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COL runnings, sausages and who is Larry Fink?: September’s diary

FN tours the lighter side of the City

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Some of the City’s political bosses swapped London for the sunny south of France earlier this year Photo: Mike Kemp/Getty Images

COL runnings

Every year, the great and good of the property world go on a jolly – sorry work trip – to Cannes for the MIPIM Property Conference. It’s Europe’s biggest property event. But a spot on the French Riviera doesn’t come cheap.

Just ask the City of London Corporation. It put in an £80,000 budget for this year’s event. So what bang did the Corporation get for its buck?

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