People

• Baltzer claims top spot in funds table

  ROBERT Baltzer, who runs Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford's High-Yield Bond and Investment Grade Long Bond funds, has risen to first place in The Herald's monthly table of top-performing asset managers working for Scottish investment houses.

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  Nevis aims for new heights on the trail for acquisitions

  STANDING in a remarkably clean looking industrial unit in west Glasgow on a chilly winter morning, one of Scotland's leading entrepreneurs regards the prospects for 2012 with the kind of confidence that seems to be in short supply in business circles.

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  Advertising agency's guiding principle is for a thriving staff

  IN this week's SME Focus a successful branding specialist who got started in advertising by chance reflects on the importance of people to a service businesses.

• Aviva boss aims to insure larger share of the market

  "This is very pleasant for me spending the morning in Edinburgh," says David McMillan, the Arbroath boy who began as a factory accountant at Hewlett Packard in Queensferry, and now heads up the UK's biggest financial arm with 15,000 employees, one-fifth of them in Scotland.

• Goodwin treatment 'appalling'

  JIM McColl, one of Scotland's most successful businessmen, said yesterday it was "appalling" Fred Goodwin had been stripped of his knighthood over his management of Royal Bank of Scotland.

• Cairn MD Brown to be ICAS president

  ONE of Scotland's leading female executives, Jann Brown, managing director of Cairn Energy, is in line to become president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

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  Profile: Alison Newton, legal mind

  Helping out in a hospice provided valuable life and work experience for the graduate who became head of the Glasgow office of law firm HBJ Gateley.

• O'Carroll seals Widows switch

  LLOYDS Banking Group's Edinburgh-based fund management business Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has appointed Lucy O'Carroll as its chief economist.