The golden rule of the office Christmas party: don’t be that guy (or girl) December 7, 2018 The office Christmas party is a minefield. We know this because every year, about this time, an article appears telling you how the office Christmas party is a minefield. Sometimes it offers advice, although those tips are usually either spurious (“remember not to drink too much”) or hand-chewingly obvious (“now is not the time to [...]
Elon Musk could learn a thing or two from Sweden about a healthy work-life balance December 7, 2018 Last month, Elon Musk issued another controversial decree from his Twitter parapet. Appealing to potential applicants to his various companies, Musk made the claim that “nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week”. When pressed for details on what would constitute an earth-altering amount of weekly work, he recommended “80 sustained, peaking above [...]
How to conduct a meeting out of the office December 6, 2018 | Sponsored The dreaded conference call… Remember heading to the meeting room and crowding around the speakerphone in the middle of the table? The robotic automated voice telling you that someone is about to join the call? There was nothing quite like the embarrassment of forgetting to press “mute” before saying something about the boss, or suddenly [...]
Best of Dropbox: here are the standout features of Dropbox Business Suite December 6, 2018 | Sponsored Here are the standout features of Dropbox Business Suite. Access With Dropbox you can access your docs anytime, anywhere. Spend less time tracking down and updating files, and more time doing the work you actually want to do. Team Spaces keeps all your work in one location so you won’t have to email the latest [...]
Dropbox keeps teams flowing December 6, 2018 | Sponsored In order to create articles for our "Work in Flow" series which explores better ways of working, City PM used Dropbox Paper to revolutionise an established approach by using this tool to introduce a new kind of collaboration during the creative process between editors, writers and designers, some of whom were not present in the London office. [...]
Brexit may shake up the jobs market, so get your CV in shape now December 6, 2018 We are less than four months away from when the UK is officially meant to leave the EU, but there’s still confusion and much negotiation to be done before we find out exactly what impact Brexit will have on the City. Jobs are already crossing the Channel – JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Lloyds and more [...]
Artemis US equities: Late-cycle investing … December 6, 2018 | Sponsored Cormac Weldon, manager of the Artemis US Select Fund and the Artemis US Smaller Companies Fund, analyses the reasons for increased volatility in the US market and explains why he is currently favouring companies with stable, predictable earnings. Context is everything. Two of the factors behind the recent increase in market volatility and the significant [...]
UK Investors forecast returns of 8.1 per cent – with UK millennials expecting more December 6, 2018 | City Talk UK investors expect annual returns of 8.1 per cent over the next five years, according to a major new global study. The finding, part of the Schroders Global Investor Study 2018, marked a notable fall from an expectation of 8.7 per cent in the UK in last year’s study. The returns, based on the average expectation of [...]
Is DIY investing a cheap trick? December 6, 2018 | City Talk As passive investors, we sometimes get asked by clients and prospects: “Why don’t I just invest in passive funds and exchanged-traded funds (ETFs) directly myself?” And at first glance, DIY investing may seem like the cheapest way to invest. But some professional services can actually work out as a much more cost-effective means of investing, [...]
