Other than the banks themselves, no sector has been closer to the frontline of the Credit Crunch than the Hedge Fund industry which has found itself in the unwelcome role of chief scapegoat for the collapse of the financial world as we previously knew it. This is an object lesson in what happens when an [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Hedge Funds, Reputation, tagged Credit Crunch, Hedge Funds, International Standard Asset Management, Man Group, Stanley Fink on 29 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Politics, Reputation, tagged Chelsea Football Club, Credit Crunch, George Osborne, Oleg Deripaska, Peter Mandelson, Political Donations on 27 October 2008 | 2 Comments »
My inaugural blog post (Never mind the Economics) looked at the issue of perception and reality but as this is an issue that sits at the heart of PR and communications I make no apologies for returning to it again today, following a weekend of heated media debate about the links of the UK’s business [...]
Oops I did it again…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Markets, Politics, tagged Bank of England, Gordon Brown, london Evening Standard, Mervyn King on 23 October 2008 | 3 Comments »
Mervyn King certainly put the cat among the pigeons on Tuesday evening with his unexpectedly pessimistic assessment of the UK’s economic fortunes. With the Bank of England expected to cut interest rates again as soon as next month and Gordon Brown joining Mr King in using the R word for the first time yesterday the [...]
Power to the people…but at what cost?
Posted in Economy, Energy, Global Warming, tagged CO2 emissions, Dr Fatih Birol, Global Warming, International Energy Agency on 21 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Energy issues have jostled for press headlines with the collapse of the global banking sector for a number of weeks, so I approached today’s British American Business event – Global Energy Outlook: what are the challenges for a new energy era? – with considerable expectation. I wasn’t disappointed. The keynote speaker, Dr Fatih Birol, Chief [...]
Hate to say I told you so…
Posted in Economy, Politics, Reputation, tagged BBC, Bloomberg, Conservatives, David Cameron, Nick Robinson, Tory Party on 17 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Regular readers (both of you) will recall my post earlier in the week (I’m still standing…) that predicted David Cameron’s Conservative party would be eager to break free of their self-imposed supportive stance towards the Government’s economic stability proposals and re-establish their credentials as a party of opposition by, well, opposing things. This morning’s speech [...]
I heard it through the grapevine…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Media, Reputation, tagged BBC, Credit Crunch, FT, ITN, Observer, Recession on 16 October 2008 | 2 Comments »
The semi-nationalisation of a UK banking sector brought to its knees by a sustained collapse in trust and the rapid development of an unstoppable wave of negative (and possibly malicious) sentiment highlights the fact that this is the first recession of the digital age. For several years the NGO sector has led the way in [...]
Some guys have all the luck…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Media, Reputation, tagged BBC, churnalism, Flat Earth News, Nick Davies, Robert Peston on 15 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At times over the last couple of weeks it’s felt like Robert Peston, the BBC’s business editor, has generated as many headlines as the credit crunch with which his name has become almost synonymous. “The most powerful business journalist I have known in my lifetime” said Stephen Glover in the Independent at the weekend, while [...]
I’m still standing…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Politics, tagged Conservatives, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Government on 13 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s amazing to think that a month or so back the Government was almost out for the count; listless, directionless and in a state of near-mutiny over its leader. With his efforts to restore confidence in the markets being generally applauded around the world there is no doubt, as my Edelman colleague Jamie Lundie wrote [...]
Diamonds (and PR gaffes) are forever…
Posted in Edelman, Reputation, tagged Edelman, Gerald Ratner, Henley Business School, Jo Sheldon, John Madejski, Reputation on 10 October 2008 | 4 Comments »
Breaking away – if it’s possible – from the collapsing world economy, an interesting flyer lands on my desk for the 2008 Reputation Conference at the John Madejski Centre for Reputation at Henley Business School. The keynote speaker is one Gerald Ratner who certainly knows a thing or two about demolishing reputations – but is he [...]
