What Money Can Buy
THE OFT calls for a new kind of personal pension — 'the best that money can buy'. Such a thing has already been invented, and is called a money-purchase pension scheme.......
City And Suburban
Three new blades, two new handles it's all change in the palace that was ICI's CHRISTOPHER FILDES I have been told that the authentic crick- et bat once used by W.G. Grace is......
Leavers Weepers
I AM prompted to wonder how many peo- ple who joined ICI at the beginning of their working lives are now retiring on full pen- sion. ICI is a good provider and they must have......
Sorry, Wrong Numbers
BRITISH Telecom is more surprised than I am. Harassed by regulators and menaced by chancellors, it was in a hurry to part with its money before the rats got at it. So last year......
Trojan Horses
AS FOR British finance, one line from the announcement tells the story: 'ICI is being advised by Goldman Sachs'. In the days, not far distant, when S.G. Warburg advised more......
Sweet Thames, Run Softly
I LIKE the way that Thames Water keeps faith with its shareholders. Gordon Brown may dip into its profits, John Prescott twid- dles its taps and some professional con- sumers......
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