As reported in the UK Financial Times, South Korea’s National Pension Service, the world’s fifth-largest pension fund, plans to take a 12 per cent stake in Gatwick airport next week, stressing that investment in Britain will play a significant role in quadrupling its international exposure.
The NPS, which is aiming to expand …
Ruben Anton joined GDP Global as Client Services Manager in early 2009 and has since worked closely with GDP directors to deepen his knowledge of the industry. He is an honours graduate in English Translation & Interpreting from the University of Alicante, and …
Douglas Mellor is an Associate Consultant of GDP Global and a business leader with 35 years’ experience in technology dependent industries, including turnaround and post acquisition merger situations, JV and start-ups. His unique business experience includes a blend of general management, …
Inflationary Pressures are Preventing Central Banks from Easing Financial Stresses -
The Good News (and the Bad) for PPP’s and PFI in the UK.
There has been a lot written and discussed recently about the UK Government’s “Sustainable Investment …
… If PFI Projects are to Proceed in the UK.
As reported in an earlier paper (see August and November 2008 blogs), many building projects under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in the UK, in which the private sector and their bankers develop and fund major infrastructure projects and …
….But, It Is Not All Bad News 
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Not only has the global financial crisis slowed the development of most PFI projects in the U.K. (‘Public Private Finance Initiatives’ for developing infrastructure), the funding models have changed dramatically. In one extreme, the …
It’s doom and gloom everywhere – no need to say more. But is there a silver lining for some IPAs, I wonder?
We’re used to seeing assembly jobs relentlessly moving to the latest and cheapest labour entrant to the EU. Once the years of euphoria that take farmers out of the …
It’s doom and gloom everywhere – no need to say more. But is there a silver lining for some IPAs, I wonder?
We’re used to seeing assembly jobs relentlessly moving to the latest and cheapest labour entrant to the EU. Once the years of euphoria that take farmers out of the …
An article in the Scottish press back in January asking “How do you measure whether location A or location B is a better place to do business?”
This week Ernst & Young’s European Investment Monitor (EIM) …
Full credit to British Midlands Development Corporation for its promotion of a credible technology development in Birmingham, England, that is bound to capture a lot of attention.
Its smart promotion through press releases and event activities, of the University of Birmingham is almost as smart as the university’s development of …