The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
When Clive Cowdery kicked off a tour of the City's leading fund managers in June this year, he walked into a different world.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Insurance entrepreneur Clive Cowdery is planning a shake-up of the UK's financial services sector after unveiling plans for a £1bn flotation of investment vehicle Resolution.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Clive Cowdery has risen once again. He has clambered off his airbed and is back after a summer in the sun that was punctuated only by a lunge at Bradford & Bingley (B&B) from his pool-side retreat.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
THERE are contra-thinkers and there is Clive Cowdery. The self-styled "value catalyst" in the insurance sector is spreading his wings dramatically again, much sooner
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Clive Cowdery is back – and so is Resolution. Less than six months after the financial services entrepreneur sold the life insurance assets of his Resolution business to Hugh Osmond's Pearl Group for £5bn – cannily keeping the rights to the name – Mr Cowdery announced his next venture yesterday.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Not since the Knutsford Four has there been so much excitement over a cash shell. Clive Cowdery's plans for a £1 billion listed vehicle to snap up, reshape, hammer together, pull apart and sell on financial services assets is bold, has the blessing of the City and, if nothing else, is certain to inspire dozens of bid rumours. To judge by the noises already coming from the Resolution camp, the deals...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Clive Cowdery thinks he can help find a resolution to financial companies' distress, announcing the formation of a company whose purpose is to buy troubled financial assets in Britain and the rest of Europe.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Resolution founder Clive Cowdery is to seek £1bn from investors in November as he steps up his efforts to profit from the turmoil among UK financial services companies.
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Resolution, the company run by entrepreneur Clive Cowdery, plans a 1bn flotation in November to buy the assets of financial services companies. John Tiner, ...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Clive Cowdery, the insurance entrepreneur, has recruited John Tiner, the former head of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for a new consolidation company that is set to float in November for £1 billion.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Resolution, the financial services-focused acquisition vehicle, is currently unlikely to buy or take stakes in general insurance or reinsurance companies, its founder, Clive Cowdery, said on Tuesday.
FT.com - Europe homepage (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Clive Cowdery, the insurance entrepreneur, is seeking a £1bn listing for Resolution, the takeover vehicle, that will invest in restructuring opportunities in the financial services industry
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in insurer Friends Provident rose in early trade on Thursday after the Financial Times reported that entrepreneur Clive Cowdery was considering a break-up bid for the group.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Buy-to-let mortgage specialist Paragon fell yesterday despite speculation that entrepreneur Clive Cowdery is set to swoop on the business.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Entrepreneur Clive Cowdery is considering making a bid for Bank of Ireland's UK mortgage lending unit, Irish media reported on Sunday.
