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FED’S $3 TRILLION
IN EMERGENCY AID
Ben Bernanke: Banks and firms
used our temporary liquidity facili-
ties 21,000 times during the crisis
FINANCIAL SERVICES
▲
BY KATIE HOPE
EUROPEAN banks were some of the
biggest beneficiaries of the Federal
Reserve’s $3.3 trillion emergency loan
programmes during the darkest days
of the financial crisis when the US cen-
tral bank desperately tried to keep the
global system functioning.
The biggest release of data on crisis
lending ever revealed by a central bank
shows the breadth of the Fed’s support
as lender of last resort with 21,000
transactions to financial firms, other
central banks and companies between
the beginning of December 2007 to the
end of July this year unveiled.
Among the transactions, which
cover all but one of the Fed’s emer-
gency lending programmes including
direct liquidity injections and invest-
ments in key credit markets, Barclays
Capital emerged as one of the biggest
cumulative borrowers from the
Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF)
providing access to overnight loans.
The firm took 50 overnight loans of as
much as $7.5bn. After it took over
Lehman on 17 September 2008, it bor-
rowed $47.9bn – the highest individual
loan in the life of the PDCF. Barclays
yesterday said that all the loans were
repaid last year. Meanwhile, RBS had
to borrow £36.6bn from the Term
Auction Facility (TAF) Programme pro-
viding access to short-term one and
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three-month funding emphasising the
squeeze in dollar liquidity after the col-
lapse of Lehman.
European banks also featured as five
of the ten top users of the Fed’s
Commercial Paper Funding Facility
(CPFF), which bought high-quality
three-month commercial paper from
companies that had difficulty selling it
with Swiss banking giant UBS tapping
it for $37bn in October 2008. Belgium’s
Dexia turned to the CPFF for $10.9bn in
2008 and Germany’s Commerzbank
for $11.6bn.
Senator Bernie Saunders, who
pushed through the amendment to
the Dodd-Frank law forcing the disclo-
sure, said yesterday the “huge sum”
that went out to foreign private banks
and corporations was the “most sur-
prising” element of the published data
and demanded “an extensive look.”
The data also revealed how Wall
Street titans Goldman Sachs and
Morgan Stanley were forced to turn to
the Fed for aid – Goldman borrowed
directly from the Fed 84 times when its
overnight loans peaked at $18bn, while
Morgan Stanley tapped it 212 times
borrowing nearly $60bn.
Companies such as GE also used the
CPFF programme tapping the Fed for
more than $12bn in total. And the
Fed’s reach also extended to foreign
central banks – with the European
Central Bank using the Fed’s dollar
liquidity swap 271 times in total.
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 2 News
UK recovery confounds City experts
EDITOR’S LETTER
ALLISTER HEATH
FAR from slowing down, Britain’s
recovery is intensifying. Yesterday’s
economic data was remarkably good,
with the purchasing managers’ index
(PMI) suggesting that manufacturing
is now growing at its fastest rate since
1994. Manufacturing accounts for
under nine per cent of UK employ-
ment but remains vital to exports,
despite the growth in recent years of
financial and business services.
The survey once again shocked
many “experts” – the consensus was
for a drop in the PMI survey yet the
actual figure shot up from 54.9 to 58.
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WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING
AUSTRALIA’S GROWTH RATE STALLS
IN THIRD QUARTER
Australia’s economic growth rate
slowed markedly in the third quarter
to its weakest level in two years as
higher interest rates cut into housing
investment and the rise in the
Australian dollar hit exports. The 0.2
per cent rise in gross domestic prod-
uct compared with the quarter ended
June was less than half market fore-
casts. It helped drag the yearly eco-
nomic growth rate down from 3.3 to
2.7 per cent.
JAPAN’S ORIX JOINS PUSH TO TAP
VIETNAM
Orix, the Japanese financial services
group, has taken a 25 per cent stake
in Indochina Capital, one of
Vietnam’s biggest foreign-run invest-
ment firms, the latest in a spate of
investments in Vietnam by Japanese
companies looking for growth.
The details suggest manufacturing
output is surging at a quarterly rate of
1.2 per cent, the best performance in
ages. Economists have been guilty of
excessive pessimism since the recov-
ery began – just as they were guilty of
excessive optimism in the dying days
of the bubble.
Even Mervyn King misjudged the
rate at which the economy would
recover in 2010. The US embassy cable
dated 17 February released by
WikiLeaks and which created a fuss
yesterday as a result of King’s criticism
of David Cameron and George
Osborne’s inexperience also con-
tained an intriguing passage on the
jobs situation. The private sector has
created well over 300,000 extra jobs
this year, the majority of which were
part-time but a large number full-
time, yet this was what the US was
briefed: “Businesses will cut jobs faster
this year and eliminate many part-
time positions, as employers realise
that the economic recovery will be a
long, drawn-out process, said King.”
Optimism for
US recovery
US ECONOMY
▲
BY JULIAN HARRIS
STEADY growth is being observed in
the US, the central bank reported last
night.
In its latest beige book, the Federal
Reserve said the economy “continued
to improve, on balance” from
early/mid-October to mid-November.
Manufacturing activity continued
to grow in “almost all” districts,
reflecting optimistic results from yes-
terday’s ISM manufacturing index.
The beige book found positive
signs for employment. “Hiring activi-
ty showed some improvement across
most Districts,” it said.
And expectations for the holiday
season are high, “with several dis-
tricts expecting higher sales when
compared to year-ago levels.”
Yet there was also bad news for
FRANKLIN TEMPLETON STARTS
ROMANIA LEGAL ACTION
Franklin Templeton, the fund manag-
er, is taking legal action against the
Romanian government after Romgaz,
the state-controlled natural gas pro-
ducer, made a 400m lei ($122m) dona-
tion to help reduce the country’s
budget deficit. Templeton says the
move could damage investor confi-
dence and harm Romania’s ability to
attract foreign investment and priva-
tise state assets.
GENDER PAY AUDIT PLANS SCRAPPED
The government is to ditch plans to
force companies to disclose how
much they pay women and men in a
move likely to be applauded by big
business but spark consternation
among equality campaigners.Theresa
May, home secretary, will announce
today that she will ask companies to
narrow the pay gap through volun-
tary efforts rather than by enacting
legislation.
The truth, of course, was much more
upbeat; King was also wrong. The
“anemic” nature of global growth, has
in fact been extremely strong thanks
to emerging markets.
What about next year? The Office
for Budget Responsibility’s growth
forecast of 2.1 per cent is eminently
plausible. But it is worth highlighting
that its official forecast that growth
will average 2.4 per cent per year dur-
ing 2010-14 is much lower than the 3.4
per cent achieved over 1994-98, accord-
ing to figures from Henderson,
despite fiscal retrenchment on a simi-
lar scale. In theory at least, the UK
could grow much faster than anybody
is expecting. That concerns about
credit supply are starting to wane is
another plus – many wrongly predict-
ed that weak credit would drag down
the previous recovery in the 1990s, fol-
lowing a hit to banks’ capital.
Company finances are in better
shape. Households have been insulat-
ed by low interest rates, resulting in
fewer arrears and repossessions. The
consumer spending. “Households
remain price sensitive and focused on
buying necessities,” the Fed revealed.
And gloom still lurks over the US
housing market, which “remains
depressed,” with signs in some areas
of “further weakening during the
past six weeks.”
Overall, however, the report was
cautiously optimistic. “Anecdotal
reports of the districts suggest that
activity, on balance, has accelerated
modestly,” said Michael Gapen of
Barclays Capital Research.
MANUFACTURING BOUNCES BACK: P14
Ben Bernanke’s Federal
Reserve offered some
hope for the US
recovery in its beige
book for November.
FORTNUMS WILL FOLLOW THE MONEY
TO THE MIDDLE EAST
Fortnum & Mason plans to open a
store overseas for the first time in 80
years after returning to profit follow-
ing six years of losses. The Piccadilly
supermarket for the super-rich, made
a £100,000 profit in the year to June,
its first since 2004, according to
results filed this week. This compares
with a £5.7m loss last year, when it
shed 10 per cent of its staff as the
recession cut into sales.
BANKS TOLD TO CLEAN UP THEIR ACT
OVER PPI COMPLAINTS
Financial regulators have stoked a
row with banks over payment protec-
tion insurance amid concerns over
processing complaints. The Financial
Services Consumer Panel said banks
were failing to process thousands of
complaints from customers who
claim they were mis-sold the policies.
opportunities for exporters and inter-
national firms are greater than ever.
The trouble is that the private sec-
tor is in other ways in a weaker posi-
tion than it was in the early 1990s,
largely because there is now much
more regulation and higher taxes.
London is less competitive; institu-
tions are relocating elsewhere.
Manufacturing is bouncing back but
only for cyclical reasons; competition
is continuing to intensify as emerging
economies become better at produc-
ing valued-added goods and services.
The real domestic risk, however, is
that interest servicing costs will surge
much faster than anybody expects.
Each percentage point rise in interest
rates and inflation will raise debt
interest spending in 2015-16 by
£10.7bn, or 0.6 per cent of GDP. Who
could cope with mortgages at seven or
eight per cent in three years’ time?
Strong growth means higher interest
rates – and a return to reality guaran-
tees trouble ahead.
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11,200
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10,400
13 Sep 1 Oct
US could add to EU fund
EU ECONOMY
▲
BY MATTHEW WEST
US stocks leapt yesterday on news
that America could be ready to sup-
port the extension of the European
Financial Stability fund by providing
extra money to the International
Monetary Fund (IMF)
The Dow Jones Industrial Average
surged 249 points, or 2.27 per cent, to
close at 11,255, while the Standard &
Poor’s 500-stock index gained 25
points to 1,206, and the Nasdaq
Composite added 55 points, or 2.05
OBAMA COMMISSION SAYS US DEBT IS
GREATEST THREAT TO SECURITY
America's growing budget deficit is
the greatest threat to the country's
prosperity and security, President
Obama's Debt Commission warned, as
it recommended sweeping cuts in gov-
ernment spending and an overhaul of
the tax system. The National
Commission on Fiscal Responsibility
and Reform laid out a plan to cut the
US budget deficit to 2.3 per cent of
GDP by 2015 from 9 per cent this year.
THOMAS COOK BLASTS GATWICK
AIRPORT OWNERS
Thomas Cook's chief executive has
told the owners of Gatwick Airport to
“get their act together” after they
closed the site because of the snow.
"It's embarrassing," Manny Fontenla-
Novoa said. “It's winter, we've got
snow. Airports should be investing in
their property and people.”
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per cent, to 2,549. A US official con-
firmed there had been talks with the
European Commission about possibly
enlarging the €750bn (£630bn) EU
IMF stability fund adding that
although it was a decision for Europe
the US would support using the IMF
in such circumstances. The remarks
came before a visit to Europe this
week by a US Treasury envoy who is
expected to visit Berlin, Madrid and
Paris to hold talks about the debt cri-
sis. The IMF has committed €250bn
to the fund already.
EUROZONE:P4-P5, MARKETS: P21
GLAXO ENDS STUDY OF RED-WINE
DRUG
GlaxoSmithKline formally terminat-
ed a clinical trial of an experimental
drug designed to harness the poten-
tial health benefits of red wine, say-
ing it had minimal efficacy in cancer
patients and could potentially exacer-
bate kidney complications. The drug
maker reiterated it isn't planning any
further testing of the drug.
MYSTERY BUYER HOLDS BULK OF
COPPER
A mystery buyer is apparently hold-
ing more than half of the copper
stocks at the London Metal
Exchange's warehouses, the latest rev-
elation of how a single trader can roil
an entire commodities market. That
trader, whom the exchange hasn't
identified, owns between 50 per cent
and 80 per cent of the 355,750 metric
tons held in LME-listed warehouses
CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010
BarCap to cut
hundreds of
London jobs
▲
BANKING
BY JULIET SAMUEL
BARCLAYS Capital has confirmed
plans to shed hundreds of jobs in its
UK office even as the firm continues
to hire in growth hotspots in Asia.
Both front and back office jobs are
set to go as the firm cuts down on
costs in line with a fall in revenues
this year.
BarCap – the investment banking
division run by incoming Barclays
chief executive Bob Diamond – said
yesterday that it had begun a 90-day
consultation period that will allow it
to reduce its headcount, a process
only required if a company plans to
cut more than 100 workers.
The firm has had a difficult year,
with revenues dropping off in a slow
market for investment banks. Its
income was down 14 per cent in the
third quarter to £2.8bn, having
already fallen 15 per cent during the
previous quarter.
However, the UK office is the only
one currently slated for job cuts
globally. The firm had already cut
300 jobs in August but overall added
2,000 workers in the first half of
2010 to fill places in its new equities
advisory division.
Hiring is expected to continue as
normal “across those parts of busi-
ness that are growing”, the firm said
in a statement. Growing areas
include fixed income, commodities
and equities and advisories, but
headcount is likely to expand at a
slower pace than during 2010.
Tim Hedger, deputy managing
director of City recruiting firm
Marks Sattin, said that although
finance jobs are overall being added
in London, the Asian job market is
much more vibrant. “The UK is fail-
ing to keep pace with global rival,
Singapore,” said Hedger, pointing to
the market for skilled accountants.
“In Singapore [it] is burning white-
hot: the average salary rise has hit 20
per cent this year, although we have
seen rises of 50 per cent offered to
tempt departing accountants to stay
at the firm,” he added.
Commuters struggle into work yesterday
It’s snow joke as more
travel chaos is predicted
WEATHER
▲
BY MATTHEW WEST
SNOW caused chaos around the UK
yesterday as road, rail and air services
were disrupted. Weather forecasters
said temperatures were set to freeze
overnight once again marking one of
the coldest starts to December in
more than 20 years.
Gatwick Airport, which was closed
today because of the cold snap, said it
would be at least 10am today before
Picture: PA
the airport reopened leading to sig-
nificant disruption, delays and can-
cellations. Meanwhile Southeastern
trains, which runs services out of
London Victoria and Charing Cross
said it was operating an emergency
timetable today and that services will
finish early.
Also, half of Eurostar services
between London and Brussels today
have been cancelled, as have seven
out of 17 services each way between
London and Paris.
News 3
Number 10 is
relaxed over
King doubts
▲
POLITICS
BY DAVID CROW
DOWNING Street yesterday insisted
the Prime Minister was perfectly
relaxed about disparaging comments
made by Mervyn King.
Before the election, King told the
US ambassador that David Cameron
and George Osborne were inexperi-
enced and relied too heavily on a
small number of advisers, according
to cables released by the WikiLeaks
foundation.
Cameron and Osborne, then leader
of the opposition and shadow chancel-
lor, also had a tendency to think about
economic issues in terms of party
political point scoring, King said.
Number 10 yesterday said Cameron
was relaxed about the comments, a
sentiment echoed by Osborne’s advis-
ers at the Treasury.
And the Prime Minister’s official
spokesman refused to condemn the
Bank of England governor’s com-
ments. Asked if King was doing a good
job, the spokesman replied “yeah”.
However, shadow defence secretary
Jim Murphy voiced concern, saying he
“has to take great care” with his opin-
ions.
Danny Blanchflower, a former
member of the Monetary Policy
Committee and persistent critic of the
governor yesterday called for King to
resign.
 4 Eurozone Debt Crisis CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010

First Eurozone
bonds go on ANALYSIS l Euro - dollar
USD/
EUR
1330

sale next year

1320

1310

1300

25 Nov 29 Nov 1 Dec

Jean-Claude Trichet said this week
▲

WORLD ECONOMY
that markets should not “underesti- ANALYSIS l 10 year government bond
BY JULIET SAMUEL Basis yields over German bunds
mate the determination of govern-
points
THE Eurozone is to issue its first ever ments” to save the euro and EU Greece
region-wide bonds in January 2011, officials have been anxious to demon- Spain
800 Ireland
said Klaus Regling, head of the strate that they are prepared to con- Portugal
European Financial Stability Fund sider radical measures to shore up the 600
(EFSF), yesterday. single currency. The comments by the
Klaus said that the €440bn (£370bn) EFSF’s Klaus were quickly followed by 400
bailout fund, which was set up in May indications by the US government
after the Greek rescue, would sell that it would willingly contribute to 200
€5bn-€8bn’s worth of debt with an an expanded EFSF via the Source: Thomson/Reuters
average maturity of 7.5 years. “If every- International Monetary Fund. “It is up
2009 Jan 2010 Apr Jul Oct
thing goes to plan they will make a to the Europeans. We will certainly
profit,” he said, speaking during a support using the IMF in these cir- ANALYSIS l 2011 share of Eurozone
visit to Singapore. The fund currently cumstances,” an unnamed US official gross sovereign debt
has a triple-A rating. said. The euro saw its first rally since Portugal (1.7%)
The bond issue heralds an unprece- the Irish bailout after his remarks, Ireland (1.8%)
Greece (4%)
dented move towards a single debt moving over $1.31 versus the dollar. Spain 9%
market for the Eurozone at a time
when many are discussing the possi- FAST FACTS | EFSF
bility of a euro break-up. 23% 61%
Peripheral Eurozone government ● The European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) Italy *Other
bond yields are at record highs, but is a sovereign bailout fund created in May using Europe
the EU is clearly hoping that the cre- funds from Eurozone members. *Germany, France,
ation of a single euro bond will send a Netherlands, Belguim, Austria,
● It will issue €5bn-€8bn’s worth of bonds Finland, Luxembourg Source: Thomson Reuters,
strong signal to punitive markets. early next year, with average 7.5 years maturity.
OECD Economic Outlook
European Central Bank President
CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010
ECB purchase Spain to sell off
not enough assets to pay debt
▲
WORLD ECONOMY
BY JULIET SAMUEL
THE European Central Bank (ECB) is
expected to announce a resumption of
its special government bond-purchas-
ing programme today in a desperate
bid to stop the spread of the sovereign
debt crisis in its tracks.
But the markets are likely to be dis-
appointed by the scale of its interven-
tion, with most analysts saying that
the ECB would have to buy gilts on the
scale of the Federal Reserve’s $600bn
(£384bn) quantitative easing pro-
gramme to halt the euro contagion.
Capital Economics’ Jennifer
McKeown said: “Its purchases have
been really small compared to sover-
eign financing needs. To really make a
difference, it would probably need to
purchase about €500bn – seven times
the size of its purchases so far.”
The ECB has reluctantly stepped up
EU plans tougher stress tests
▲
WORLD ECONOMY
BY MARION DAKERS
EUROPEAN Union officials are plan-
ning a new round of stress tests on
banking institutions, in an attempt to
remedy exams over the summer that
failed to predict the current effects of
the euro crisis on the banks.
However, the EU said it might not
CITY VIEWS: SHOULD THE UK HELP TO BAIL OUT
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL? Interviews by Thomas Hamed
RICHARD GRAINGER | TORUS INSURANCE
“Absolutely not. As a nation, we have
enough problems of our own, and need to
sort them out. We stayed out of the
Eurozone to avoid messes like this. That
seems like a good decision now, doesn't
it?”
EMMA FEHRENBACH | RSA INSURANCE
“I think we should consider helping with a
bailout in the current climate, though, we
need to look out for ourselves. We need
stable trade partners.”
CLAIRE THOMAS | BELL & CLEMENTS
“We haven't got the money as it is, so a
bailout would be difficult. I suppose every-
one is in the same boat financially as we
are. Still, I wouldn't expect other
Eurozone members to help us with
our troubles.”
Eurozone Debt Crisis 5
Emergency
ECB rate rises
▲
WORLD ECONOMY
EMERGENCY overnight borrowing
from the European Central Bank
es’ business. It also announced plans (ECB) rose to just under €2.5bn
▲
WORLD ECONOMY
BY MATTHEW WEST to privatise 30 per cent of its state lot- (£2.1bn), figures showed yesterday, as
bond purchases slightly in recent tery. Eurozone debt fears continued to dom-
weeks and on Tuesday, ECB president THE Spanish government said yester- Spain’s biggest airports, Madrid inate the mood in financial markets.
Jean-Claude Trichet suggested that it day it planned to part privatise air- and Barcelona, would be run private- Banks usually refrain from using
might scale up its activities. ports operator AENA, which could be ly under operating concessions, the ECB’s overnight borrowing facili-
Many suspect the ECB has already worth up to €30bn (£25.3bn), as a way Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero told ty because the interest rate is 0.75 per
increased its intervention in second- of reducing its national debt. parliament. cent higher than the one per cent
ary bond markets, for example during The government said it would No decision has yet been made that cash is available on offer at its
yesterday’s auction of Portuguese debt. allow private companies to take about whether the part privatisation main refinancing operation.
Evolution Securities’ Elisabeth Afseth stakes of up to 49 per cent in the will take the form of a financial part- It is typically well above market
said it “wouldn’t be a surprise if they country’s airports and airport servic- ner, or a stock market listing. rates.
had bought paper ahead of the auc-
tion”.
The auction saw strong demand, for
€500m of 12-month debt, but Portugal
was forced to pay an unprecedented
premium for the cash. Yields rose to
5.3 per cent, versus 4.8 per cent just a
fortnight ago.
Most observers view these soaring
sovereign borrowing costs as unsus-
tainable for the Eurozone’s peripheral
members. However, unlike the Fed,
the ECB is only permitted to buy sover-
eign debt in the secondary market.
publish the results of the next batch
of examinations of banking capital.
European economic commissioner
Olli Rehn conceded in Brussels that
the original stress tests were inconsis-
tently applied, and said the new
European Banking Authority that
opens in 2011 will have the power to
conduct more rigorous tests.
 6 News CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010

Chief operating
HSBC spins off officer at News
Asian private Int steps down

equity unit

▲
MEDIA
BY STEVE DINNEEN
NEWS International chief operating
officer Clive Milner has been placed
on gardening leave after a shake-up
led by chief executive Rebekah
Brooks.
▲

BANKING
BY MATTHEW WEST
HSBC’s Asian private equity unit has
been taken over in a management
The biggest of the five private equi-
ty businesses being spun out of the
bank is HSBC Specialist Investments
in the UK, which manages some $4bn
of assets, mostly in infrastructure and
He will formally leave the firm
early next year after more than 30
years. City A.M. understands his role
Alliance Trust boss Katherine Garrett-Cox (l) and Burberry chief Angela Ahrendts Picture: PA became superfluous to requirements
when Brooks reshuffled her executive

Still not enough women

buyout and renamed Headland property funds. team after her arrival last year.
Capital Partners, it emerged yester- Several other banks are looking at News International says his role will
day. spinning off their private equity oper- not be replaced but his responsibilities
The sale is the first of five planned ations. Barclays Private Equity is will be taken on by commercial chief

directors of FTSE firms

management buyouts of HSBC’s pri-
vate equity businesses.
It is the latest to respond to pres-
sure from regulators on banks to spin
off their private equity activities.
HSBC is also in talks about manage-
ment buyouts of its private equity
believed to be in talks about spinning Katie Vanneck, general manager Will
off from Barclays as part of plans to Lewis, chief information officer Paul
raise its next buyout fund, LDC is con- Cheesbrough and Chris Longcroft, all
sidering a break from Lloyds Banking of whom have taken on the roles since
Group and Citigroup has spun off the arrival of Brooks.
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Middle East.
Headland’s management team will
own 80.1 per cent of the firm with
680
HSBC holding the rest.
The bank is keeping hold of its
investments in Headland’s funds. The
firm, which raised a $1.47bn fund in
2008, invests $40m-$150m for control-
ling or minority stakes in companies
based in greater China, South Korea,
south-east Asia and India.
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p 01 Dec
690 BUSINESS groups reacted with disap-
pointment to the news that only 12.5
per cent of FTSE 100 company board
670 directors were women yesterday.
Penny de Valk, chief executive of
660 the Institute of Leadership &
Management, reacted to research
650
from Cranfield University saying gov-
ernment enforced quotas were by no
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explain’ system or the more directive Chief operating
system of quotas,” she said.
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officer Clive Milner
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its packaged goods business through
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instant coffee and other products sold in
grocery stores can grow faster than sales
US watchdog proposes
swap trader regulations
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coffee chain plans to accelerate that
growth by taking a bigger role in that
business, which includes cutting ties with
Kraft, its distributor of Starbucks coffee
to supermarkets for the past 12 years.

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E.ON boss Dr Johannes Teyssen says the proceeds will be used to pay down debt Picture: GETTY
Brewin says
regulation
hits profits
▲
FINANCIAL SERVICES
BY HARRY BANKS
BRITISH financial services group
Brewin Dolphin yesterday said it post-
ed a 25 per cent increase in underly-
ing pre-tax profits during the year to
26 September as it brushed off the
impact of higher regulatory costs.
Brewin Dolphin said profits exclud-
ing redundancy costs, contract renew-
al payments and the amortisation of
client relationships was £40.2m for
the full-year.
After exceptional costs, pre-tax
profits were £31.4m, a 43 per cent
increase from a year earlier.
Brewin Dolphin said the year had
seen a “material rise” in the costs of
regulation as British authorities
shake up selling of financial services
after the financial crisis and that the
company planned to find ways to mit-
igate the cost.
“Your board believes that the
impact of regulation upon the busi-
ness is unlikely to reduce in the fore-
seeable future,” the company said.
The investment management busi-
ness, which accounted for 96 per cent
of group turnover, saw an 18 per cent
rise in revenues while total funds
under management increased 13 per
cent to £23.3bn.
The company proposed a final divi-
dend of 3.55p per share, bringing the
total dividend to 7.1p.
ANALYSIS l Brewin 148.00
p 01 Dec
150
140
130
120
15 Sep 14 Oct 12 Nov
Broughton makes key hire at sports fund GM car sales jump 11pc
▲
LEISURE
BY DAVID HELLIER
MARTIN Broughton, the former chair-
man of Liverpool Football Club, has
made a key hire at his fledgling
investment fund and advisory fund,
Sports Investment Partners.
Sports Investment said yesterday it
is hiring Matthew Wheeler, who was
chief executive of Alan Pascoe’s API
Group in the 1990s. He then had a
four-year stint as the worldwide man-
aging director of Octagon until 2001.
In this time he sat on the board of
both DC United and Major League
Soccer in the US and Eintracht
Frankfurt of the Bundesliga in
Germany.
He developed a reputation for suc-
cessfully building market leading
sports agency propositions.
Others involved in the new firm
include Broughton’s son Michael and
E.ON sells Gazprom stake
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ENERGY
BY MARION DAKERS
GERMAN energy giant E.ON has sold
its 3.5 per cent stake in Russian gas
firm Gazprom to market investors
and Russia’s state-owned investment
bank.
Vnesheconombank (VEB) will take a
2.7 per cent stake, while 0.8 per cent
has been placed in the market. E.ON
Nic Couchman, a partner at the
sports business law firm Couchmans.
“Matthew’s experience in both run-
ning leading sports businesses and in
putting together deals that add value
to all parties will be invaluable as we
continue to examine potential invest-
ments in the sport industry,” said
Broughton, who is also chairman of
British Airways.
Broughton led a dramatic sale of
Liverpool to the Boston-based NESV.
said the total proceeds from the sale
stood at €3.4bn, resulting in a book
gain of around €2.5bn.
The sale is part of E.ON’s aim of gen-
erating €15bn (£12.6m) over the next
three years through disposals and
cost-savings. The firm has previously
described the stake as a non-strategic
investment.
“We will use these proceeds to fur-
ther reduce our debt and to increase
AUTOMOTIVE
GENERAL MOTORS’ sales rose 11 per
cent in the US last month, slightly
less than industry-wide predictions
but providing a sign of returning con-
sumer demand.
GM said yesterday its four core
brands – Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and
Cadillac – clawed back some market
share with a 21 per cent rise in sales
compared with last year. The sales fig-
News 9
our flexibility for making new strate-
gic investments. The sale of our
Gazprom stake does not alter our
Russia strategy,” said E.ON chief execu-
tive Johannes Teyssen.
It was reported last week that
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin, also chairman of VEB, dis-
cussed the sale of the stake with
German chancellor Angela Merkel
during a meeting in Berlin.
Accountant
pay flat but
bonuses up
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ACCOUNTANCY
BY ALISON LOCK
THE CHRISTMAS bonus season should
be good for UK accountants, but their
salaries look set to rise at below infla-
tion rates, a new survey has found.
Six in ten City businesses expect to pay
their finance staff bonuses this year, the
survey by recruitment consultancy
Ambition found – and while account-
ants on average expect a bonus of 8.7 per
cent of salary, employers anticipated pay-
ing an average 10.8 per cent.
But while finance staff surveyed
expected five per cent salary rises in
2011 – almost two percentage points
above inflation – employers said they
expect to offer an average 2.6 per cent
raise, which falls below the current 3.2
per cent inflation rate.
Jamie Lyon, head of employer servic-
es at the ACCA, said accountants
recognised that economic conditions
had been challenging and bonuses
may not be as high as in booms.
“Finance departments are the
unsung heroes of businesses and we
support our members in trying to get
the best remuneration,” he said.
Based on current average account-
ants salaries of £42,000, bonuses
should average £4,536 – £880 higher
than expected, creating a total bonus
pot for all UK qualified accountants of
up to £3.1bn. In 2009 accountants’
total bonus pot was £0.57bn, an aver-
age of £1,974 each.
“It’s understandable that staff now
want to get their pay back in line but
the fact that businesses will be paying
higher bonuses than expected will go
some way to appeasing any disappoint-
ment,” said Ambition managing direc-
tor Tim Gilbert.
In March, the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in England and Wales
reported that members’ salaries were
down about two per cent on 2009’s
level, to an average £79,100. Bonuses
had fallen 26 per cent over the year.
ures were GM’s first since its $23bn
(£14.8bn) IPO last month.
GM said its average transaction
prices were up $1,300 in November
from a year earlier, while incentives
were down. GM said growing pent-up
demand for cars will be released as
the economy continues to improve.
Ford also reported US sales rose
24.3 per cent in November from the
same period in 2009, with 147,338
vehicles sold.
 10 News
Prudential plans to
double sales in Asia
INSURANCE
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BY MARION DAKERS
PRUDENTIAL boss Tidjane Thiam
unveiled his strategy for expand-
ing the company in Asia in the
wake of the firm’s botched bid for
AIA, sending shares up 5.6 per
cent to 600p yesterday.
Thiam, who came under intense
shareholder pressure to stand
down following his £22.7bn bid
for the Asian life insurer, told
investors he aims to double Asian
premiums by 2013, delivering
£300m to group turnover.
He said a more diverse product
mix coupled with better returns
on investments and benefits of
Tidjane Thiam
had to abort
plans to acquire
AIA after share-
holder unrest
Picture: GETTY
scale would contribute to the
gains.
“Prudential aspires to be one of
the winners in the post-financial
crisis world, with all of our busi-
nesses performing strongly. Our
strategy is sound and we continue
to pursue it with the operating
discipline that has delivered excel-
lent results on all measures over a
sustained period,” said Thiam.
Shore Capital analyst Eamonn
Flanagan said the targets for
growth and cash were ambitious.
“We view these as challenging
especially given the current eco-
nomic climate, but they should
demonstrate the virtue and scale
of the group’s operations in Asia.”
CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010
Thiam is right to look East
TIDJANE Thiam’s disastrous attempt
to acquire AIA hasn’t snuffed out his
love affair with Asia. Already booking
a third of sales in the region, Thiam
wants to go much further by dou-
bling Asian premiums over the next
three years.
Having tested shareholders’
appetite for a transformational
acquisition – and found it wanting –
Prudential will likely have to grow
organically, or by snapping up smaller
bolt-ons.
Initially, Thiam’s target seems
somewhat over-optimistic. But there
is huge hope for expansion in Asian
emerging markets. In the UK, the life
insurance penetration rate is 13 per
cent while Japan’s is 8.3 per cent. In
India and China it is far lower, around
four and two per cent respectively.
McKinsey estimates that 40 per
cent of growth in the life assurance
market will be generated by Asia,
while the compound annual growth
rate in China will exceed 15 per cent
for the next five years. With markets
at home maturing, Thiam’s decision
to look east for inspiration could still
pay off.
BOTTOMLINE
Analysis by David Crow
Prudential reported £713m pre-
tax profit in 2009 and a stronger-
than-expected 17 per cent rise in
quarterly sales in November,
helped by growth in its Asian mar-
kets.
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Sage reshuffles execs as

profits rise 20 per cent
Harrison, chief financial officer, will
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TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS l Sage

BY STEVE DINNEEN
SAGE marked expectation-beating
results yesterday with a top-level
reshuffle. New chief executive Guy
Berruyer, who recently took over from
long-standing boss Paul Walker,
announced he will promote the two
rivals he beat in the leadership race.
Paul Stobart, head of the UK and
Ireland, will take responsibility for the
whole of Northern Europe and Paul
also take responsibility for M&A.
Head of Sage France Pascal Houillon
290
will replace the retiring Sue Swenson
as North America chief.
280
Sage reported pre-tax profit up 20
per cent to £319.9m on revenue flat at
£1.44bn. 265
Organic revenue grew by three per
cent in the second half, with software
revenue up two per cent, marking the 250
first return to growth since the second
half of 2007.
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Clockwise from top left: New Sage chief
executive Guy Berruyer, Pascal Houillon
will become North American chief, Paul
Harrison, chief financial officer will take
responsibility for M&A, Paul Stobart, will
now be responsible for Northern Europe
15 Sep 14 Oct 12 Nov
 The Capitalist
CITY PUBLIC AFFAIRS
LANDSCAPE DUE FOR A
SHAKE-UP AS TIM BURT
LEAVES BRUNSWICK
TIME for some fresh blood in City
public affairs, it seems, with the
founding of a brand new financial
PR firm by Brunswick partner Tim
Burt.
Burt is set to launch Stockwell
Group along with the former chief
executive of Maitland Philip Gawith
and Financial Dynamics co-founder
Julian Hanson-Smith, both of whom
will be on the board.
And Gawith, Burt and former
Grandfield’s chief executive Nick
Boakes will be taking equal shares
alongside a minority stake for
Hanson-Smith’s Iceni Capital, the
private equity house.
But Burt’s colleagues are still in
the dark as to his rationale, admit-
ting to being “shocked” at the bold
move. After all, it’s not everyday that
a senior Brunswick guy defects to
found a rival firm.
Perhaps Burt was inspired by a
similar move by former Brunswick
partner Andrew Grant a decade ago,
when he struck out to found
Tulchan Communications. Tulchan
isn’t doing too badly with the likes
of M&S, Whitbread and ITV on its
books.
Meanwhile, The Capitalist is happy
to see that Gawith has found himself
a new home after losing out on his
CEO role at Maitland to Neil
Bennett. Whenever the City closes a
door, it opens a window…
EYES ON THE PRIZE
IT turns out Brits have some odd
expectations of the next decade,
according to MSN’s Pulse of the
Nation study out yesterday. The sur-
vey quizzed 100,000 people on their
vision of the UK in 2025 and it
turned up some interesting – and
depressing – results.
More than half of those asked said
they think that celebrity culture will
become a registered profession in 15
years, but there’s no rest for the
CITY EYE
TRADERS at the London Metal Exchange make their voices heard in the Ring, which is
one of the last open outcry pits in the world. The exchange, which was founded in 1877,
deals in aluminium, copper, tin, nickel, zinc and lead among other traded metals. The
exchange also started trading plastics in 2005.
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Colleagues of
Brunswick
partner Tim
Burt admit to
being
“shocked” at
his departure
wicked: an overwhelming 74 per
cent of people said the retirement to found a
age could reach 70 by then.
On the brighter side, 22 per cent rival.
reckon humans will have reached
Mars, with four per cent going so far
as to envision a permanent base
being set up. Let’s hope the grounds
for the next space race aren’t quite
as traumatic as the Cold War.
But at least humanity is also
expected to advance in other ways.
Brits seem to have their eyes on a,
ahem, bigger prize than the red
plant: 40 per cent think that penile Former Maitland chief executive Philip Gawith has found a new home.
implants and “man boob” surgery
will be commonplace by 2025. raise £8m next week in London, with
A brave nude world awaits. a 1958 250 GT LWB Ferrari (pictured)
expected to go for between £800,000-
STILL FIGHTING
Tragic timing for the Institute for
£1m and a 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom Turnaround yesterday as it convened
GERMAN GHOSTS II Tourer on offer for £180,000 to its annual awards to celebrate
EUROPE is amply aware that its £200,000. British businesses with a knack for
biggest economy isn’t keen to “These are the ultimate Christmas survival in hard times.
become a cash cow for its bankrupt presents,” says COYS MD Chris Just as the institute was preparing
neighbours, but fears in Routledge. You to hand its private company turn-
Germany could be don’t say. around of the year award to Bernard
reaching fever pitch Matthews Ltd, the turkey producer,
for an additional rea- the firm’s founder Bernard
son, according to Matthews passed away.
Frankfurt University “Bernard Matthews fought
professor Wilhelm off tough competition to
Hankel. “Germany can- win,” the institute
not keep paying for announced regardless,
bailouts without going bank- five days after the
rupt itself,” he said, adding that peo- announcement of
ple remember losing their savings Matthews’ death.
due to hyperinflation in the ’20s. Whoops. Bernard Matthews passed away last week
“You cannot find a bank safe deposit
box in Germany because every single
one has already been taken and
stuffed with gold and silver.”
Time to start clearing space under
the mattress.
VINTAGE HEAVEN
City vintage car lovers have a lot of
presents to look forward to this
Christmas – £8m’s worth of gifts, to
be precise. COYS auction house,
which specialises in rare vehicles,
will hold a sale which is expected to
Picture: Micha Theiner/City A.M.
 14 Economic News
Promising lift
for production
helps US jobs
▲
US ECONOMY
BY JULIAN HARRIS
INDUSTRIAL growth in the US still
offers hope for an economic recovery,
a survey released yesterday indicated.
The ISM manufacturing index,
which assesses the state of US indus-
try, came in at 56.6 for November –
displaying growth slightly above the
rate expected by economists.
There was a large dip in the rate of
production growth, which fell 7.7
points to 55. Yet the positive figure,
over 50, still reflects a reasonable
increase in production, after October
recorded a huge increase of 6.2 points
on September.
The pace of expansion in employ-
ment also eased slightly to 57.5 in
November from 57.7 in October.
The result mirrored the results of
the the ADP employment survey,
which reported an increase in private
sector employment of 93,000 from
October to November.
And ADP also revised up the
CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010
Manufacturing
growth is being
seen around the
world, shown
where PMI is
greater than 50.
In Europe (bottom
left) periphery
countries are still
struggling.
employment figures for October,
showing an increase of 82,000. The
data provide a boost for the economy,
although some economists warned
that increases would have to hit six
figures per month in order to signifi-
cantly improve America’s employ-
ment slump.
On Tuesday night Fed chairman
Ben Bernanke spoke of the “social
and economic” consequences of
unemployment, which currently
stands at 9.6 per cent. Almost 40 per
cent of America’s unemployed have
been out of work for over six months,
he said. Yet more positive employ-
ment news came yesterday from
revised Department of Labor figures.
The department said that the num-
ber of hours worked by employees
increased by 1.4 per cent in the three
months to September – up from the
previous projection of 1.1 per cent.
Meanwhile construction spending
rose by 0.7 per cent in October, sur-
prising economists who had expected
stagnation.
CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010
Industry bounces back in UK
▲
UK ECONOMY
BY JULIAN HARRIS
RECORD breaking statistics are point-
ing to a resurgent UK economy,
according to authoritative data
released yesterday.
Jobs growth in manufacturing for
November raced forwards at its
fastest rate since 1992, when the
Markit/CPI Purchasing Managers
Index (PMI) began collecting data.
And UK manufacturing growth hit
a sixteen year high, after production
rose for 18 months in a row.
The index increased to 58 in
November, and October’s rate was
revised up to 55.4. The PMI is used as
an indicator of economic activity, and
Indian factory output recovers well..... .....but high inflation scares China
▲
ASIA ECONOMY
BY JULIAN HARRIS
INDIAN industry continues to grow
after suffering a decline in 2009, data
accrued by HSBC revealed yesterday.
In November industry growth rose
to above the long-run average, acceler-
ating for the second successive month.
The Purchasing Managers Index
(PMI) jumped to 58.4 in November, up
from 57.2 in October.
The volume of new orders and
export business also grew, the former
all figures above 50 indicate a rise.
The figures reflect stronger output
growth and inflows of new work and
new export orders, the authors said.
“Job creation was attributed to the
ongoing economic recovery,” they
added. On Monday employment fore-
casts were revised upwards by the
Office for Budget Responsibility.
The private sector is forecast to add
1.5m jobs by 2015, with unemploy-
ment falling to around six per cent.
“Today’s survey supports our view
that growth this quarter will be at
least 0.5 per cent,” said Hetal Mehta of
Daiwa Capital Markets.
“Any notion that the Bank of
England is poised to implement more
quantitative easing in the near term
reaching its strongest rate for four
months.
Yet employment in manufacturing
was slightly down. Respondents to the
survey cited workers leaving for higher
wages in other areas.
And inflation remains a problem,
with output price inflation now sus-
tained for over a year.
“A spike in backlogs suggest tight
capacity, which together with rising
prices underscores the need for contin-
ued monetary policy tightening,” said
Leif Eskesen, chief economist at HSBC.
should now be dispelled,” she said.
Yet manufacturing only accounts
for 12.8 per cent of GDP, warned
Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight.
ASIA ECONOMY
BY JULIAN HARRIS
HIGH inflation is haunting China’s
industrial sector, data from HSBC
showed yesterday.
Input prices shot up at the fourth
fastest rate in the history of the
Purchasing Managers Index (PMI).
Economists pointed to low supply of
goods, and panic buying in the face of
further price rises. Prices of cotton,
grain, oil and steel all increased.
And manufacturers passed on the
Economic News
“Nonetheless, this is a superb, encour-
aging survey,” he added. “And the
more forward looking elements
showed improvement.”
higher costs to consumers, with “facto-
ry gate” prices rocketing at a record
rate for the index.
Consumer prices hit a 25 month
high in November, with food inflation
surging beyond 10 per cent.
In response, Beijing could increase
rates by a quarter of a per cent, said
economist Hongbin Qu from HSBC.
However, economic growth contin-
ues to push forwards in China. The
PMI, which measures manufacturing
business conditions, was 55.3 for
November, up from October’s 54.8.
15
Germany drives
manufacturing
up in Eurozone
EUROZONE ECONOMY
▲
RECOVERY in the Eurozone continues
to be driven by Germany and France,
new figures revealed yesterday.
Manufacturing growth showed a
modest increase in November across
the single currency area.
The Purchasing Managers Index
(PMI) for manufacturing rose to 55.3,
up from 54.6 in October.
French PMI hit its highest rate for a
decade, shooting up to 57.9, from
October’s 55.2.
Meanwhile in Germany, the
increase in manufacturing employ-
ment rose at the second highest rate
in the history of the index.
Yet the situation remains bleak in
peripheral areas of the Eurozone, par-
ticularly troubled states such as Spain
and Greece.
Manufacturing PMI in Spain
dropped to 50, the rate at which no
growth is recorded. Output, new
orders and employment all contract-
ed, dropping below the 50 mark.
The decline of Greek manufactur-
ing continues, with PMI still sunk at
43.9, despite a minor improvement of
0.3 points.
“While there was a slight upturn in
Ireland, its rate of growth is way
below that needed for meaningful
recovery,” said Chris Williamson, an
economist at Markit.
CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010
House prices
down 3.9 per
cent on June
▲
MORTGAGES
BY JULIAN HARRIS
HOUSE prices fell by another 0.3 per
cent in November, mortgage-lender
Nationwide announced yesterday.
The news follows an even sharper
drop in the previous month, as prices
fell 0.7 per cent on September.
Prices have either fallen or stagnat-
ed since June, according to
Nationwide’s statistics.
The average house price in the UK
is now £163,398, whereas in June
houses were averaging over £170,000,
more than 3.9 per cent higher.
The announcement echoes recent
gloomy news for the housing market
from other sources.
On Monday the Bank of England
declared that mortgage approvals
sank to an eight month low in
October, totalling just 47,185.
And that afternoon the Office for
Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecast a
3.1 per fall in prices for the coming
year, despite predicting strong eco-
nomic growth and a rise in employ-
ment.
But these factors are unlikely to
make much difference to the housing
slump, according to Howard Archer
UK recovery on Investors look
track, says Dale to new markets
▲
UK ECONOMY
CUTS in government spending will
not derail the British recovery, the
Bank of England’s chief economist
said last night.
Spencer Dale insisted that current
monetary policy should ensure that
the recovery continues, even though
some households directly affected by
the cuts would suffer.
Earlier in the week the Office for
Budget Responsibility said that
growth for this year would hit 1.8 per
cent, higher than previous forecasts.
“The economy is likely to grow at
rates around or a little above its his-
torical average," Dale said.
News 17
279,000 business
Economists warn
that house prices
could continue to
tumble throughout
the next year.
Picture:
Micha Theiner
/City A.M. closures reported
cent, the ONS announced.
▲
UK ECONOMY
BY JULIAN HARRIS This week the government said it
would cut corporation tax to 10 per
BUSINESS closures have hit their cent on UK produced patented goods.
highest level for ten years, according The plans were criticised by the
to figures the Office of National Institute for Fiscal Studies, who said it
Statistics (ONS) released yesterday. would harm tax receipts and add
Closures were up 26 per cent in complexity to the tax system.
2009, amounting to 279,000 compa- But Alec van Gelder of the think
nies winding up their operations. tank International Policy Network
Research and development (R&D) said the policy would “stimulate
was also down in 2009, by 4.1 per innovation, investment, and jobs.”
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Lord Sugar gives apprentices his shopping list
THE APPRENTICE REVIEW
GRAEME ALLISTER
HEAVENLY start to this week’s
A Apprentice. The final seven
gathered on top of Tower 42
and as the morning light
bathed Lord Sugar in an ethereal
glow, a chorus of angels could be
heard. Quite what this had to do with
Wellstream
opens books
to its suitors
▲
ENERGY
BY HARRY BANKS
WELLSTREAM has entered into for-
mal talks with General Electric and
National Oilwell Varco over a poten-
tial £755m bid, it is understood.
The oil pipe-maker is said to have
allowed both firms access to its books
as it tries to negotiate a higher offer
from the two bidders.
GE said in October Wellstream had
rejected an approach it made which
valued the company at £755m.
“This is what we’ve been expecting:
that the reason that there was a delay
was because GE and National Oilwell
Varco were doing their due dili-
gence,” said Royal Bank of Canada
analyst Todd Scholl.
Scholl said he thought any new bid
would have to be pitched at between
775p and 800p per share and proba-
bly closer to 800p.
Wellstream makes flexible pipes
used by oil companies in deep water,
an area set for strong growth due to
major finds in Brazil, where state-run
oil firm Petrobras accounted for
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HSBC
HSBC has announced the appointment of
Hossam Alsaady as head of its Saudi Arabia
team within the London-based Middle East and
North Africa division of its private banking
business. Alsaady is moving over from his role
at NCB Capital in Jeddah, where he has held
several senior positions, most recently head of
strategy. At HSBC, he will be reporting to
Bassem Snaije in London and Sobhi Tabbara in
Geneva.
Cushman & Wakefield
Real estate services firm Cushman &
Wakefield has announced the appoint-
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getting chicken feet on the cheap
wasn’t clear.
This was the wheeling and dealing
challenge. No elaborate pitches or
marketing bombast to hide behind,
just good old fashioned haggling and
it was boys against the girls.
Given a list of ten items, the candi-
dates had to find everything from a
Singer sewing machine to a white
truffle.
SELLING TRUFFLES
“Truffle? That’s the food, isn’t it?”
asked Jamie. He wasn’t waiting to
find out: his tactic was to hit the
streets immediately, with him work-
ing alone and Chris and Stuart work-
ing as a double act.
around 60 per cent of Wellstream’s
business in 2009.
“It’s important that these compa-
nies make sure that Petrobras is on
board with their acquisition of the
company because clearly that’s the
future driver of growth,” Scholl
added.
GE said in October it was “disci-
plined” about deals and it might not
make another approach or could do
so “on less favourable terms”.
Wellstream said on 21 September it
had received a number of approach-
es, sending its shares up by 29 per
cent that day. The share price has
since hovered between 740p and
760p, falling by one per cent overall
in the last month.
Yesterday, the shares closed up 1.2
per cent at 742p.
Wellstream, whose main competi-
tor in flexible pipe making is the
French offshore engineering group
Technip, has been a frequent subject
of takeover speculation.
Market chatter has often linked it
to Europe's largest oil services compa-
ny, Saipem.
ment of Tony Edwards and Simon Wild
as partners in its southern retail agency
team. They both move over from
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Liz, leading Apollo, took a more
measured approach, working out
what each item was and where
best to find it. Not that this fil-
tered down to the rest of the
team. Trying to sniff out the
elusive truffle, Stella
thought she’d call up Marco
Pierre White’s restaurant
and see if he could help.
Sadly, Marco wasn’t avail-
able. Not to worry, she’d try
Gordon Ramsay. That’s the
spirit.
Despite this, the
girls did well, get-
ting all 10 items
with relative
ease. The boys
BEST OF THE BROKERS
ANALYSIS l SAB Miller
p
2,150
2,083.00
01 Dec
2,050
1,950
6 Sep 24 sep 14 Oct 3 Nov 23 Nov
SAB MILLER
Nomura rates the brewer “reduce” with a
target price of £19.75. The broker has con-
tinued concerns about the US beer market,
and that planned investment in marketing
and IT would hold back any increase in
margins. Nomura notes SAB’s recent claim
that revenue growth would be around two
per cent, slightly below earlier guidance.
Dubai Holding extends £355m loan
▲
DUBAI
CONGLOMERATE Dubai Holding’s
main unit has extended a $555m
(£355m) loan due on 30 November by
one month, reinforcing niggling
doubts over Dubai’s ability to resolve
its debt troubles.
This was the third extension for
Dubai Holding’s loss-making hospi-
tality and property arm, Dubai
Holding Commercial Operations
Edited by Juliet Samuel
Churston Heard, which was bought by
Jones Lang LaSalle in 2008.
MGM Advantage
Retirement specialist and mutual socie-
ty MGM Advantage has appointed
Brian Harrison and Isabel Hudson as
non-executive directors. Harrison will
be the firm’s new chairman of the risk
committee while Hudson will sit on the
investment committee among other
duties.
Harrison has over 30 years’ experi-
ence in the pensions business, having
begun his career at the Gresham Group
and worked at Friends Provident.
Hudson also has 30 years’ experience,
had more trouble.
Jamie in particular had a stressful
day. After trawling jewellery shops
he finally found out what a 22
carat gold tikka was before
spending hours tracking down
a four-metre worktop surface.
Man hasn’t hunted this mono-
maniacally since Moby Dick.
CHRIS’ AM DRAM
Meanwhile, Chris went in for a
bit of amateur dramatics. To
get a good deal he spun
a variety of tales
involving a tar-
tan-loving gran
in need of a
wedding pres-
ANALYSIS l Tesco
p
414.20
440
01 Dec
430
420
410
6 Sep 24 sep 14 Oct 3 Nov 23 Nov
TESCO
Jeffries International rates the supermar-
ket “hold” with a target price of 450p. The
broker expects the firm’s Q3 results next
week to confirm pedestrian UK trading
momentum that could add to a short-term
drag on shares. It predicts quarterly sales
growth of six per cent, making it the slow-
est growing of the big four grocers.
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Group (DHCOG). It previously
delayed the loan in July and
September.
“The extension is required to
finalise a new long-term facility,” the
company said yesterday.
Analysts say there was general
optimism that Dubai would be able
to successfully restructure debt at
Dubai Holding and its units.
State-owned conglomerate Dubai
World sent global markets reeling
in association with
but in insurance. She has worked at
Prudential UK and set up a specialist
annuity company Synesis Life in 2006.
Generation Investment
Generation Investment Management,
the investment management firm, has
appointed Mike Ramsay a partner in its
London office. Ramsay moves from the
Carlyle Group, where he was global
head of leveraged finance. He has also
worked at Prudential M&G.
Aviva Investors
Bart Coenraads has joined Aviva
Investors as head of real estate multi-
manager, Asia-Pacific. He will be
CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010
ent and a taxi-driver brother about to
fail his exams.
Incidentally if you’re looking for a
business investment, Chris is good
friends with a Nigerian prince.
But despite their haphazard style
and incomplete shopping trolley, the
boys still won and no one was as
shocked as they were.
With the girls back in the board-
room, it all came down to that truf-
fle, finally bought by Laura and Stella
from a Knightsbridge restaurant.
Needless to say they didn’t pay cost
price.
Lord Sugar made his decision and
this time there was no room for hag-
gling.
Laura, you’re fired.
ANALYSIS l Shaftesbury
p
444.40
465
01 Dec
455
445
435
425
6 Sep 24 sep 14 Oct 3 Nov 23 Nov
SHAFTESBURY
Liberum Capital has upgraded the property
company to “hold” from “sell” with an
upgraded target price of 430p. The broker
sees founder and chief executive Jonathan
Lane’s retirement as a potential drag on the
share price, but is more optimistic about
rental value growth. It has raised its 2011
net asset value forecast by one per cent.
last year when it requested a stand-
still on almost $25bn of debt. The
company secured unanimous
approval for its restructuring plan in
under a year.
DHCOG, a unit of the conglomer-
ate owned by the Gulf Arab emirate’s
ruler, took a big hit from its exposure
to Dubai’s property crash and said in
June it might resort to asset sales to
deal with its debt after posting a
$6.2bn loss for 2009.
responsible for the development of the
firm’s strategy in this area and will be
reporting to Ed Casal.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
PwC has hired Nigel Vooght as head
of its financial services business, replac-
ing Jeremy Scott. Vooght will lead
PwC’s global banking and capital mar-
ket services.
Metro Bank
Mark Price has been appointed man-
aging director of commercial banking
at new high-street bank Metro Bank.
Price will be responsible for building up
the firm’s business clients.
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RBS finalises WorldPay sale SIMON WARSHAW

UBS
team advising UBS.
Warshaw has spent 24 years at
UBS, and helped found the bank’s
media sector group in the 1990s. He
made it onto the Guardian’s Media
100 list last year for his role in Lord
have announced they will invest tions last year worth £243bn through Carter’s Digital Britain report.
▲

M&A
BY MARION DAKERS
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND (RBS)
finalised the sale of its WorldPay busi-
ness yesterday, while new owners
Advent International and Bain
Capital pledged to invest £200m in
the payment processing firm.
The EU-enforced sale of the £2bn
business, agreed in August, leaves
RBS with a 20 per cent stake in the
company. Advent and Bain promised
at the time to invest in technology
platforms and product range for
WorldPay, which processes credit and
debt card payments. The new owners
£200m on expanding the business,
which will create 250 jobs in the next
six months.
Ron Kalifa, who will remain chief
executive at WorldPay following the
sale, said: “Independence and private
ownership give us the potential to
transform the payments industry
through long term investment in our
technology, our people and our busi-
ness.”
Advent and Bain’s respective man-
aging directors James Brocklebank
and Robin Marshall will take up
places on WorldPay’s board.
WorldPay processed 6.8bn transac-
brands including Streamline, which
the firm says underpins half of all UK
high street card payments. RBS hired UBS to run the WorldPay
auction earlier this year and the bank
ANALYSIS l RBS 39.88 has advised throughout the disposal.
p
01 Dec The contract was another win for
52
UBS which has cashed in on the
50
bounce-back in the M&A market, fin-
ishing in the top ten global advisers in
46 the first half of this year. It was the
top adviser in Asia Pacific, with the
42 highest revenues in that region.
Head of EMEA investment banking
38 Simon Warshaw and managing direc-
15 Sep 14 Oct 12 Nov
tor Patrick Porritt were part of the
Warshaw also advised RBS on its
disposal of 318 high street branches
to Santander earlier this year.
UBS is currently advising BSkyB,
along with Morgan Stanley, in its bid
to get the best price from Rupert
Murdoch’s News Corp. It also worked
with Telefonica on its €7.5bn (£6.3bn)
bid for a stake in Vivo, which fell
through in July. Advent International
and Bain Capital were advised by
Credit Suisse, Weil Gotshal & Manges,
Kirkland & Ellis, PwC, FT Advisors Ltd,
First Annapolis and McKinsey &
Company.

UK superfast
broadband
take-up lags
nificantly over the next two years,
▲

TELECOMS
BY STEVE DINNEEN
THE UK has the worst take-up of
superfast broadband of any major
developed nation, new research by
the communications watchdog has
revealed.
Just 0.2 per cent of people in the UK
have access to broadband speeds of
30Mbits a second or higher. This com-
pares to 34.4 per cent of people in
Japan, 12 per cent in Sweden and 7.1
per cent in the US.
Ofcom says it expects this to
increase as BT rolls out its Infinity
broadband package and Virgin con-
tinues to expand its cable offering.
With ambitious rollout plans that
include connecting rural areas to
superfast networks, Ofcom estimates
the UK will have the highest prolifera-
tion of speeds over 30Mbits a second
in Europe by 2015.
The UK also lags behind in super-
fast mobile networks, with a maxi-
mum possible download speed of just
7.2Mbits a second – level with France
but far behind Sweden with 100Mbits
a second. Japan, Australia and Poland
all have theoretical download speeds
of 42Mbits a second.
Ofcom also expects this to rise sig-
with two major spectrum auctions
coming up which will relieve pres-
sure on mobile data networks. The
most significant will be the auction
of the 800MHz spectrum which is cur-
rently used for analogue TV but will
be available after the digital
switchover is complete.
The study of communications
trends also shows that the UK is
cheaper than any major European
nation or the US for mobile, broad-
band and TV.
The UK leads Europe for internet
purchases, with the average online
spend per person reaching £1,031 –
almost twice the next highest
nations, France with £595 and
Germany with £588.
Ofcom believes this is down to the
higher proliferation of credit cards in
the UK, the early growth of Amazon
here and the tradition of catalogue
purchases. The share of online adver-
tising is also higher in the UK than in
any of the comparator countries, at
27 per cent. The US has 17 per cent
and Japan has 15 per cent.
IPTV has been slow to take off in
the UK but this is expected to grow
when BBC-backed venture YouView
launches next year.

ANALYSIS l Broadband Source: iDate

34.4%
Cable
Superfast broadband
Fiber to the home

12.0%

7.1%
5.2%

2.0% 1.4%
1.1% 0.4% 0.3%
0.2%
UK FRA GER ITA USA JPN AUS SPA NED SWE
 20 News
Aegis snaps up Russian rival
▲
MEDIA
BY HARRY BANKS
MEDIA group Aegis yesterday expand-
ed its presence in Russia by snapping
up a majority stake in the country’s
biggest independent market research
business.
Aegis acquired Comcon through
Synovate, its market research group,
for an undisclosed amount.
According to the terms of the deal, it
could acquire the remainder of the
business in 2015.
Comcon, which has offices in
Moscow and St Petersburg, produced
$18.9m (£12.1m) of sales in 2009 and
Thomas Cook
profits dip in
tough market
▲
AVIATION
BY ALISON LOCK
HOLIDAY operator Thomas Cook yes-
terday said it would slash costs by up
to £50m after a “demanding” year
that saw profits come in at the lower
end of expectations.
Profit before tax fell six per cent
compared to 2009 to £277m, while
revenues were down four per cent to
£8.89bn. The UK and US markets were
particularly tough, with UK underly-
ing profit falling by a third on the pre-
vious year. This was due to
“significant foreign exchange head-
winds” from sterling’s weakness
against the dollar and euro, as well as
lower demand for holidays. The five-
day closure of EU airspace in April due
to volcanic ash also cost it about
£100m in revenues, the company said.
Thomas Cook is now reducing its
UK cost base and aims to generate
£40m to £50m in cost savings.
It expects the changes to cost £20m
to implement, incurred in the 2010-11
financial year, but believes they will
mitigate any further deterioration in
the market.
It has already cut 500 managerial
and support jobs since October.
“We recognised at the outset that
Numis full-year profits up 87 per cent
as it adds new clients and capabilities version of iPlayer on iPad
▲
FINANCIAL SERVICES
BY ALISON LOCK
INVESTMENT banker and broker
Numis has strengthened its position,
reporting improved profits as well as
growing its client portfolio, it report-
ed in its full-year results yesterday.
Operating revenues rose nine per
cent to £51.9m, from £47.5m the pre-
vious year, and profit before tax grew
87 per cent to £7.9m from £4.2m,
excluding one-off charges relating to
its employee share scheme.
has 200 employees.
Aegis chief executive Jerry
Buhlmann said the acquisition would
give it the scale to expand further in
the relatively immature Russian mar-
ket research sector.
Meanwhile, Aegis Media has
appointed Simon Francis as its new
chief executive for the Europe,
Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region.
Francis, who was poached from
rival Saatchi & Saatchi, will report
directly to Buhlmann.
Buhlmann said: “Simon has a
wealth of experience both in the sec-
tor and the region with an impressive
track record which speaks for itself.”
2009 to 10 would be demanding,” said
chief executive Manny Fontenla-
Novoa. “While we made good
progress in many of our operating
segments and delivered a strong
improvement in operating cash flow,
trading in the UK was even tougher
than anticipated.”
The results meant an overall loss
per share of 0.3p, down from 2009 eps
of 0.8p per share. The company will
pay a final dividend of 10.75p,
unchanged from 2009’s level.
Analysts remained upbeat about
the fundamentals and said the results
were as expected, though Wyn Ellis of
Numis warned of a tough year ahead.
“We find it difficult to identify a near
term catalyst; while shares look cheap
they may continue to drift,” he said.
ANALYSIS l Thomas Cook
p 178.00
200 01 Dec
195
185
175
15 Sep 14 Oct 12 Nov
Numis has focused on strengthen-
ing the business by recruiting new
teams, adding new capabilities and,
crucially, growing its client base. It
brought 29 new clients on board this
year, taking the total to 133 and its
stable of FTSE 250 clients to 26, chief
executive Oliver Hemsley said.
The firm has also conducted major
flotations such as Betfair, Ocado and
Better Capital, he said. It assisted
clients in raising £1.3bn in equity
funds in the past year, 67 per cent
more than the previous year.
CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010
Anite buoyed by strong
Francis said he was “delighted” to
mobile market recovery
be joining Aegis, which he said had
“an amazing track record of innova-
tion.” well in the first half of this financial
▲
TECHNOLOGY
year compared to a weak first half last
ANALYSIS l Aegis 136.30 SOFTWARE testing firm Anite yester- year.
p 01 Dec day announced its first half pre tax “Strong recovery in both handsets
140 profits soared 160 per cent to £6.5m. and networks produced a result sub-
135 Its revenue jumped 20 per cent to stantially ahead of last year with
£42.3m. It also hiked its interim divi- group revenues and profits exceeding
dend five per cent to 0.315p per share. the Board’s prior expectations.
125 It was buoyed by a market-led “We believe that Anite is better
recovery in both its handsets and net- positioned to take advantage of the
works divisions but saw its travel arm new 4G market than for previous
115 profits dip. technologies, and that the 4G cycle is
Chief executive Christopher also likely to be deep and long last-
15 Sep 14 Oct 12 Nov Humphrey said: “Anite performed ing.”
Airbus plans
€1bn upgrade
of key aircraft
▲
AVIATION
Thomas Cook chief
executive Manny EUROPEAN planemaker Airbus plans
Fontenla-Novoa to upgrade its best-selling A320 medi-
said 2009 to 10 um-haul jets from 2016 with new
would be “demand- engines offering 15 per cent fuel sav-
ing”. ings, as it fends off upstart competi-
Picture: REX tors.
Airbus said yesterday that it would
invest just over €1bn (£840m) in the
ANALYST VIEWS: WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF “A320neo” project to improve effi-
ciency and cut harmful emissions
THOMAS COOK’S RESULTS? Interviews by Alison Lock and noise.
Until now, Airbus and US rival
Boeing, with its 737, had resisted
KEVIN BOWMAN | HARGREAVES LANSDOWN changing winning designs that are
“
the backbone of the global airline
business and helped give birth to the
Despite a year that investors and management will want to forget, low-cost sector.
Thomas Cook continues to receive the benefit of the doubt. Costs in more mature The new planes, with upward-
”
markets continue to be targeted, while sales expansion in emerging markets pro- slanting wingtips, will look almost
vide future growth prospects, and winter bookings offer further cheer. identical to existing aircraft but have
larger and more efficient engines
from either US group Pratt &
NICK BATRAM | PEEL HUNT Whitney or CFM International, a
“
joint venture between US conglomer-
ate General Electric and French
Trading conditions are challenging but overall we think the update is reassur- group Safran.
ing. Good underlying progress has been overshadowed by the tough consumer back- The long-awaited decision hit back
”
drop. While market conditions stay difficult we feel the group is close to trough at Canadian group Bombardier,
earnings; a price to earnings ratio of under eight times hardly looks demanding. China and Russia, who all aim to
challenge Airbus and Boeing for a
segment of the global jetliner mar-
SAM HART | CHARLES STANLEY ket, worth $1.7 trillion (£1.09 trillion)
“
over 20 years. It was also a critical
move in a war between enginemak-
These results were in line with soft expectations, impacted by disrup- ers for dominance as the aviation
tion relating to the volcanic ash cloud and weak underlying trading in the UK busi- industry climbs out of recession.
”
ness. The shares look cheap but the quality of earnings in the tour operator The new engines will be offered as
sub-sector is poor. We expect investors to remain wary of the shares. an option on A320 and derivative
A319 and A321 models.
BBC to launch commercial
“We have managed to attract a lot of
▲
very good quality clients,” Hemsley said.
TECHNOLOGY in the second quarter next year.
BY STEVE DINNEEN
Numis has strengthened its bal- Meanwhile, Virgin Media yesterday
ance sheet, reporting net assets of THE BBC yesterday announced it will announced details of its new TiVo-
£106.7m with £58.2m cash and collat- launch a global commercial version powered internet TV service.
eral, and it lowered costs by seven per of its iPlayer TV-on-demand platform The roll out will begin later this
cent on the previous year. through a subscription service on the month. The package will cost £199
Hemsley said he anticipates more iPad. plus a monthly subscription fee.
M&A activity in 2011 and growing A BBC spokesman told City A.M. the TiVo, which has been available in
demand for non-bank lending from iPad app will launch in the second the US for several years, includes a
companies. “Banks will be curtailed quarter of 2011. It is expected to be fol- recommendation feature which will
in their ability to lend to corporate lowed by a full online roll out which predict shows a user may enjoy based
clients, so we think there will be sig- will offer some free content supple- on their viewing habits and personal
nificant opportunities,” he said. mented by advertising. ratings.
 Markets&Investment 21

LONDON’S TOP 250

Company Name Closing Price Price Change 52wk high 52wk low Company Name Closing Price Price Change 52wk high 52wk low Company Name Closing Price Price Change 52wk high 52wk low Name Closing Price Price Change 52wk high 52wk low
(p) (p) (p) (p) (p) (p) (p) (p) (p) (p) (p) (p)Company (p) (p) (p) (p)
3i Group 307 8.75 326 250 Colt Telecom 124.75 3 142.5 109 Jardine Lloyd 590 7 600 435.75 Rolls-Royce Group 618.5 9.5 654.5 473.5
3i Infrastructure 117.5 0.25 118.5 97 Compass Group 568.5 13 568.5 425 John Wood Group 497.5 30.5 497.5 285 Rotork 1608 29 1895 1145
A.B. Foods 1078 17 1107 797 Cookson Group 560.5 22 607 367.5 Johnson Matthey 1832 48 1973 1446 Royal Bank of Scot 40 2.25 58 28.5
Aberdeen Asset.Man. 185 6 190 112.75 Croda International 1522 68 1522 749.5 JPM Flem.Emerg Mkt. 609.5 12 618 450.5 RSA Insurance Grp 124 3.75 136.5 114.75
Admiral Group 1561 33 1693 1070 Daily Mail & Gen 529.5 10.5 567.5 404 Jupiter Fund Man 300 0 306 180.25 SABMiller 2083 49 2157 1650
Aegis Group 136.25 4.25 136.25 103.5 Davis Service 398 6.75 435 360.25 Kazakhmys 1460 74 1630 965 Sage Group 271 13.75 285 220
Afren 128 2.75 134 79 De La Rue 637 59 1005 549.5 Kesa Electricals 168.75 4.5 170.75 99.25 Sainsbury (J) 355.75 0 395 313
African Barrick Gold 539.5 19.5 670 503 Debenhams 71.5 1 84.25 53 Kingfisher 237.75 2.75 250 198.5 Schroders 1658 62 1676 1116
Aggreko 1523 58 1685 768 Derwent London 1457 25 1605 1208 Ladbrokes 125.5 2 162.75 123.5 Schroders NV 1316 45 1325 929.5
Alliance Trust 357 8 361.25 293.5 Dexion Abs 140.25 -0.75 148 131.25 Lancashire 622 8 647 422.25 Scot.& Sth. Energy 1112 -8 1198 1010
Amec 1129 48 1154 733.5 Diageo 1146 2 1193 1000 Land Securities 638.5 9.5 696.5 545 Scottish Mortgage 667 10 683 475
Amlin 388 12.5 433 357.25 Dixons Retail 25.5 0.25 38 23.75 Legal & General 94.5 3.25 106.25 69.75 SEGRO 281.25 8 352 250.25
Anglo American 2898.5 78 3055 2254 Domino’s Pizza 542 16 542 280.75 Lloyds Banking Grp 64 3.75 77.5 46.5 Serco Group 557 14.5 651 494.25
Antofagasta 1361 46 1472 761 Drax Group 358 4.5 444 326.25 Logica 118.25 1.5 148 101.75 Severn Trent 1410 -36 1468 1010
Aquarius Platinum 330 5.5 458 227 DS Smith 192.5 6.25 192.5 104 London Stock Ex. 767 8.5 795.5 544 Shaftesbury 444.5 9.5 460 349.25
ARM Holdings 401.5 5.75 414.5 160.25 Dunelm 503 0 510 325.25 Lonmin 1750 57 2157 1355 Shire 1497 -6 1567 1159
Ashmore Group 348 7.75 383.75 218 easyJet 434.25 6.25 496.5 341.5 Man Group 272.5 7.75 328.5 202 SIG 113.5 2.5 137.75 90.75
Ashtead Group 131.5 0.5 135 66.25 Edin.Inv.Tst. 435.25 7 464.25 351.5 Marks & Spencer 384.75 12 427.5 323.5 Smith & Nephew 593.5 11 696.5 537.5
AstraZeneca 3035 39.5 3385 2732 Electrocomponents 268 6 269.5 161.75 Meggitt 337.5 13 337.5 239.25 Smiths Group 1162 24 1285 954
Atkins (WS) 722 22 792.5 556.5 Enquest 141.5 3 141.5 89.25 Melrose 290.25 -3 304.25 162 Soco International 342.75 9.25 484.25 292
Autonomy 1359 26 1975 1271 Essar Energy 538.5 16.5 548 383 Mercantile Inv Tst 1013 29.5 1028 822.5 Spectris 1165 24 1222 691.5
Aveva Group 1533 33 1575 942.5 Eurasian Nat Res 903.5 25 1266 818 Michael Page 483 6.5 503.5 345.25 Spirax-Sarco 1846 48 1870 1094
Aviva 369.25 14.5 423.5 294.25 Euromoney Inst. 704 9 708 405 Micro Focus 359.5 28 546.5 276 Spirent 152.5 7.5 156 92
Babcock International 527 6.5 635 492.75 Experian Group 751.5 17 751.5 572 Millennium & Cop. 536.5 7 570 342 Sports Direct 127 -1.25 152.75 92.25
BAE Systems 327 -3.25 388.75 294.75 Ferrexpo 358 9.25 396 179.5 Misys 295.5 3.25 298.25 200.5 St James’s Place 240.5 4.5 292 204.25
Balfour Beatty 277 3.25 303 229.75 FirstGroup 371 9.25 426 336 Mitchells & Butlers 349 7 356 247.5 Stagecoach Group 200 2.75 224 150
Barclays 268 11.75 383.25 255.25 For.&Col.Inv.Tst 295.25 4.5 299.75 251.5 Mitie Group 213.5 6.25 241 188.75 Standard Chartered 1799 68 1950 1351.75
Barratt Development 70.75 0.75 142 70 Fresnillo 1459 48 1469 669.5 Mondi 478 9.25 557.5 321.5 Standard Life 203.25 2 236 173
BBA Aviation 194.5 4.25 217.25 152 G4S 239 1.25 283.5 237.75 Monks Inv.tst. 341.5 5.5 349.25 265.5 Supergroup 1638 68 1638 535
Berkeley Grp Hldgs 824 16.5 892.5 742 Genesis E.m.f. 527 8 540.5 399 Morgan Crucible 239.5 0.5 254 145.5 TalkTalk 156 3.5 156 108.5
BG Group 1191 29.5 1296 984 GKN 195.5 7.5 195.5 102 Morrison (Wm) 272.5 0.5 306.25 257.5 Talvivaara Mining 518 27.25 581 342.5
BHP Billiton 2363 78 2469 1684.5 GlaxoSmithKline 1231 19 1339.5 1095 Murray Int.Tst 907.5 15 936 720 Tate & Lyle 520 10 531.5 388.75
BlackRock Mining 740.5 29 740.5 492 Great Portland Est. 336 6 364 268 National Express 227 4 259.5 165.5 Taylor Wimpey 24.25 0.25 44 22.25
BlueBay 483 0 489.25 258 Greene King 449.75 -1.25 468.25 376.25 National Grid 552.5 -15.5 613.25 484.25 Telecity Group 474 5.5 532.5 335
BlueCrest AllBlue 173.75 0.25 174.5 152 Halfords Group 409.25 0.25 550 372.75 Next 2016 6 2344 1817 Templeton Emrg. 653 18 685 471.5
Booker Group 55.25 0 56 38.75 Halma 331.75 18.25 343 223 Northumbrian Water 327.5 -2.5 361.5 252.75 Tesco 414.25 0 454.5 377.5
BP 429.75 4 655.5 303 Hammerson 403 10 434.5 336.25 Ocado Group 154.25 6 167 123.5 Thomas Cook Group 178 -8.25 272 171.75
Brit Insurance 1036 4 1045 720 Hargreaves Lansdown 497 4 501.5 265.25 Old Mutual 121.5 3 145.25 97.25 Travis Perkins 819 11 912 664.5
British Airways 263.25 7.75 286 184.25 Hays 108.5 0.25 123.5 88.5 TUI Travel 214.5 3.5 308.5 190
PartyGaming 252 17.5 334.5 206
Tullett Prebon 354 3.75 417.25 262
British Amer.Tob 2348 17.5 2464.5 1905.5 Henderson Group 121 2 151.75 112.75 Pearson 960.5 34.5 1051 846
Tullow Oil 1144 -3 1369 991.5
British Empire Tst 482.25 7.25 495 394 Heritage Oil 376 5 581 296.75 Pennon Group 624.5 -3.5 639 483
UK Commercial Prop 77 2.25 85 72.75
British Land 491.5 10.5 520 418.25 Hikma 776 13 804.5 497.5 Persimmon 345.25 6.75 507.5 336.5
Ultra Electronics 1653 33 1895 1265
Britvic 490.5 1.5 518 373 Hiscox 354.25 7.25 370 300 Petrofac 1450 59 1540 876.5
Unilever 1806 29 2015 1688
Brown (N.) Group 283 5.25 301 206.5 Hochschild Mining 567 41 580.5 234 Petropavlovsk 1088 23 1365 852
United Utilities 589.5 -7 628.5 488.25
BSkyB 721 0.5 729 524.5 Home Retail Group 202 0.25 310.75 201.5 Phoenix Group Hldgs 621 -9 758 557.5
Utd Business Media 634.5 18.5 682.5 409.75
BT Group 169.5 -0.5 174.25 110 Homeserve 439.25 8.75 487.5 322.5 Premier Farnell 292 7 296.75 158.5 Vedanta 2045 59 2934 1839
Bunzl 715.5 14 777 616.5 HSBC Holdings 656.25 8 740.5 596.25 Premier Oil 1880 44 1890 1017 Victrex 1239 43 1338 788
Burberry Group 1032 36 1050 564 Hunting 627.5 35 658.5 439.5 Provident Financial 802 -9.5 974 728.5 Vodafone Group 164.5 3.75 175 129.5
C&W Comms 44.25 -0.25 63.75 44.25 ICAP 499.5 24.5 499.5 294 Prudential 599 31 653 487.5 Weir Group 1797 57 1797 669
C&W Worlwide 63.25 1.5 100 60.5 IG Group 512.5 21.5 553 335.5 PZ Cussons 383 0.5 403 234.75 Wellstream Holdings 742 9 789 436
Cairn Energy 395 8.5 493.25 303.5 Imagination Tech 370 11 441.75 211 QinetiQ Group 115 0.25 167 96.75 WH Smith 480.5 8 537.5 398.25
Caledonia Inv. 1810 30 1827 1511 IMI 884 27.5 884 504.5 Randgold Res 6035 40 6655 4209 Whitbread 1724 35 1797 1266
Capita Group 645.5 -6.5 826 645.5 Imperial Tobacco 1881 -5 2154 1753 RDS ‘A’ 1989 53 2100.5 1624 William Hill 160 4.5 216.5 155.5
Capital & Counties 147 2 157 100 Inchcape 335.5 11 357 237 RDS ‘B’ 1969 61 2064.5 1554 Witan Inv Trust 483.75 11.75 490.5 410
Capital Shop Centre 400.5 9 401.5 301 Informa 410.75 15.5 448 285 Reckitt Benckiser 3408 8 3655 3037 WOLSELEY 1740 24 1817 1166
Carillion 337.25 5 357 273 Inmarsat 650 2 821 606.5 Reed Elsevier 515.5 6.5 563 460.5 WPP Group 728.5 17 755 572.5
Carnival 2674 52 2920 2037 InterContinental Htl 1155 15 1225 855 Regus 76 -0.25 120 66 Xstrata 1367 75 1419 845.75
Catlin Group 345.5 14 393 313 Intermediate Cap.Grp 307 -5.75 351 240.5 Renishaw 1158 33 1235 516.5
Centamin Egypt 181.25 2 197 106.75 International Pers Fin 304.75 5.75 332 183.25 Rentokil Initial 88.25 0.5 138.5 87.75
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Commodities and banks help Wall Street surges

FTSE snap its losing streak as euro panic eases
British manufacturing activity last tations. issues are, there is a growing sense
THELONDON month unexpectedly rose to a 16-year
high.
Though the market moved higher,
some traders were cautious. THENEW YORK this is not a systemic problem that is
going to bring the whole system

REPORT In the US, manufacturing grew for

a 16th month and the private sector
posted its largest jobs gain in three
years.
“It certainly looks like there has
been a base put under the market.
Ultimately I think the stage has been
REPORT down," said Jack Ablin, chief invest-
ment officer at Harris Private Bank in
Chicago. "Beyond their troubles, we're
set for the market to move higher, seeing strong results in other parts of

B T
RITAIN’S leading share index
staged its biggest one day really
in three months yesterday, claw-
ing back some of the losses
made in the past three sessions, with
commodities boosted by upbeat
Chinese data and banks rallying after
being hit by sovereign debt concern.
The rally was also boosted by hopes
the European Central Bank (ECB)
could step up its purchase of euro-
zone government bonds in a bid to
support the borrowing needs of strug-
gling states.
The FTSE 100 index gained 114.23
points, or 2.1 per cent, to 5,642.50,
having ended November back at levels
not seen since mid-September.
“There has been good news consis-
tently across the globe, starting with
the Chinese PMIs. UK manufacturing
data was also much better than
expected and the U.S. figures were
good,” Mike Lenhoff, chief strategist at
Brewin Dolphin, said.
China’s official purchasing man-
agers’ index (PMI) climbed to a seven-
month high in November, while
Commodity stocks were big movers although uncertainty will keep HE Dow and the Standard & the world."
on the index, tracking firmer metal something of a lid on it,” said Yusef Poor’s (S&P) 500 posted their The global economic recovery
and crude CLc1 prices after the Heusen, senior sales trader at IG biggest gains in three months remained sound. US private-sector
Chinese data suggested demand was Index. yesterday as efforts to resolve payrolls achieved their biggest gain in
robust. BAE Systems slipped 1 per cent, the European Union’s debt crisis three years, according to ADP data,
Miners Kazakhmys, Antofagasta knocked by a bearish sector note by helped push the S&P above 1,200, an while global manufacturing picked
and BHP Billiton gained 3.4 to 5.3 per Goldman Sachs, with the broker reit- important technical level that signals up speed, boosted by China and
cent, while Xstrata jumped 5.8 per erating its “conviction sell” on the the potential for the rally to continue. Germany.
cent, also buoyed by a bullish note company. Ex-dividend factors The S&P 500 moved out of its The US-traded-stock of Banco
from Barclays Capital. accounted for the two heaviest FTSE recent trading range as some of the Santander, the Spanish bank in the
Oil stocks BG Group, BP and Royal 100 fallers, Severn Trent and panic of previous days eased. eye of the euro storm, jumped 7.9 per
Dutch Shell rose 0.9 to 2.7 per cent. National Grid, while Land Securities Investors focused on valuations that cent to $10.38. US investors have sold
Banks were also in demand and fea- and Johnson Matthey lost their pay- many analysts say are cheap, but vol- the stock relentlessly in recent weeks,
tured among the top performers after out attractions yesterday. ume was average in a sign fund man- turning it into a proxy for Eurozone
being sold off in previous sessions on agers were not fully participating. risk aversion.
worries about the euro zone debt cri- ANALYSIS l FTSE
5,900
5,642.50 Economically sensitive cyclicals led The Dow Jones industrial average
sis. 01 Dec a broad rally. Aluminum producer gained 249.76 points, or 2.27 per cent,
British banks Royal Bank of Alcoa Inc rose 3.4 per cent to $13.57, to 11,255.78. The S&P 500 rose 25.52
Scotland, Barclays and Lloyds Banking 5,700 while Home Depot Inc, whose for- points, or 2.16 per cent, to 1,206.07.
Group rose 4.6 to 6.1 per cent. tunes are tied to the US consumer, The Nasdaq Composite Index added
Insurer Prudential gained 5.5 per jumped 4.6 per cent to $31.61. 51.20 points, or 2.05 per cent, to
cent after it announced plans to dou- 5,500 Stocks rallied as speculation grew 2,549.43.
ble new business profits in Asia by that the European Central Bank Volume was moderate, with 8.29bn
2013. could step up its purchases of govern- shares traded on the New York Stock
5,300
Among individual risers, Sage ment debt and a US official said Exchange, the American Stock
Group was 5.3 per cent higher after Washington would support boosting Exchange, and the Nasdaq, compared
the British accountancy software 5,100 an EU rescue facility via IMF funds. with an average of 8.48bn so far this
company's results beat full-year expec- 6 Sep 24 Sep 14 Oct 3 Nov 23 Nov "It seems that as bad as Europe's year.
 22 Investment | Listed Products CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010

Spreading risk
is crucial if you
want to build a
stable portfolio
Investors need to remember why they are
investing, be diligent and hedge risk when
using ETFs as a tool, writes Daniel Knowles

O
NE traditional rule of investing is
quite simple. Take your age, subtract
it from 100 and invest that percent-
age of your portfolio in equities and
the rest in bonds. When you are young,
you have more of your money in stocks,
which traditionally perform better over
time. As you get older, you move more into
bonds, thereby escaping volatility and so
insuring yourself against risk when you
actually need the money.
Even after decades of financial innova-
tion, that rule still near enough sticks –
the most important thing is to understand
your personal circumstances and go from
there. But there are some things that
investors should know about, especially
when investing with ETFs.
As Dan Draper, global head of ETFs at
Credit Suisse, explains, constructing a
portfolio is “a little like building a house”.
What makes a house’s design conservative
or architecturally outlandish isn’t so much
the building materials – though those are
of course important. Rather it is how they
are arranged. By diversifying, and so buy-
ing a mix of assets – bonds, shares and
even commodities and more liquid assets
like currencies – investors are spread their
risk between uncorrelated, or inversely
correlated assets. So if one part of the port-
folio loses value, then another part may
strengthen.
IDEAL BUILDING BLOCKS
According to Draper, ETFs help investors
achieve that. “They’re pretty ideal building
blocks”, he says. “The great thing about
ETFs is that even if you’re just investing
your ISA allowance, you can get 6 to 8
funds into that £10,200, so it’s really easy
to diversify”.
How you diversify is, of course, also cru-
cial. Unsurprisingly, most older people will
want to consider holding more fixed
income investments, though with interest
rates as low as they currently are, high div-
idend yield, blue chip equities are also
worth considering. Most younger people,
conversely, might want to consider more
exciting emerging market products so as
to cash in on long run growth.
Commodities like gold are worth holding
in small amounts – about 5 per cent is typ-
ical, according to Draper – as a hedge Constructing an ETF Swenson, the chief finance officer at Yale uncorrelated investments. Investors
against financial uncertainty, but it is portfolio is like put- University, achieved returns of 11.8 per would do well to follow that advice.
important not to buy heavily into fads. ting up a house cent per year from 1999 to 2009, riding
The important thing is that investors out the recession, by doing just that – his ONCE BALANCED, STAY BALANCED
know what their aims are and structure Picture: GETTY model of investment stressed the impor- It is also essential to make sure that your
their portfolios accordingly. David tance of choosing several exciting but investments remain balanced. If the con-
ANALYSIS l David Swenson's Ivy League Portfolio
BUILDING YOUR PORTFOLIO | THE BALANCING POINT
15% FTSE 100 Growth Investors: balanced ETF portfolio could be made up of:
Young investors will probably want riskier, l 50 per cent equities, divided between
15% FTSE 250 more growth oriented assets, because they riskier growth equities and blue chip firms.
can afford to endure wealth losses and ride l 45 per cent fixed income assets.
5% MSCI Emerging Market Equity out the peaks and troughs of the market. A l Five per cent commodities such as gold.
typical growth portfolio might include:
l 70 per cent equities, including some Conservative Investors:
15% FTSE Developed World ex-UK
emerging market or new technology funds. Someone approaching retirement is probably
l 20 per cent fixed income assets such as going to be more concerned by volatility than
20% FTSE EPRA/NAREIT UK Property
corporate or government bonds. growth, and so will want assets that provide
l 10 per cent alternative assets such as a relatively stable income without risking
15% FTSE UK All Stocks Gilt commodities or currencies. capital. Such a portfolio might include:
l 70 per cent fixed income assets.
15% £ Index-Linked Gilts Balanced Investors: l 25 per cent high dividend, stable equities
As investors grow up, they will probably such as blue chips.
want to reduce their risk exposure. A more l 5 per cent alternatives.
Source: Monevator.com

FOOD PRICES
income to rise 24 per cent in 2010 to $77bn,
the fourth largest on record. Farm balance
sheets are strong and low gearing is leaving

PUT FOCUS ON
farmers with ample borrowing capacity. The
strength of the US farm sector is reflected in
booming activity in the agricultural mid-West,

AGRIBUSINESS
with unemployment in states like North
Dakota almost one-third that of national rates.
Farmers in the US, the world’s largest cereal
producer, are expected to respond to higher
prices by boosting production. If similar pat-
DANIEL WILLS terns from 2009-10 are repeated, this could
potentially translate into higher cotton and
SENIOR ANALYST, ETF SECURITIES corn plantings – crops that tend to be relative-
ly input intensive. For example, the nitrogen
application rate for corn is estimated to be

M
OST agriculture prices have seen dou-
ble-digit gains this year, reflecting a
trend towards higher and more volatile
prices since 2003. For agribusiness,
this could lead to stronger returns for agricul-
ture producers and support companies, irre-
spective of near-term gyrations in the business
cycle, if suppliers strive to boost productivity.
Rising prices have significantly boosted farm
income, with the US Department of
Agriculture (USDA) projecting 2010 net farm
over five times that of soybeans according to
the USDA. On the back of these developments,
markets have begun to increase agribusiness
valuations, reflecting higher expected earnings
via both demand volumes and prices. The fer-
tiliser industry is a prominent example since
BNP Billiton’s bid for Potash was recently at
the centre of M&A speculation.
Looking ahead, emerging market imports
will be a key barometer to watch, with China
recently becoming a large net importer of sev-
Agribusiness is a fertile investment
eral agricultural products, mirroring trends in
other basic resources. Food inflation has his-
torically had a weak relationship to the busi-
ness cycle, suggesting that recent Chinese
tightening could have a more modest impact.
Emerging markets will be the chief source of
food demand growth in the future and already
Picture: ALAMY
account for over half of the world’s cereal pro-
duction. Emerging markets face shortages in
infrastructure, training and technologies to
boost food production adequately: improving
productivity via agribusiness investment will
be critical to avoiding global food shortages in
the medium term.
CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010
stituent parts of a portfolio all do very
differently, then a fund can get out of
line very quickly. Imagine, for example,
a fund half in equities and half in bonds.
If equity prices increase by 50 per cent,
and bond prices halve, the portfolio is
now balanced 3:1 in favour of equities.
By rebalancing every year, or even
more frequently if you have invested in
particularly volatile investments, you
effectively take profits in investments
that have done well and shore up those
that have done badly but might still
recover. Over time, that helps you ride
out volatility and also, at least according
to some, increase your performance.
Thanks to their relatively low transac-
tion costs, ETFs make that quite easy to
do – meaning that even small investors
can build and maintain a well balanced
portfolio with an appropriate level of
risk.
Investors should also remember to
consider all of their assets, including
very illiquid ones like houses and life
insurance, when building a portfolio.
ETFs are best considered as a way to plug
holes in a broader life investment plan.
Thanks to their liquidity and the range
of markets they offer access to, they can
be very useful.
Effectively planning for retirement is
more than just selling stocks and buy-
ing bonds. But with financial markets
exceptionally volatile at the moment,
having a well balanced and properly
managed portfolio is vital.
LISTED PRODUCT NEWS
BY JESSICA MEAD
New products on the Spanish stock exchange
DB X-TRACKERS LISTS MORE ETFS IN SPAIN
Deutsche Bank’s exchange-traded funds
(ETF) arm db x-trackers yesterday launched
its second set of ETFs on the Spanish stock
market. Db x-trackers yesterday announced
10 more ETFs listed on the Bolsa de Madrid,
which provide exposure to developed and
emerging market equities, to two short
indices, and also to a private equity index.
The launch follows db x-trackers’ debut on
the Spanish stock market on 25 November,
making it now the second biggest provider
in Spain in terms of numbers of products
Picture: REUTERS listed.
Investment | Listed Products
Carphone Warehouse
is on the way up
Picture: REUTERS
BARCLAYS UNVEILS ETF-LINKED PRODUCT
Barclays Wealth this week issued its 13th
Emerging Markets Optimiser (CMO) struc-
tured product which is linked to the iShares
MSCI Emerging Market Index fund. This is an
ETF providing exposure to 21 emerging mar-
kets with heavy weighting towards the
BRICs. The EMO smoothes returns by adjust-
ing its exposure to the index fund on a daily
basis. This six-year investment offers full
repayment of capital at maturity and
investors receive 72.5 per cent of the invest-
ment return produced from this strategy. The
minimum investment is £5,100.
23
THE
TIPSTER
CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR
CARPHONE WAREHOUSE
F
EW retail stocks have managed to see
their share price recover to the halcy-
on days of 2007, but Carphone
Warehouse has recently achieved that
feat with the stock now eyeing the 400p
level. Clearly the Christmas season has the
potential to bring further cheer for the
stock. Furthermore, given the ongoing tide
of innovation in mobile communication as
well as the company’s decision to start pay-
ing a dividend, this stock could remain a
popular choice for some time yet. The cur-
rent IG Index price is 388.5p-391p
With continuing speculation in the mar-
kets about the safety of European sover-
eign debt, gold could once again be viewed
by the markets as a safe haven. With the
precious metal making a steady charge
back up towards the $1,400 level, a breach
above here could well lead to an extended
move higher. WorldSpreads offers a spread
on the rolling spot price of $1,391.25-
$1,391.75.
The tide seems to be turning for travel
firm Thomas Cook, after its shares suf-
fered in late September from a profit warn-
ing. Yesterday it released its preliminary
2010 results statement, revealing a lower-
than-expected 6 per cent fall in adjusted
underlying operating profits. The deal with
Russia's VAO Intourist, concluded on 25
November, adds a new dimension to the
group and analysts says it fully exposes
Thomas Cook to immense emerging mar-
kets growth potential. Spreadex offers a
December spread of 176.5p-178.3p
Broadband satellite operator Avanti
Communications yesterday reported bet-
ter-than-expected results and already has a
strong balance sheet. The Aim-listed start-
up company already has one satellite in
orbit and a second in the pipeline. Analysts
at Galvan Research say that with the first
satellite successfully launched, the compa-
ny will be viewed by analyst and the mar-
kets alike as a maturing satellite
communications provider. “This alone will
prompt a near-term re-rating of the stock
and will in our view propel the share price
to new highs long before HYLAS 2 [the
second satellite] reaches the launchpad,”
Galvan says. Spreadex quotes a rolling
spread of 719.1p-730.4p.
Markets went a little crazy yesterday
afternoon after the news came through
that the US said that it was prepared to
make additional contributions to support
European bailouts. Stocks and commodities
rallied and the dollar got smashed. Yet in
spite of this shoot higher, sterling-dollar
still failed to take out the important
$1.5640 level for the second time in a day.
Traders should look to sell further rallies in
the $1.5620-$1.5640 area. Spread Co
offers a spread on sterling-dollar of
$1.5612-$1.5614.
Jessica Mead
INSURERS LEAD SECTOR NET OUTFLOWS
According to BlackRock data, in the week to
26 November STOXX Europe 600 sector
ETFs saw $65.6m of net outflows, trimming
the year-to-date net inflows to $476.7m. The
sectors which saw the largest ETF net out-
flows last week were in insurance ($123.7m)
and utilities ($31.7m). In contrast, basic
resources ETFs experienced net inflows of
$109m. Year-to-date, bank sector ETFs have
seen the largest net inflows with $222.2m,
followed by basic resources with $85.8m.
The food and beverage sector has had the
largest net outflows of $162.6m.
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Five ways to cut
costs, whatever
your business
If you want to make yourself indispensable
then saving money is a pretty good start,
especially right now. By Jeremy Hazlehurst
1. ASK “WHY?”
If you think that something is wasteful,
don’t accept that it is “just the way we do
it here”. Bad habits can become
engrained. In her book 100 Great Cost-
Cutting Ideas, Anne Hawkins tells the
story of a technology manufacturer which
had been including needless technical
information with all its products for 15
years, at massive cost. The best way to spot
these sorts of inefficiencies is to bring in
somebody from another part of the organ-
isation to look at processes. They are more
likely to ask the fundamental question:
“Why do we do this?”
2. ASK FOR CRITICISM
Make it a key part of people’s jobs to sug-
gest money-saving improvements. Many
people feel it isn’t their place to tell man-
agement that they are wasting money.
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respectful to criticise. These are corrosive
ideas that you have to change. Reiterate to
staff that you are all in business together –
lower costs and higher profits mean more
money for everybody. Explain that man-
agers can’t make savings on their own, Packaging can be
but that they need the input of the people a waste of money
on the ground, and communicate that
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3. DITCH UNLOVED EXTRAS
It can be tempting to over-deliver on
things like pretty packaging, but if cus-
tomers aren’t using some parts of your
service, then get rid of them. “Don’t do
things that your customer doesn’t want
and therefore isn’t paying for,” says
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This is the best way to work out what
they do and don’t value.
4. MANAGE EXPECTATIONS
Not all your cost-cutting tactics will have
immediate effects, so make sure every-
body knows that some of your changes
will only see returns in the long-term.
People get upset if they see big changes
but few immediate bottom-line results,
says Hawkins. Some of the changes will
be “enablers”, which create opportuni-
ties. The cost-savings will only come
about if the opportunities are seized.
A disappointing bonus
should be a call to action
OCTAVIUS BLACK
H
OW did you feel when Santa
failed to come for the first time?
Of course, you know that Father
Christmas is a fiction; you are
even warned that he isn’t coming this
year. But the reality that he has gone for-
ever only really hits home when you
wake up on Christmas morning and
find there’s nothing at the end of your
bed.
Getting a lousy bonus can arouse sim-
ilar feelings. The good news is that while
we can’t bring the reindeer back down
the chimney, there’s plenty we can do to
get over an unexpectedly low bonus.
Here is a plan for how to cope with a dis-
appointing compensation round.
As a start, get the facts. Seventy-five
per cent of us think we’re above aver-
age (and 90 cent of us think we’re
above average drivers). Find out how
your performance actually compared
Professional with your peer group. Maybe you were
development fairly rewarded for what you delivered.
Sort your personal finances. Money
CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010
Make sure people understand that, and
talk about timescales and follow-on
actions from the start.
5. WATCH YOUR MAVERICKS
Every organisation has people who break
the rules and appear to get results, but
you need to check if these are results you
want. They might make deals from per-
sonal contacts, but does chasing the
invoices eat into your costs? Do they sell
“solutions” that you can’t deliver? And
brilliant new product ideas might be eye-
catching, but does the market want
them? Weight up the benefits mavericks
bring against the costs they incur.
worries swiftly infect every part of our
life. If you’d already spent assuming a
goings, say, with more modest
Christmas presents or a staycation in
Cornwall instead of a fancy fortnight in
the Bahamas. Learn from Ireland’s mis-
takes.
Check the environment. If the reason
for your low bonus is the performance
of the whole organisation or depart-
ment, then assess the chances that this
will be any different next year. If the
leadership has a credible plan to turn
things around, then stick with them. If
they’re relying on a change in the mar-
kets or other circumstances beyond
their control, it may be time to look else-
where.
Find out what will secure a bigger
bonus next year. Ask your manager for
objective measures that you will need to
deliver against and subjective advice on
how to manage your reputation along
the way. If their answers aren’t convinc-
ing, then seek out people who’ve done
well and uncover what they did.
Get going. The journey to a stellar
bonus next year has already started.
Focus on three things: the skills you
need to acquire to raise your underlying
contribution, the inputs that are most
likely to affect the outcome, and the way
you conduct yourself.
Is this year’s bonus a blip or a trend?
You decide.
Octavius Black is CEO, of The Mind Gym
www.themindgym.com
CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010
THESE THINGS I KNOW |
TIPS FOR GETTING ON IN THE CITY
First develop a
skill, and then
add knowledge
NATHAN BROWN
FOUNDER OF LUXURY SHOE BRAND
LODGER
REMAIN OPEN TO OPPORTUNITIES.
Some of the best things that have
happened to me have come from
oblique angles. Opportunities come
out of nowhere and you have to be
prepared to open yourself up to them
and investigate.
EXPLORE POTENTIAL LEADS quickly
and ruthlessly and shut down any-
thing that doesn’t have potential.
Otherwise it’s a distraction. There are
lots of things that merit a quick look,
but if you are constantly searching
for new possibilities, you’ll never get
anything done.
WORK HARD. Most people are lazy.
Most don’t want to put in the last two
hours on a project, or won’t wake up
30 minutes earlier to do emails or
prepare for a meeting. I’m not a
workaholic, but my success has come
from a willingness to do the things
that many others won’t.
BOOK OF THE MONTH
The Wisdom of Bees
By Michael O’Malley
£9.99
Portfolio Penguin
DID you know that Sherlock
Holmes retired to keep bees?
Apparently he said that a hive
“provides as much incident as
can be found on the streets of
London.” And did you know
that bees are the only invertebrates
with symbolic language? Or that they
always keep their hives at exactly 39
degrees centigrade?
These are among the snippets of
information that keep you racing
through this little book by a social psy-
chologist, management consultant and
bee-keeper, which ingeniously uses the
lives of bees and the organisation of the
hive to teach 25 business lessons. I’m
tempted to call it a mini M-Bee-A.
So we learn that bees are long-ter-
mist, just like 3M or Procter & Gamble,
and that bees pace themselves and
always work for the success of the
whole hive – which teaches us that you
shouldn’t run your staff into the ground.
And that bees make sure they have
diversity in the hive, just like some cre-
ative companies do.
Bees know when to protect their
resources, and when to go out looking
for new sources of food – just like clever
businesses. Bees don’t rush workers out
City Focus | Careers 25
English shoe-makers
are talented, but often
can’t sell themselves
Picture: GETTY
COMBINE DEEP SKILLS AND WIDE
KNOWLEDGE. They say that you have
to paint a thousand pictures before
you can produce your first master-
piece and it’s true; until you have
made 30 deals and watched them
progress for five years, then you don’t
know what can happen.
You have to work hard to develop
deep skills, but then marry them
with broad experience. English shoe-
makers are as skilled as you can get,
but they would have more success if
they learned about marketing and
branding. For example, I always keep
up to date with the technology indus-
try, because it is so fast-moving and
disruptive. You can’t be an expert in
everything, of course, but if you have
a wide-ranging curiosity you can add
new lessons to your core skills.
I HATE “ALMOST”. In business, and
certainly in the world of fashion and
luxury it’s the final 1 per cent that
makes all the difference. At Lodger
we made a classic wing-tip Chelsea
boot, and it took us a year to get it
right. The first one we did was good,
but the eighth was perfect.
In order to stand out in a competitive
marketplace you have to be 100 per
cent all the time. I hate things that
are almost right.
It infuriates me to see something that
is almost beautifully done, but
stopped short. Either do it right, or
don’t do it at all.
into the field until they are ready;
if they do, then the colony will
die off. The parallel with a busi-
ness that trains people too quick-
ly is obvious. Also, hives are
meritocracies which jettison
underperformers.
ADVANCE YOUR CAREER
Of course, the parallels are not
precise. Bees delegate very effec-
tively and the queen communi- KNOWLEDGE FOR TODAY’S BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
cates using an informational
cascade that, we are told, is the envy of
every CEO. As she does it via the secre-
tions of pheromones from her mandibu- The Certificate in Finance, Accounting and Business (CFAB) will
lar glands, however, it is not exactly
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Obviously, not all bee behaviour is will provide you with the practical knowledge and essential tools
translatable into a neat little business in business, finance and accounting that can be used in any
lesson. When 18th century scientists
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insisted that she was gentle, merciful fixed exam dates allow you to fit CFAB around your existing
and chaste, the ideal female qualities of
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she is wildly promiscuous and will sting
anybody who displeases her. What does Find out more about CFAB today.
that say about business? And let’s not
even mention drones.
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A bee-auty.
Jeremy Hazlehurst
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| Food and Drink
Stars in their pies:
mincemeat magic
Timothy Barber sorts the great
from the good in our annual
hunt for the best festive pastries
W
HILE turkey and Christmas pud-
ding are held back for the meal
on the big day, mince pies are
the real staple of the festive sea-
son. People who wouldn’t normally dream
of a mid-afternoon snack will suddenly
find themselves gobbling down piles of
pastry and fruity mincemeat, while every
cocktail party and seasonal bash is over-
flowing with them. But all mince pies are
not created equal – far from it. So we’ve
risked our waistlines to pick through some
of the best, and offer a little guidance for
those hosting Christmas parties, or just
sneaking in a cheeky pie before bed.
LAVERSTOKE PARK FARM, £10.50
hhiii
Large, crusty and uneven, Laverstoke’s
Luxurious mince pies look terrifically
enticing – until you find out that most of
the pie is pastry. As you’d expect from
these specialists in organic produce, the
mincemeat is pretty good – fruity, boozy,
not too sweet. But all we’re really left
with is the taste of flour from the pastry
overload – and they’re rather pricey too.
www.laverstokepark.co.uk
SELFRIDGES, £5.99
hhhii
These look a little too uniform for our
liking, though the softish pastry has a
fine buttery taste and melty texture.
Here’s the problem though: the pie actu-
ally sags in the middle due to a lack of
filling – we reckon barely a teaspoonful.
Shame, because it’s good, sweet mince-
meat, and the overall taste is superb – a
hit of fruit and spice with a hint of deca-
dence. If only the mincemeat portions
were that bit more decadent too.
www.selfridges.co.uk
WHOLE FOODS, £6.99
hhhhi
We tried two versions, with wholemeal
pastry and with white pastry – and both
were superb. The pies are topped off with
a pastry star that just about sits over the
huge scoops of mincemeat. And boy,
what mincemeat – chunky, wholesome,
firm, and free of the sickly sweetening
OUT OF OFFICE
TIMOTHY BARBER
ROMEO & JULIET AT THE ROUNDHOUSE
After its highly acclaimed 2008 season,
the RSC is returning to Camden’s
Roundhouse with a ten-week season of eight
productions. Kicking things off is Romeo &
Juliet (right, 30 Nov-01 Jan), directed by the
prolific and brilliant Rupert Goold. Other pro-
ductions to come include The Winter’s Tale,
Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet
and King Lear, each of which will be making
the most of the Roundhouse’s unique environ-
ment. Until 5 Feb, Roundhouse, Chalk Farm
Road, NW1 8EH. Tickets £10-£40 from
www.roundhouse.org.uk
CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010
that blights some other mince pies.
These felt authentic and tasted delicious,
the wholemeal pastry in particular
adding a gutsy twist.
www.wholefoodsmarket.com
FORTNUM & MASON, £9.50
hhhhi
Fortnum’s St Clement’s pies are delicious –
big, crumbly pies brushed with just the
right dusting of sugar, while a citrusy sur-
prise lurks inside, where an abundance of
orange and lemon peel adding aromatic
loveliness. Classy.
www.fortnumandmason.com
MARKS & SPENCER, £2.99
hhhhh
M&S has come up trumps with its top
tier Collection mince pies. The best thing
of all is the sheer boozy brilliance of the
mincemeat, while the glazed, rustic pas-
try is crispy and flavoursome. There’s
also a collection of 12 mini mince pies in
different styles (£4.99), in which the use
of pecan nuts as a topping for four of
them is sheer genius.
www.marksandspencer.com
WAITROSE, £1.29
hhiii
We expected Waitrose’s offerings to be a
cut above those from other supermar-
kets, but they weren’t. They’re a gener-
ous size and look nice, but all we could
really taste from the gloopy mincemeat
was sugar. Unexceptional in the
extreme.
www.waitrose.co.uk
DUCHY ORIGINALS FROM WAITROSE, £3.99
hhhhi
The pastry, though delicious, is very filling
– it’s more like shortbread than pastry.
There was a good amount of mincemeat
inside, and while it had plenty of fruit and
wasn’t too viscous like some of the others,
it was bland. A rather polite mince pie.
www.waitrose.co.uk
ABEL & COLE, £4.49
hhhhi
It’s always good to see a mince pie that rises
in the middle because it’s got so much
mincemeat packed into it, and the mince-
meat in A&C’s Luxury pies doesn’t disap-
point: it’s chunky, full of apple and raisins,
and substantial. These feel handmade and
artisanal, and are very satisfying.
www.abelandcole.co.uk
POP-UP: PETER JONES FOR MEN
Sloane Square department store Peter Jones
has a solution for men who are given cold
shivers by the very thought of Christmas
shopping. It has set up a special room with
an edited selection of the best Christmas
gifts, and personal shoppers will be on hand
to give one-on-one guidance to chaps need-
ing a bit of present-buying inspiration.
There’s also a chill out zone for shoppers to
relax in, with leather sofas, table football and
pool, Wii consoles and video games. Peter
Jones, Sloane Square, SW1W 8EL.
www.peterjones.co.uk
CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010
2010’s Christmas book round-up
It was a good year for books. Here’s a
guide to the best presents among them
BUSINESS AND
ECONOMICS
CRISIS ECONOMICS
BY NOURIEL ROUBINI WITH
STEPEHN MIHM
Pengiuin, £25
More than just another me-too
account of the crisis, Nouriel Roubini
– often called Dr Doom for his
Cassandra-like prophecies – gives a
compelling account of the 2008 melt-
down. He provides the lay reader with
succinct and clearly written explana-
tions of the causes and consequences
of the financial crash.
MACROWIKINOMICS: REBOOTING
BUSINESS AND THE WORLD
BY DON TAPSTER AND
ANTHONY WILLIAMS
Atlantic Books, £19.99
The sequel to Wikinomics, which
focused on how the internet is chang-
ing the way businesses think,
Macrowikinomics goes one step fur-
ther than the original. This is an
insightful analysis into how technolo-
gy and the internet are shaping think-
ing and development in areas such as
government, media, education and
healthcare.
THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE
DOOMSDAY MACHINE
BY MICHAEL LEWIS
Allen Lane, £25
A riveting and accessible account of
the sub-prime mortgage disaster from
the author of Liar’s Poker. Lewis focus-
es on the characters the heart of the
crisis from those who saw it coming
CHILDREN
SHADOW
BY MICHAEL MORPUGO
Harper Collins, £12.99
For ages nine and up. The author of
War Horse offers us another novel
about war and the loyalty of ani-
mals. Aman, an Afghani boy trying
to flee his war-torn country, finds a
dog outside the caves where he lives.
The dog will not leave his side, and
the fates of boy and dog are linked.
THE ICE BEAR
BY JACKIE MORRIS
Frances Lincoln, £11.99
For ages four to seven. The Ice Bear is
filled with rich illustrations of the
Arctic and its inhabitants. Set when
people and animals coexisted in har-
mony, a bear-child is raised by a
hunter and his wife. When the child
is taken back to the bears, however,
the hunter is determined to kill the
creature that has taken his child.
SHARE!
BY ANTHEA SIMMONS AND GEORGIE
BIRKETT
to those who were merrily packaging
up mortgages. It’s so entertaining you
even start to enjoy and understand
complex derivatives.
A JOURNEY
BY TONY BLAIR
Hutchinson, £25
The former PM’s autobiography is
chatty, fluent and totally absorbing.
Blair gives an insight into his time in
power, from the success of the Good
Friday agreement to the decision to
invade Iraq. He also gives (slightly
too?) vivid a glimpse into his personal
life.
HIGH FINANCIER: THE LIVES AND
TIME OF SIEGMUND WARBURG
BY NIALL FERGUSON
Allen Lane, £30
Niall Ferguson’s subject is the idiosyn-
cratic refugee from Hitler’s Germany
who rose to become one of the domi-
nant post-war figures in the City of
London. Meticulously researched, he
captures the conservative methods of
Warburg’s bank – a far cry from
boom-time Wall Street.
ALCHEMISTS OF LOSS
BY KEVIN DOWD AND MARTIN
HUTCHINSON
John Wiley & Sons, £16.99
Be afraid. This study of the financial
crash concludes that its causes have
not been dealt with and that London
risks becoming “an excellent market
for rottweilers, wire mesh and tat-
tooed thugs”. Blaming both politi-
cians and modern finance, it is a
fascinating, troubling read.
Andersen, £10.99
For ages zero to five. Share! is an
endearing picture book for the new
reader. It starts when an older sis-
ter tries to share her toys with her
crying baby brother. Wrecked puz-
zles and wet blankets follow, but in
the end she learns that sharing can
be fun.
JEREMIAH JELLYFISH FLIES HIGH
BY JOHN FARDELL
Andersen, £10.99
For ages seven and up. Jeremiah
Jellyfish is bored of his uneventful
underwater existence. He looks for
adventure and meets a stressed-out
businessman. They switch lives and
Jeremiah becomes an executive
heading a rocket plane company. An
absolutely lovely little book.
EINSTEIN’S UNDERPANTS – AND
HOW THEY SAVED THE WORLD BY
BY ANTHONY MCGOWAN
Yearling, £5.99
For ages nine and up. In this quirky
adventure, math geek Alexander
takes on an imminent invasion from
outer space. What’s his secret
weapon? Lots of help from the old
underpants of a scientific genius,
of course!
BILLIONAIRE BOY
BY DAVID WALLIAMS
Harper Collins, £12.99
FICTION
THE FINKLER QUESTION
BY HOWARD JACOBSON
Bloomsbury, £18.99
Britain’s answer to Phillip Roth, this
touching, clever and deeply amusing
look at Jews (and non-Jews) from
Howard Jacobson won this year’s
Man Booker Prize. Certainly one of
the year’s must-reads – and a good
one for the fireside (or beach) too.
FREEDOM
BY JONATHAN FRANZEN
Fourth Estate, £20
It took him nine years to produce,
but Jonathan Frazen’s Freedom was
worth the wait. As in The
Corrections, Franzen’s subject is the
American middle class, and its awk-
wardness, insecurity and hypocrisy.
Expertly written, Freedom exposes
the difficulties of the pursuit of hap-
piness.
SOLAR
BY IAN MCEWAN
Jonathan Cape, £18.99
Daniel Beard, an over-the-hill physi-
cist that once won the Nobel Prize,
tries to regain professional glory
with a new way to create solar ener-
gy – but makes some big mistakes
along the way. He is compelling and
repellent in equal measure, and cer-
tainly one of McEwan’s best narra-
tors to date.
NON-FICTION
NOMA: TIME AND PLACE IN
NORDIC CUISINE
BY RENE REDZEPI
Phaidon, £35
Rene Redzepi has been credited
with re-inventing Nordic cuisine.
His Copenhagen restaurant, Noma,
Lifestyle | Books
For ages nine and up. Joe is fabu-
lously wealthy – he’s billionaire boy,
after all. He’s got his own bowling
alley, his own cinema, even his own
orangutan. But he hasn’t got any
friends. What happens when some-
one comes along who likes Joe for
Joe? Not a bad effort at all by
Walliams, clearly a man of many
talents.
THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF
JACOB DE ZOET
BY DAVID MITCHELL
Sceptre, £18.99
The dazzlingly talented David
Mitchell (of Cloud Atlas glory), took
six years to write this novel. Set in
18th-century Japan, it is a meticu-
lous study of East meets West with
razor-sharp imagery. It’s a work of
art as much as of fictional skill.
Fantastic for history and fiction
buffs – and the pretty cover doesn’t
hurt.
THE PASSAGE
BY JUSTIN CRONIN
Orion, £20
Touted as one of the best supernatu-
ral thrillers ever written, this
scrupulously realised plot spans
more than a half century, as the
earth is ravaged by an outbreak of a
virus that turns humans into blood-
suckers. Cronin one the
PEN/Hemingway prize for a previous
novel: so expect a cut above.
FULL DARK, NO STARS
BY STEPHEN KING
Hodder, £18.99
A collection of novellas from the
master of horror, this is King flexing
his muscles with this traditionally
unpopular form. Think murders in
the American mid-west and rats
crawling out of bodies. A gleeful
compilation of the criminal and the
sordid – fans won’t be disappointed
even if it’s not his best work to date.
was recognized as the best in the
world by the San Pellegrino World's
50 Best Restaurant awards in 2010.
Here’s his recipe book.
DAN DARE – THE BIOGRAPHY
BY DANIEL TATARSKY
£14.99, Orion
A colourful, beautifully researched
biography of the dashing “pilot of the
27
future” who riveted readers of the
Eagle comic between the 50s and the
80s. Rediscovering the world of the
square-jawed English hero – and his
arch enemy, the Mekon – will be a joy
for any chap over 35.
LIFE
BY KEITH RICHARDS
Weidenfeld & Nicolson £20
Fathers, sons and everyone in
between (including hard-rocking
mums) have helped make this a
number one. It’s full of unedited-
feeling cascades of “life” from
Richards’ post-war youth, Rolling
Stones madness and plenty of asides
about his big lost love: Mick Jagger.
REINVENTING FOOD – FERRAN
ADRIÀ: THE MAN WHO CHANGED
THE WAY WE EAT
BY COLMAN ANDREWS
Phaidon, £19.95
This autobiography of the king of
molecular gastronomy is one of the
must-have foodie tomes of the year. If
Rene Redzepi has redefined
Scandinavian food, Adria has rede-
fined food. This would make a good
companion to the cookbook, which
came out two years ago.
COCO CHANEL: THE LEGEND AND
THE LIFE
BY JUSTINE PICARDIE
Harper Collins, £25
It’s been a good couple of years for
Coco Chanel, founder of the epony-
mous fashion house. Two major
films have been made about her –
Coco Before Chanel and Coco Chanel
and Igor Stravinsky – but for those
who prefer a literary experience,
Picardie’s book is a highly
acclaimed, intelligent account. It’s
equally for fashionistas and for
those interested in the rich history
and friendships of the 1920s French
intelligentsia.
DON’T VOTE! IT JUST ENCOURAGES
THE BASTARDS
BY P.J. O’ROURKE
Grove Press, £16.99
PJ O’Rourke attacks the whole grub-
by business of politics in his latest
book. Arguing that it is time to put
America’s big, fat political ass on a
diet, O’Rourke combines satire with
a larger message about the dangers
of ceding personal responsibility to
the state.
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Birmingham boss
Alex McLeish (inset)
hopes last night’s
violence will not
have a negative
impact on
England’s 2018
World Cup bid

Picture: PA/
ACTION IMAGES

Riots mar Blues cup win

With Prince William and Prime Minister but was confident the events of last night
BIRMINGHAM 2 David Cameron over in Zurich attempting one
final push to convince Fifa’s ExCo members
would not impact on the World Cup ballot
which takes place this afternoon.
that England’s 2018 World Cup bid would offer He said: “I don’t think that will affect the
ASTON VILLA 1 a fan-friendly experience, the timing of the
hundreds of fans who confronted riot police at
World Cup bid. Let’s hope England get it
because they deserve it, [but] it doesn’t look
the final whistle could not have been worse. good. It takes us back to the dark ages.”
▲

FOOTBALL The FA were swift in releasing a statement The game itself was a lively affair with
BY JAMES GOLDMAN last night which read: “The FA will fully investi- Birmingham taking the lead through a
gate the matter in conjunction with the appro- Sebastien Larsson penalty, which was can-
BIRMINGHAM are through to the Carling Cup priate authorities. The FA abhors acts of violent celled out on the half hour by Gabriel
semi-final after edging out local rivals Aston behaviour.” Agbonlahor. The match was drifting towards
Villa at St Andrews, but victory was marred by Birmingham manager Alex McLeish admit- extra-time, but Nicola Zigic’s scrappy 84th
scenes of fan violence which are set to be inves- ted that the disgraceful scenes threatened to minute effort booked the Blues a place in their
tigated by the Football Association. drag English football “back to the dark ages” first league cup semi-final for nine years.

CRICKET TRADER OLLIE DREW HIGHLIGHTS THE BEST BETS AHEAD OF THE ASHES
SECOND TEST

Pietersen ready for return to form

A
NDREW STRAUSS and but it could be better to wait the first few days, there’s better selling at 480.
Ricky Ponting have had until after the first day’s play, value in Blue Square’s 4/1 for KP In his final Ashes warm-up
barely enough time for assuming plenty of runs have to score a first innings century. for Western Australia he was
the amazing turn- been scored, to do so. Sporting Index have updated dismissed for a golden duck
around of the drawn first Test Kevin Pietersen has looked their series player spread mar- and three, while he also scored
to sink in before the second Test down in the dumps for a pro- kets after the Brisbane Test and, ducks in the 2009 Ashes at
starts in Adelaide tonight. longed period, but with an unsurprisingly after his 195, Edgbaston and the Oval.
The Adelaide Oval has a repu- opening score of 43 last week Mike Hussey’s runs quote has
tation as a batsman’s pitch but
we should also expect a conclu-
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He is due a sizeable score and
shot up to 480-500.
I am convinced that ‘Mr
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England kicked them in the teeth

Spin hero Phil Tufnell assesses all facets of the Ashes effort ahead of the second Test

T
HE first punches have been
thrown and, as England pre-
pare to start the second Ashes
Test tonight, it is Australia who
are reeling from some body blows to
their confidence.
The Aussies are used to starting
with a win and got themselves in a
great position at the Gabba. England
will have been disappointed not to be
batting on the second day and were,
frankly, staring down the barrel.
But the way they came back, led by
Alastair Cook, was sensational. For
Australia it was a massive kick in the
teeth; for England, it was an outcome
that will galvanise the dressing room.
It confirms what they believed:
that they can do this. They now know
that if they find themselves in trou-
ble they are capable of getting 500-1
to dig their way out of it again.
Australia have major worries in
their attack, which proved toothless
in the second innings. They could
make changes but just don’t have
bowlers who will scare England.
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l CAPTAINCY l PLAYING IN AUSTRALIA l BIG-GAME PERFORMANCE THE ALL-ROUNDER |

Andrew Strauss did a reasonable
job in the first Test. He made the
right calls, but sometimes you
come up against a great
partnership, as he did in Hussey and
Haddin. Perhaps he could have tried
ENGLAND
The very fact that England
managed to turn a losing position
8/10 into a very creditable draw shows
how well they have adapted to
both conditions and a hostile
environment. After the way the first
CONDITIONS, STATS AND BANTER
The only things England could
improve on in the second Test are
WEATHER FORECAST
9/10 being more ruthless when we 9/10
start to make a dent in their order,
and batting better in their own first
HIGH 250
LOW
innings. As it was, they stepped up to
170

something funkier with his fielding positions
after England’s attack had failed to dislodge
them for a while, but he didn’t do much
wrong. I might have left the Aussies in the
field for another half hour, but he got the
timing of the declaration about right.
day went they did so well to not let it cost
them, because it was looking precarious. The
second Test will be completey different.
Adelaide might spin and won’t be as flat and
hard a wicket as Brisbane, so an extra
bowler is an option.
the plate in the most impressive manner pos-
sible, refusing to let their heads drop or
become dispirited. Now all the England play-
ers have got into the Ashes their perform-
ances are likely to be even more
accomplished.
Sunny intervals
PITCH
Pity the bowlers. After toiling in
Brisbane, Adelaide looks likely to
live up to its reputation as being a
batsman’s paradise.

l BOWLING STATS OF THE DAY

It’s a tough ask to dig out a bowler
England friendly Adelaide related stat, but
should be we’ve found something that might
cheered
they got
8/10 give Graeme Swann some cheer.
There have been 13 five-wicket
themselves hauls in the last decade and over
in a good half of them have gone to spinners.
position in the first Shane Warne, a freak of nature
innings, with Australia admittedly, took 30 wickets in the
at around 150-5 last five years here. Moreover,
before Mike Hussey despite an average first innings
and Brad Haddin’s score of 416 over the last 10 Tests,
heroic stand. there have only been two draws.
l BATTING Steven Finn
showed his FIGHTING TALK
England made a nervous
start in Brisbane, did not
10/10 promise with six
wickets, while the
“What should a groundsman make
sure he does two days out from a
bat well, with Andrew other guys started Test match? Cover the nets when it
Strauss going third ball, and to get going. The rains maybe? Pathetic.” Kevin
were all out far quicker than they’d have only slight negative Pietersen, we think, isn’t too happy
expected in the first innings. But they was Graeme Swann, with the Adelaide ground staff. We
learned from their mistakes and responded who was quieter than assume nobody under the age of
in superb fashion in the second innings. we expected, but he’ll 10 reads these pages, so we’ve
Strauss recovered brilliantly and was come on in Adelaide. removed the 13 exclamation marks
decisive and committed and Trott was England could play KP used for extra emphasis.
magnificent, but the man who stood out another bowler – Tim
was Alastair Cook (right). He’d had lots of Bresnan or another “He told me you had to bite on a
criticism and the Aussies had targeted him spinner in Monty towel when you put it on because
as a weak link, but he slammed the door on Panesar for Paul it was agony.” Stuart Broad says
them. He had to be defiant and resilient Collingwood – but I Ian Botham’s cure for blisters –
and he did it in spades: his 235 not out was think they’ll stick with surgical spirit if you’re interested –
just what was needed. a successful formula. smarts just a tad.
 Sport
32
Star trio turn
England 2018
bid around as
D-Day arrives
▲
FOOTBALL
BY FRANK DALLERES
ENGLAND’S hopes of winning today’s
vote to host the 2018 World Cup
surged last night after frantic
schmoozing and some late hiccups
from rival bidders appeared to turn
the tide in their favour.
A stellar cast of ambassadors
including former England captain
David Beckham, Prince William and
Prime Minister David Cameron led an
impressive charm offensive ahead of
today’s secret ballot of Fifa’s executive
committee (ExCo).
And while England parachuted in
its big hitters, key rivals Russia and
Spain/Portugal suffered from the
damaging withdrawals of high-pro-
file frontmen Vladimir Putin and
Cristiano Ronaldo.
Bookies slashed England’s odds
amid comparisons with London’s dra-
matic victory in the battle to host the
2012 Olympics, when Beckham and
Lord Coe engineered a late swing in
opinion in Singapore in 2005.
Beckham said: “It adds a hell of a
weight to our bid to have the Prime
Minister and the future King of
England on our side lobbying. I saw
that in Singapore, how having Tony
Blair there supporting the bid was a
huge thing. It’s the same here.”
The midfielder was at his diplomat-
Trott: We’re not haunted by
past Adelaide experiences
▲
CRICKET
BY JAMES GOLDMAN
ENGLAND batsman Jonathan Trott is
adamant Andrew Strauss’s side are
made of stronger stuff than the one
that crumbled to an Ashes series defin-
ing defeat in Adelaide four years ago.
From a position of total comfort on
the final afternoon, England col-
lapsed to 129 all out inside a single
session, Australia picked off the 168
runs required in just 32 overs to claim
a miraculous win and take an all but
unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.
Four of England’s top five from
ic best, playing down the furore
caused by Panorama’s allegations of
corruption among ExCo members
earlier this week, insisting: “We can
trust every one of them.”
Beckham met several ExCo mem-
bers in an attempt to win over float-
ing voters, as did Prince William, who
rose at 7am for breakfast with
Paraguayan ExCo member Nicolas
Leoz – one of those accused by the
BBC programme.
Cameron was similarly busy woo-
ing the 22 men who will take part in
this afternoon’s vote and flew back to
Switzerland last night to continue his
efforts, having returned home for
Prime Minister’s Questions.
The day did, however, end on a sour
note with crowd violence at the
Carling Cup quarter-final between
Birmingham and Aston Villa poten-
tially underminding England’s claim
to be offering a “fan-friendly” experi-
ence.
Russian premier Vladimir Putin
pulled out of a planned trip to the
gathering in Zurich, where he had
been expected to present his coun-
try’s case in today’s final pitches.
If that was not enough, Putin
risked further damage to Russia’s oth-
erwise fancied proposal by releasing a
bizarre statement in which he cried
foul play, saying ExCo members had
been “smeared”.
that horror show – Trott is the only
newcomer – will return to the scene
of the crime when play gets under-
way in the second Test today, but the
Warwickshire batsman, who now has
two centuries from two Tests against
Australia following his heroics in
Brisbane, says the fightback in the
first Test highlights this England
side’s never-say-die mentality.
He said: “I don’t think anyone is
worried about what happened four
years ago. We come to Adelaide with
real determination and energy to
hopefully go 1-0 up in the series.
“That’s what we’ll be thinking
“WE’VE GOT THOSE
AUSSIES REELING”
TUFFERS GIVES HIS
ASHES VERDICT: P30
Former England captain Beckham was part of London’s successful bid for the 2012 Olympics, which also swung late on
LOWDOWN | HOW THE VOTE DRAMA WILL UNFOLD TODAY
● The four bidders will make their concluding appointment.
final 30-minute presentations to the
executive committee, starting at 8am ●The all-important secret ballot of the
GMT. 22 ExCo members then finally takes
place at Fifa’s headquarters on banks of
● As pre-determined by a draw, Lake Geneva, with a majority needed
Holland/Belgium will make the first for victory.
pitch, with England in the penultimate
slot at 10am. Spain/Portugal go at 9am ●If no bidders have a majority – ie 12
and Russia have the much coveted votes – then the candidate with the
Arsenal land plum draw
and Irons get the Blues
▲
FOOTBALL
about – we won’t be worrying about ARSENAL’S position as overwhelming
what’s happened in the past or what Carling Cup favourites was enhanced
happened in the last innings. That’s last night when they were paired with
finished as far as we’re concerned. Championship side Ipswich in the
“We showed great character the draw for the semi-finals.
way we were able to get back into the The Gunners, without a trophy
game. There’s a good feeling in the since their FA Cup victory over
dressing room at the moment – it’s a Manchester United in 2005, are now
nice feeling having a settled XI and ideally placed to win their first silver-
have a group who are working hard.” ware since they moved into Emirates
While England are certain to name Stadium.
and unchanged side, Australia are set Ipswich, through to the last four for
to axe Mitchell Johnson after he fin- the first time since 2001, are currently
ished the first Test wicketless and just four points outside of the
bring in either Ryan Harris or left- Championship relegation zone but
armer Doug Bollinger. secured their place in the last four by
CITYA.M. 2 DECEMBER 2010
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fewest votes is eliminated and another
round of voting held until a majority is
achieved. In the event of a tie Fifa pres-
ident Sepp Blatter has the casting vote.
●The result – and that for the 2022
World Cup, which will also be voted on
today – is expected to be announced
sometime after 3pm, by Blatter at the
Zurich exhibition centre.
beating Premier League West Brom 1-
0 at Portman Road last night.
West Ham’s reward for their 4-0 win
over Manchester United is a tie against
Birmingham. Alex McLeish’s side beat
Aston Villa 2-1 in the Second City
derby to qualify for the semi-finals.
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SEMI-FINALS | CARLING CUP
Ipswich Town v Arsenal
West Ham v Birmingham City
First legs to be played: w/c 10 Jan
Second legs to be played: w/c 24 Jan