Louisa Clarence-Smith

Retailers have cut back their investment plans for the year ahead to the lowest level since the start of the pandemic as the cost-of-living crisis knocks consum

Downing Street is considering investing billions of pounds a year in improving the energy efficiency of low-value homes to help households cope with the rising

Britain and Mexico began talks today on a new free trade deal that could boost exports of business services and goods, such as electric vehicles and Scotch whi

As the pandemic receded, managers keen to get staff back into the office got creative. Free cake, drinks trolleys and team outings to the arcade were all wheele

National Grid said it expected to deliver higher profits in UK electricity operations for the year to the end of March because of rising inflation.The prices ch

A Canadian property investor has walked away from a potential bidding war for McKay Securities, the southeast-focused landlord. Slate Asset Management, based

Bridgepoint Group, the first private equity firm to list in London in decades, reported higher-than-expected assets under management and fund investment returns, sending its shares up by nearly 10 per cent

It wasn’t until Shami Iqbal left Bromley, where he spent his early years, to visit India and Pakistan that he realised his father, the cricketer Asif Iqbal, was

It takes a valiant 40 minutes of an interview with the man overseeing the government body responsible for housing delivery before the conversation turns to Vlad

Britain is preparing to launch “the most generous visa system in the world” for company founders and high-skilled workers in an attempt to drive up productivity

The property arm of the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar is behind some of London’s most luxurious developments and is backed by one of the world’s richest natio

A year before the collapse of Carillion, the giant outsourcer that was one of KPMG’s biggest audit clients, the senior leadership team in Britain of the “Big F

Ken Costa, the veteran investment banker, has called on Boris Johnson to lead a taskforce of the City’s great and good to convince Arm to list in London.He wants the prime minister to co-ordinate with the London Stock Exchange, bankers and technology founders to present a credible alternative to lis

It had been more than a year in the making, but in the end the blockbuster takeover of Arm could not survive the the pressure of scrutiny from regulators a

A City analyst who said that Autonomy’s accounts were “wrong and misleading” years before a major fraud was unravelled has warned that Mike Lynch “very nearly” got away with it.Paul Morland, formerly of Astaire Securities and Peel Hunt, was one of a number of analysts and hedge funds who questioned

Poor parental leave policies have led one in five younger workers to quit their job, a survey has found.A poll of more than 2,000 adults by Opinium found that 1

One of Britain’s biggest asset managers is exploring how it can enable individual investors and institutions to buy “tokens” in buildings, funds and infrastructure assets.Abrdn, the investment group formerly known as Standard Life Aberdeen, is working with Citigroup on how to broaden access to inv

Terry Smith has launched a fresh attack on Unilever’s management, describing its rebuffed £50 billion bid for GlaxoSmithKline’s consumer business as a “near-de

A Hong Kong-based former chief executive of Playtech has built a stake in the company and is thought to be acting as a conduit for a group of Asian investors s

The owner of Primark is cutting 400 jobs across the fashion retailer’s shops in Britain as part of a shake-up of its management structure. Associated British Foods said it planned to simplify its in-store management as part of a continuing programme to improve the efficiency of its shop retail opera…