Of life and Liberty
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Donald Gordon founded Liberty Life in 1957 with a sum of 40,000 pounds sterling. The company went on to become South Africa's biggest life insurer, worth 5 billion pounds sterling. Gordon has also taken a particular interest in out-of-town shopping complexes, and Liberty Life owns 1.2 billion pounds sterling worth of UK shopping malls. The portfolio includes a large share of Capital Shopping Centres, which owns the Lakeside and MetroCentre shopping malls in the UK. Gordon has now stepped down as Chief Executive of Liberty Life to concentrate on expanding the company globally.
Publication Name: Estates Gazette
Subject: Real estate industry
ISSN: 0014-1240
Year: 1997
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Tales from a high flyer
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Retired surveyor Sir Jack Hughes feels that the best thing he ever did for Jones Lang Wootton, where he began working after the second world war, was to recruit Norman Bowie as a partner. He was able to build up clients who were developers or financiers, and this sparked off his interest in property development. He established a very close relationship with Joe Levy, whom he regards as having been outstanding in his ability to predict how sites should be developed and how a property should be acquired.
Publication Name: Estates Gazette
Subject: Real estate industry
ISSN: 0014-1240
Year: 1999
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Time for property to measure up
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Property companies should be made to report on their performance and use benchmarks in order that investors can assess the quality of portfolio management. An independent evaluation of a company's performance would make it easier to distinguish its particular characteristics from others in the property sector and evaluate its activities, while providing investors with information that would aid them to make decisions on the company's shares.
Publication Name: Estates Gazette
Subject: Real estate industry
ISSN: 0014-1240
Year: 1995
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