Brand Finance, a consultancy, values Bayern Munich's brand at $900m.
Finance, management consultancy, advertising, public relations, lobbying: these and other useless occupations consume thousands of the brightest students.
Owen has a background in finance and consultancy and will aim to raise the profile of the company's data on venture capital sector within the City.
Among the universities I surveyed with the excellent researcher John Sheil, the proportion of graduates taking jobs in finance and management consultancy ranges from 5% at Edinburgh to 13% at Oxford, 16% at Cambridge, 28% at the London School of Economics and 60% at the London Business School.
Its services include customer services, administration and support, human resources, information technology, property consultancy, finance and treasury and management consultancy.
Smart graduates flood out of university with a choice – do a startup or (as is often the case often) get a high-flying job, such as in the world of finance or management consultancy.
But trades such as consultancy and finance rely on big transactions to drive profits.
They took over consultancy businesses, finance companies and law firms, setting themselves up as global chains of one-stop shops.
Every year the global strategy consultancy Brand Finance releases a list of the world's most powerful brands.
Corporate giants galore, flash finance companies, and classy consultancy firms; you often feel lost in the milieu of big money sponsors - and just end up attending for the freebies.
