City And Suburban
In Lloyd's secret garden of earthly delights, the odds are on the Nubian CHRISTOPHER FILDES T o join Lloyd's of London, it has long seemed to me, is to be the traveller in the......
Where The Money Goes
FOR an ingenious football investment I am indebted to Soccer Analyst, whose first issue draws my attention to the Fondo Cerrado Boca Juniors. This new Argentine fund will,......
The Merry Widows
SIGNS and portents in Cornhill. At num- ber 39, the poor old Union Discount Com- pany is boarded up. The surviving directors must be taking my advice and turning it into the......
For Fans, For Fun
BEING the Member of Parliament for Stockport had its downside, as my grandfa- ther learned when he had to buy shares in Stockport County Football Club. We must still have these......
After Scotarn
STUDENTS of the Conservative party know that an ousting is normally a two-man job. You need a kingmaker and a king. Ousting the board of a life office seems to work that way......
Better Luck Next Time
INTEREST rates can go up as well as down, but the tactful time to put them up is after an election, not before it. At the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan has now acted on......