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15 March 2010

Features, research & analysis

Spread Betting by Vince Stanzione 11/02/2010

The dawn of 2010 has prompted a look ahead at a possible short and the power of sport

Fund Manager Focus by Jenny Lowe 11/02/2010

George Luckraft, a star fund management name for many years, was one of the worst hit by the downturn, but the past year has seen an impressive comeback

Companies: Anglo Pacific , ATH Resources , office2office , Morson

People: Stott to steer sweet firm’s financials 12/02/2010

Confectionery and snack foods group Zetar has drafted in a new figures man, namely experienced food and beverage sector finance man Mark Stott.

Companies: Zetar

People: Boyd on board at cake-maker  12/02/2010

AIM-traded cake, bread and ‘morning goods’ maker Finsbury Food has appointed experienced food sector numbers man Stephen Boyd as finance director ‘with immediate effect’.

Companies: Finsbury Food

People: Learning the hard way  12/02/2010

Gordon Saghera, chief executive of Oxford Nanopore, a private biotech concern 25 per cent owned by AIM-listed IP Group, is attempting to build ‘a billion-dollar tech company in the UK’.

Companies: IP Group

People: New venture for Dowgate émigrés 12/02/2010

Tony Rawlinson, ex-chairman of smaller company investment concern Dowgate Capital, is scanning the market for opportunities for Cairn Financial Advisers, the advisory group he and former colleagues set up after the acquisition of Dowgate by Edward ‘Dr Death’ Vandyk’s Astaire Group.

Companies: Astaire Group

People: Raggett welcomes Moscow allies 12/02/2010

As he savours helping the London float of a £250 million US-quoted oil and gas company, Simon Raggett, chief executive of corporate finance adviser Strand Hanson, says he is looking forward to working with the firm’s new ‘strategic adviser’, Russian-based Renaissance Capital.

People: Fourscore not out 12/02/2010

Friends in the City have been celebrating the 80th birthday of Trevor Bass, doyen of financial public relations who helped the controversial Blue Arrow recruitment float in the 1980s and now advises clients for Threadneedle Communications.

Companies: Mears Group

People: New billet for Youngman 12/02/2010

David Youngman, former pillar of stockbroker WH Ireland, is joining stockbroker Daniel Stewart to head corporate finance at its Manchester office.

Companies: Daniel Stewart Securities

People: Going for a kiwi corker 12/02/2010

Veteran Aussie entrepreneur Ian Gowrie-Smith is pleasing his fans with a planned £6 million AIM float for New Zealand-focused Kea Petroleum.

Companies: Skyepharma

People: Wide awake at HealthyDays 12/02/2010

Amer Deen, the entrepreneurial figure who headed the ill-starred Mosaique investment concern for two years, has assembled an experienced board for his acquisitive new venture, PLUS-quoted HealthyDays.

People: Sport for Moulton 12/02/2010

Jon Moulton, the investment star whose rejected strategy for Rover was vindicated by the car-maker’s later collapse, is relishing his newest non-executive post as chairman of smaller company broker and adviser FinnCap.

Companies: Better Capital

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Sector: Oil & Gas Producers

Companies: Rheochem

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