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Sir Simon Robey had his career planned out. He wanted to become a professional opera singer and his dream was to sing on stage at the Royal Opera House, but he accidentally stumbled into investment banking.
It’s a decision he occasionally regrets while singing in the shower in the morning. But Robey, 60, turned out to be a pretty good banker, and has been described as the City’s “trillion dollar man” for the cumulative size of the mega-deals he has worked on, including advising the Cadbury board on the sale of the 197-year-old chocolate company to America’s Kraft in 2010. His sought-after advice has earned him at least £137m in the last seven years alone.
George Osborne to quit Evening Standard to join tiny M&A boutique with massive pay
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Six ways to make trading fairer
As we try to understand what happened in the meme-stock frenzy a populist uprising, a skillfully disguised market manipulation, or both? one thing is clear: The public doesn’t trust the stock market. In his latest column, Andrew offers some potential ways to make investing fairer and regain trust:
A transaction tax, even of 0.1 percent of a trade’s value, could reduce the attractiveness of the high-speed trading that gives sophisticated Wall Street firms a huge advantage.
Force hedge funds to disclose short-selling positions. “If we as a society believe transparency is important to understand who is buying up shares, it would seem logical that we also want to know who is betting against them,” Andrew writes.
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has picked up a new job job as an investment banker after leaving posts at the Evening Standard and BlackRock.
Mr Osborne, 49, served in David Cameron s Cabinet between 2010 and 2016, before Theresa May became prime minister.
He then served as a backbench MP until the 2017 General Election, while taking up new roles in media and banking.
Last year he was promoted from editor to editor-in-chief at the London Evening Standard.
He has now left the role, as well as a £650,000-a-year, one-day-a-week position he held at US fund manager BlackRock.
George Osborne served in David Cameron s Cabient from 2010 to 2016, since then he has taken on a number of high-profile jobs, some of which boast a six-figure salary. He is expected to leave the Evening Standard and BlackRock in March to join banking firm Robey Warshaw
George Osborne to join Robey Warshaw
Former Chancellor will give up roles at BlackRock and the Evening Standard to join the Mayfair-based boutique advisory firm
George Osborne
George Osborne is becoming a full-time banker at Robey Warshaw, the merger house behind some of Britain s biggest corporate takeovers.
The former chancellor s move, first reported by the
Financial Times, means he will give up his roles at BlackRock and the
Evening Standard.
Mr Osborne s appointment marks the first time that the boutique advisory firm has hired a partner since it was set up by bankers Sir Simon Robey and Simon Warshaw in 2013 alongside founding member Philip Apostolides.
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