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June 11th, 2005:

The six smart things to do this summer

The Guardian: The six smart things to do this summer

Saturday June 11, 2005

The way you choose to spend your long break could lead to your big break. Adeline Iziren has some tips

It’s Tony Blair’s favourite mantra: education, education, education. But an education isn’t enough to land you a great graduate job these days – even if you end up getting a first from a top university. What you need is work experience and this is borne out by numerous surveys which show that bosses want employability skills and tend to offer graduate jobs to students who have worked for them paid or unpaid. So, if you’re about to start your second or final year in the autumn, why not make the most of the long summer break. You could: read more

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Professional Investor: Too much concentration could give you a headache

The Independent (UK): Professional Investor: Too much concentration could give you a headache

By Sanjeev Shah

Published: 11 June 2005

The FTSE 100 index, the leading benchmark for UK shares, has again broken through the 5,000 level this week. However, investors who opt for a strategy of tracking the Footsie may not be aware of the nature of the risks they run – and about the opportunities they miss by sticking to an index of Britain’s 100 biggest companies by market valuation.

Their money is not distributed evenly across these companies, which range from the oil giant BP at the top of the spectrum to the copper producer Antofagasta. In fact, cash is allocated by company value. read more

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Movers and shakers

Financial Times: Movers and shakers

By Philip Coggan

Published: June 11 2005

Oil lived up to its “black gold” nickname in 2004. The surge in the crude price past $50 a barrel may have been a burden for motorists, but it allowed the corporate oil giants to climb the FT Global 500 league table (see page 28). Collectively, the oil companies on the list have added some $400bn to their market value since last year. ExxonMobil only just fell short of unseating General Electric as the world’s largest company, and there were significant advances up the table for BP, Total, ChevronTexaco, Eni, ConocoPhillips and Royal Dutch/Shell. The latter rose from 13th to seventh place, despite management changes in the wake of its overstatement of oil reserves. read more

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Fat cats are thinner by a whisker

“Finally it is worth mentioning some of the fat cats who prospered and departed this year, and who will no longer muddy their paws in our table. Top of these is Sir Philip Watts, latterly of Shell, whose pension pot expanded by another £2.6m last year to a total of £12.6m despite his leaving the company in March. That will net him £600,000 a year for life to go with his £1m golden goodbye. Another reward for failure went to…”

Daily Telegraph: Fat cats are thinner by a whisker:  Saturday 11 June 2005

(Filed: 11/06/2005)

Industry bosses netted below average pay rises last year, report David Cheesman and Malcolm Moore

Hiss! Has someone taken the bowl of cream away from Britain’s fat cats? According to the annual reports, the pay of our top 10 chief executives went up by a mangy 2.4pc last year.

This sort of skimmed milk emolument is enough to make Bustopher Jones’ tail droop.

Not only is the rise barely enough to cover the cost of inflation, it is far lower than the national average.

Our bosses are not skin and bones, of course. They still took home £30.3m last year. read more

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