Questor share tip: BG Group a buy despite challenges ahead Since then Mr Finlayson has been executive director and managing director of BG Advance, which includes the group's exploration team, capital projects programme and procurement and technology operations. Mr Finlayson, who was a surprise appointment to the market, will take up the role from January 1, but Sir Frank will be around in an advisory capacity to help him ease into the position until the middle of the year. So, although Mr Finlayson was not the front-running candidate, it is interesting that he is an "outsider insider" and he has a great opportunity to help steer the group away from its current woes. The share price, after all, is now back down in the lows not seen since a few weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed. Following the recent warning about production, BG was keen to stress that most of the negative news related to deferral in production to future years. The exception to this is Alexandria in Egypt, where the company has not been able to stop a decline in gas output. However, most of this capable of being sorted out and global markets are structurally short of energy. BG's projects in Brazil and Australia remain very valuable. Trading on a 2013 earnings multiple of 11.9 and yielding 1.6pc, the shares remain a buy for recovery.