14 MARCH 1998, page 28

Addendum

MY EYE is caught by a blue poster with a simple message in white lettering: Go OUT AND MULTIPLY. I reflect that if this is addressed to me personally, it is out of place. Now,......

Gross Margins

RETAIL BANKING is the business that everyone wants to be in. Lloyds, which has concentrated on it, can earn 40 per cent on its shareholders' funds and has become the world's......

In Siegmund's Shadow

WHEN Peter Spira left the bank that Sieg- mund Warburg built, a junior wrote to him: `I will miss you, because I have always regarded you as the outstanding example of how to be......

Backing Losers

TUESDAY of next week is a day to look forward to (writes my racing correspon- dent, Captain Threadneedle). It is always a thrilling occasion and at the end of it we might even......

City And Suburban

Think of your bank as a mother-in-law why pop in if you can ring up? CHRISTOPHER FILDES M y contribution to modem banking is the Mother-in-Law Theory. This says that some......