“Bet365: UK’s best-paid boss hits £323m jackpot”

Dec 18, 2019 | Companies

Compare and contrast. The average salary of a nurse in Northern Ireland is £32,011, less than the average for both other nurses and all other jobs. Denise Coates, the boss of Bet365 (me, neither) has been paid (nearly said ‘earned’) £323m this year. That was a rise, however, of just 2.2%. If she feels hard done-by, the nurses salaries have actually fallen by 3.7% year-on-year. Anyway. Let’s Get Brexit Done.

“Amazon invades financial services with home insurance launch”

Oct 25, 2022 | Companies

Amazon, like Musk, and Branson before them both, can afford to try lots of stuff and fail at some.

“Natwest and trio of private equity firms vie for Quilter”

Aug 2, 2022 | Companies

In the 80s and 90s, banks and building societies bought life insurance, pension companies and fund managers, took on lots of financial advisers and sold financial products by the bucket-load, by means both fair and foul, to their customers.

“Nutmeg losses climb 28% after JPMorgan takeover”

Jun 30, 2022 | Companies

If you’re offering cheap, online investment advice, you need volume to make it profitable. To get volume (ie lots of money), you need marketing (to get lots of people to log in and give you money). And that costs, particularly, as will inevitably be the case, most of...