Elevate - for business leaders

Best of Elevate: our top 10 business posts of 2011

Thursday, December 22, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Thought Leadership | Tags: business, entrepreneurs, links, blog, best, Elevate, 2011, reads

Another chance to see our most popular business-related posts of 2011…

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Inside Elevate – the magazine for UK business leaders

Thursday, December 15, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Thought Leadership | Tags: business, entrepreneurs, entrepreneur, Grant Thornton, insight, advice, magazine, comment, subscribe, business leaders, Elevate magazine, elevate, features

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Grant Thornton’s Elevate magazine comes out but twice a year, and that’s why it’s packed with the latest thinking for and from UK business leaders. Here’s what you’ll find inside the latest issue and how to join our mailing list.

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Life-changers: 11 business leaders, 11 big decisions

Tuesday, December 13, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: My big decision | Tags: business, entrepreneurs, links, entrepreneur, David Cameron, podcasts, my big decision, interviews, EU, vodcasts, veto, My Big Decision, podcasts, business, decision, interviews, David Cameron, EU

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In the week that Prime Minister David Cameron made the historic decision to veto a new European Union treaty, we review our blog interview series on the life-changing decisions made by world-famous leaders in business…

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Finance Bill 2012 tax updates and what they mean

Tuesday, December 06, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Economy, Tax | Tags: business, tax, finance, Francesca Lagerberg, UK, budget, analysis, legislation, tax policy, Finance Bill, Finance Bill 2012, draft, Legislation Day

More than 1100 pages make up the draft legislation for the next Finance Bill, which was published today. Here are some of the highlights for UK large corporates, small businesses and individuals from our Budget team at Grant Thornton.

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Crisis in UK small caps threatens UK growth

Thursday, December 01, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Thought Leadership | Tags: economy, AIM, LSE, investors, FTSE, Philip Secrett, London, UK economy, capital markets, stock market, fund managers, smaller listed, UK equities, small caps, equity markets

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Starved of capital, the small company sector is facing a crisis that may have severe knock-on effects for the future health of the UK economy. A Grant Thornton survey of 50 leading UK fund managers and institutional investors, who between them control funds valued at £43 billion, highlighted the concerns in a new report released this week.

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