National Skills Academy for Financial Services partners with Prudential plc to provide access to financial skills training National Skills Academy for Financial Services partners with Prudential plc to provide access to financial skills training The National Skills Academy for Financial Services has partnered with Prudential plc to bring the insurer’s financial skills training packages to [...]
Sir Nigel Rudd, chairman of Longbow Capital, the specialist VCT and EIS healthcare investor, welcomes today’s Budget and comments on its potential for supporting the private sector. Longbow is a founding partner of the Boots Centre for Innovation, a technology hub based in Swansea, Wales, which works closely with early stage companies or inventors to [...]
Commenting on the Chancellor’s announcement to invest £180 million for up to 50,000 additional apprenticeship places over the next four years, Sylvia Perrins, CEO of the National Skills Academy for Financial Services, says: “We really welcome the Government’s support for apprenticeships. We believe that apprenticeships are an integral way for UK businesses to grow talent [...]
Commenting on the Budget’s first-time buyer initiative, Robin King, Director of Move with Us believes this will have a positive impact on the property market: “At last the chancellor has woken up and listened to thousands of families, nationwide, who are struggling to realize their dreams and get onto the property ladder. The more money [...]
Commenting on EIS and VCT changes in today’s Budget, Julian Hickman, Partner at Longbow Capital, the EIS and VCT healthcare investor, said: “The Budget has put VCTs and EIS back where they belong and that’s at the heart of enabling private investors to get behind British innovation and allow more companies – not just start-ups [...]
The National Skills Academy for Financial Services and CTP (Corporate Training Partnerships) are pleased to announce that our new work based assessment qualification is to be added to the Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) Qualification list. Known as Experience Counts this alternative work based route will lead to the award of the Diploma in Investment Planning [...]
Comment from Angelos Damaskos, CEO, Sector Investment Managers and Fund Advisor, Junior Oils TrustThe horrific earthquake in Japan has hit the World’s third-largest economy hard and, in weeks to come, the consequences will be felt in other parts of the world. The Bank of Japan reacted by pumping 183 billion dollars equivalent into the economy [...]
More than 90,000 students at Further Education colleges will have the opportunity to build their financial knowledge, skills and confidence during Barclays Money Skills ‘weeks’, which are commencing this week 7th – 11th March across the UK. Barclays and the c are working in partnership to deliver the learning week at 150 colleges and are [...]
The IMS Group (‘IMS’), a market leading provider of global regulatory compliance consulting and integrated business support to the asset management and securities industry, has been voted as the “Best North American Regulatory Advisory Firm” and “Best European Regulatory Advisory Firm,” at the second annual Hedge Week awards. The awards, which are decided solely by [...]
Two year seminar series to start in May 2011 to define eco-city policy and research agenda Two year seminar series to start in May 2011 to define eco-city policy and research agenda The University of Westminster is to spearhead an international consortium of research and policy organisations to define and advise on the current and [...]
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