating more business for firms like Alliance Property Asset Management. The firm was appointed in late 2011 to manage City Park, an office property in Glasgow, by Hatfield Philips International Ltd., which was overseeing the debt on the 292,000 square-foot complex on behalf of a syndicate of three banks…

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Do the right thing – January 2013

Teddy, the youngest ever USA President and the leader of the ‘Progressive’ movement, would have been turning in his 94 year old grave over the New Year as he listened to the wrangling of the Senate and then the House of Representatives as they tried to make a decision on averting (or rather delaying) the imminent fall over the ‘fiscal cliff’…

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Further Expansion at APAM Limited

APAM Limited has made two, key appointments in its Manchester and London offices, as the firm continues to increase its portfolio of assets throughout the UK. John Slater joins the Manchester team as financial director and Chris Williams joins London as investment asset manager. APAM is a specialist UK property investment asset management firm, which

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You miss 100% of the shots you never take – December 2012

I thought it appropriate to welcome our new Bank of England Governor with a quote from another famous Canadian. Canada, the land of the Loonie! (Canadian $1 coin) has given the world famous musicians; Michael Bublé, Oscar Peterson, Bryan Adams and Celine Dion, it also gave us the telephone through Alexander Graham Bell…

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Election Special – November 2013

After a traumatic and then dramatic few weeks, a nation has put their hope and trust behind Obama whilst Hurricane Sandy blew hard leaving a path of destruction across the East Coast. Americans will now be hoping for a return to economic stability and for the rejuvenated Obama to begin to fulfil the hope filled promises of 4 years ago…

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