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The No Free Lunch column is written by Alistair Blair, who is a past winner of the Business Writer of the Year award, who has also worked in investment banking and fund management.
COMMENT: King of Shaves is promoting a bond direct to investors via press adverts. Alistair Blair professes himself amazed at the chutzpah of it all
30 June 2009
COMMENT: Annual reports contain far too much legalese and fluff, and not enough of the information investors require. And it's unlikely to get better
16 June 2009
COMMENT: We all know that past performance is not always a guide to the future. But some new pensions research shows just how bad a guide it can be
10 June 2009
COMMENT: A bill on directors' remuneration in the Lords has attracted remarkable support - but it needs more. Alistair Blair explains what you can do to curb excessive boardroom pay.
02 June 2009
COMMENT: A new book enlists Mother Teresa and the Pope in arguing that troubled banks should be automatically nationalised
27 May 2009
COMMENT: The scale of parliamentarians' expense-fiddling is peanuts compared with what goes on, largely unchallenged, in the boardrooms of UK plc
20 May 2009
COMMENT: Alistair Blair reviews Fool's Gold, Gillian Tett's new book about the credit crunch
13 May 2009
COMMENT: AG's press release crowed about Axeon's "promising and exciting future"
29 April 2009
COMMENT: Lord Myners is projecting some kind of "merrie governance"
22 April 2009
COMMENT: It's hard to escape the conclusion that BT is still a plodding incumbent
15 April 2009
THE BIG QUESTION: It's an issue that's divided the oil industry since it was first proposed in the 1950s - has the world's oil production capacity already entered terminal decline?
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Does the UK need a Glass-Steagall Act?
THE BIG QUESTION: Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson argues that High Street banks shouldn't be allowed to own investment banks. The British Bankers Association disagrees.