The eurozone is facing its most serious challenges since the single currency began. In the December print edition of the
Review, which is being delivered to eligible members in the next few days, Alex Brummer, City Editor of the
Daily Mail, explains that the region faces economic stagnation, worsening fiscal imbalances and a banking system that is still reeling from the financial crisis.
The latest edition also examines the growing influence of activist investors on the corporate scene. More specifically, the ousting of Sotheby's Chief Executive Bill Ruprecht by Daniel S. Loeb confirms that the style of US shareholder activism characterised by Loeb and his fellow billionaire Carl Icahn has landed firmly in the UK. And there's more to come in 2015.
At the opposite end of the spectrum is a gentler corporate habit - that of volunteering. It has long been accepted as a way to team build and develop bonds between an employer, its local community and wider public. Now it is recognised that volunteering can help individuals stand out at each stage of their career - and that it can help your company too. Research by UBS found volunteers performed significantly better than non-volunteers.
The value of volunteering is highlighted, too, in our interview with the new Lord Mayor of London and CISI Chairman Alan Yarrow, Chartered FCSI(Hon).
We also look at the shift away from long-term, individual relationships in wealth management and ask whether this trend has adversely affected the industry.
To round off your reading experience, turn to our incisive columnists, Andrew Davis in Last Word, and Christopher Adams, who is now the
Financial Times' energy correspondent and has written his final column for us on his predictions for 2015. He will be succeeded by Anthony Hilton,
Evening Standard columnist and 2014 Business Journalist of the Year.
Added to all this is the fourth 12-page edition of the CISI's new academic journal,
Review of Financial Markets.
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the online edition which is updated regularly with news, features and comment about the CISI and the financial services industry.
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