Tears of Hoy. Chris Hoy triumphs again to become Britain’s most successful Olympian ever with sixth gold.
Success follows gold medal for Team GB’s Laura Trott in the women’s omnium event.
Victoria Pendleton bows out with a silver in the women’s sprint.
‘Prat’ Boris dismisses PM ambitions.
Sky Movies is to launch a dedicated James Bond film channel following its snatch and grab of the superspy’s back catalogue from ITV after more than 30 years.
The company, jointly owned by Thomson Reuters and U.S. clearing house DTCC that specializes in trading services, named Andrew Gray, managing director of core business management at DTCC, as its new chairman of the board.
Infectious Media, the independent media trading desk, has hired Chris Stark and Peter Hanford to the newly created roles of product director and head of sales respectively.
Tim Collier, chief financial officer of the financial and risk business at Thomson Reuters, and Mark Bradbury, managing director, head of global equities business services at Deutsche Bank, have also joined as members of the board.
EAGLE ASSET MANAGEMENT INC
The provider of equity and fixed-income investment strategies to institutional and individual investors appointed Charles Schwartz, Betsy Pecor, Matthew McGeary, and Matthew Sptiznagle as portfolio managers.
TOWRY
The company appointed Greg Moss as a wealth adviser at its Bristol office. He joins Towry from regional accountancy practice Old Mill.
HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
HSBC Global Asset Management has named Heiner Weber as Head of Institutional Sales, Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Weber has been Managing Director, HSBC Global Asset Management (Germany) since 2002 and will retain his position. Previously he worked in the Equity Sales and Global Markets units of HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt.
GENTRY WEALTH MANAGEMENT
The boutique advisory firm based in Arizona, hired advisers David Humphrey and Taiya Thompson who joined Gentry from Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC, a subsidiary of Boston-based Fidelity Investments.
