MaxAim Blog

Five of the North of England's leading financial professionals have come together to form a new company, MaxAim, that promises to deliver strategic and financial management advice from a refreshingly different perspective. The founders of MaxAim are Matt Peters, Chris Cormack, Ian Robinson, Marcus Green and Simon Oldfield. After initially… Read more »

Whilst I am enjoying the fact that the need for budget tightening is creating debate about the role of the state (as we have mentioned before on our blog) it is about time that the opponents of the government's policies upped their game. It is getting a bit tedious to… Read more »

So the initial details of the Comprehensive Spending Review have been unveiled by George Osborne. Whilst they represent massive public sector cuts (totalling �83billion) I guess they are in line with what the country was expecting. The fact that the FTSE 100 was up on the day and that the labour party… Read more »

Having met Sir Phillip Green three years ago as part of the process of winning the Bank of Scotland Entrepreneur Challenge it was easy to see why he is so successful. His ability to cut through the detail and identify the real issues and opportunities was inspiring. I have met… Read more »

Steve Ballmer's recent reference to the new PC (the personal cloud) brought back memories of Pootle in the Flumps being followed round everywhere by a gloomy cloud…strange how the memory retains some useless trivia but can fail to retain other key information! However, the personal cloud should provide a much more… Read more »

So tomorrow sees the publication of the green paper on banking. This will undoubtedly see an element of bank bashing as well as proposals to try and force the banks into increasing their lending. Whilst I have some (albeit limited) sympathy with the banks I do believe that they have to step… Read more »

I have just been listening to an interesting article on Radio 5 about whether Dan Brown is a good novelist and why his books were such a big success, despite being derided by the literarchy (not sure whether I have just made that word up!). This got me thinking about the… Read more »

George Osborne has been asking for suggestions on how the public sector can reduce costs and cut government waste. I understand that the most popular suggestion is to cut overseas aid which is no surprise given that it is a popular saying that charity begins at home. Whilst this highlights an area… Read more »

Firstly, apologies for our recent absence from the world of blogging. Despite our best intentions we have let this slip due to heavy work-load (something we promised we wouldn't let happen when we set out on our journey!) Hopefully we haven't ended up too far off course and can get… Read more »

Apologies we've not blogged for a while, life has been getting quite busy for us. MaxAim was recently asked to undertake its first international assignment in the US, great news for the firm, and for Ian who jumped at the opportunity. However, following a week in Arizona Ian now finds… Read more »