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COMMENT: G4S has gone from pedestrian to promising
COMMENT: Guy Hands is running a €10bn business remotely from a tax haven. No wonder it's in trouble
COMMENT: BA is losing £50m a month
COMMENT: A simple and cheap proposal to improve bank governance
COMMENT: Alistair Blair reviews Fool's Gold, Gillian Tett's new book about the credit crunch
NO FREE LUNCH: Are investors really drowning in a sea of unnecessary information?
NO FREE LUNCH: Another reason to dislike share buy-backs - directors can use them to skew earnings and trigger substantial bonus payments to themselves. Next provides a case study
NO FREE LUNCH: Buying back shares is either a sensible way of deploying surplus capital, or a cheap trick to boost earnings momentum, and a sign that a company has run out of ideas
NO FREE LUNCH: Alan Greenspan's provoking question: Should CEO pay be higher?
NO FREE LUNCH: We're all living longer, so why won't pension funds believe it? Alistair Blair explores the arcane world of the actuary...