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• Profile: Forging ahead with flexibility in busy times.

  - 2007-02-12

  Byline: Hannah Williams Penny Green is a busy woman. Charged with responsibility for the in-house benefits, administration, pensioner payroll and investment committee support for the Superannuation Arrangements of the University of London SAUL, she also finds time to be president of the Pensions...

  Tags: Benefits, FINANCE, Halliburton Co., institute, pension, president, Strategy, University of London

• The union of two

  - 2006-04-10

  Colin Andrew Wright pledged his eternal love to Salise Michelle Haith at Castle McCulloch in Jamestown, NC. The bride is a graduate of North Carolina Central University. She is a finance operations specialist. The groom is a graduate of Royal Holloway, University of London. He is an information technology consultant....

  Tags: FINANCE, graduate, HARDWARE, University of London

• Intellectual Property Is The (Contested) Foundation Of The Global Liberalization Trade And Investment

  BNET - 2005-11-14

  The causes of global economic liberalization are commonly located in technological change, hegemonic leadership, or a combination of the two. This paper argues that the technological imperative for global liberalization, and the commercial power and thus the hegemony of the United States, both now rely on the prevention of free...

  Tags: Intellectual Property, Investment, University Of London, Liberalization, Bundling Measure, Free Trade, Finance

• IFA talent runs in family.(Sarah Speirs joins Buckles Investment Services)(independent financial advisers)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-07-14

  IF THERE is a gene for a career in the IFA business the Speirs family seem to have it. Nigel Speirs, chief executive of Buckles Investment Services in North Wales, has been recently joined by daughter Sarah Sarah graduates with a first...

  Tags: advisor, CAREER, FINANCE, financial, investment, talent, University of London

• `Sustainable bioprospecting' in biodiverse developing countries subject of expert panel at headquarters, 19 April.

  - 2005-04-15

  M2 PRESSWIRE-15 April 2005-UN: `Sustainable bioprospecting' in biodiverse developing countries subject of expert panel at headquarters, 19 AprilC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14042005 NEW YORK - More than a decade after the coming into force of the United Nations Convention on Biological...

  Tags: benefit, FINANCE, knowledge, R&D, University of London

• Canales Clariond visits London.

  - 2004-09-22

  MEXICO CITY, Sep 21, 2004 (Notimex/Corporate Mexico by Internet Securities, Inc. via COMTEX) -- In order to promote British investments in Mexico, strengthen the economic ties and boost friendship with the United Kingdom, the Secretary of Economy Fernando Canales Clariond has carried out a working visit...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, Mexico, secretary, University of London

• Trade Policies and the Legal Perspective of Electronic Banking Activities in the Single European Market

  BNET - 2004-08-02

  An undiluted policy of mutual recognition and "home country" control is often regarded as an effective remedy to the dysfunction of the single financial area. This paper intends to support this argument. In particular, it will make the case for genuine "home country" banking supervision over cross-border electronic banking activities...

  Tags: Electronic Banking, Financial, University Of London, Banking, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

• Does Inward Foreign Direct Investment Boost The Productivity Of Domestic Firms?

  BNET - 2004-05-01

  Are there productivity spillovers from FDI Foreign Direct Investment to domestic firms, and, if so, how much should host countries be willing to pay to attract FDI? To examine these questions it uses a plant-level panel covering U.K. manufacturing from 1973 through 1992. Paper estimates a significantly positive correlation between...

  Tags: Spillover, University Of London, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Finance

• News: GSAM wins oe200m SAUL mandate.(Brief Article)

  - 2004-03-15

  Goldman Sachs Asset Management GSAM has been appointed to manage a GBP200m currency mandate for the SAUL Trustees, who oversee the pension scheme of the University of London's non-academic staff. The mandate will overlay the overseas equity assets in the SAUL portfolio and seek...

  Tags: asset, FINANCE, Investment, Strategy, University of London

• Saul keeps close eye on liabilities.

  - 2004-02-29

  Byline: Mike Foster Most UK pension schemes are determined to maintain hefty weightings in equities, despite suffering from a significant reduction in their solvency. Some are happy to diversify into strategies such as currency overlay or enhanced indexation while they push up fixed-income...

  Tags: asset, equity, FINANCE, Investment, strategy, U.K., University of London