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Fund management
Martin Gilbert faces investor revolt over governance concerns
...Glass Lewis has also urged investors to vote against Gilbert because of the board’s lack of gender diversity, noting that AssetCo is “one of the few remaining UK public companies with an all-male board”....
April 17, 2024
Credit Suisse Group AG
Last Credit Suisse chief executive, Ulrich Körner, to leave UBS
...The combination of the two banks’ holding companies will mean the Credit Suisse management board will become obsolete, including the role of chief executive....
May 6, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
News in-depthJAB Holdings Ltd
Pret owner JAB shifts focus to insurance after consumer strategy wobbles
...“The portfolio has been diversified in consumer goods and services.”...
May 13, 2024
InterviewUS financial regulation
US consumer finance watchdog raises alarm over credit card megadeals
...The top US consumer finance watchdog has raised doubts about megamergers in the credit card industry, just as Capital One attempts to close its $35.3bn takeover of card issuer Discover Financial Services...
April 24, 2024
InterviewEU-China relations
EU lobbies China to keep agriculture out of trade disputes
...“There is also space for improvement,” Wojciechowski said of the trade balance, noting that Chinese consumers spent about €10 per head annually on EU agrifood products, just half of the €20 per head spent...
May 5, 2024
Agricultural commodities
US cattle prices drop as traders fear bird flu outbreak could knock demand
...The US Department of Agriculture at the start of this week banned infected cattle from crossing state borders and said it would test ground beef for bird flu particles, as the UN’s World Health Organization...
May 2, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management North America
New models for the next age of fund management
Wednesday, 25 SeptemberNew York, NY, USA
Chinese economy
China’s consumer inflation edges up in signal of slow economic recovery
...China’s economy had been beset by flat or falling consumer prices for almost a year, with the country’s 1.4bn consumers widely opting to save instead of spend in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic....
May 11, 2024
News in-depthFrench economy
France seeks new generation of farmers for industry in tumult
...It may also alter the output mix of French agriculture as the remaining farms shift to more profitable segments such as cereals and grains, while livestock shrinks....
February 8, 2024
Entain PLC
Entain appoints head of US activist investor to board
...UK gambling group Entain has appointed the head of one of its largest activist investors to its board, weeks after the company’s former chief executive quit following a backlash over a slumping share price...
January 3, 2024
Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
Women secure higher profile in agriculture
...“Being a woman leader shouldn’t come at the expense of the family,” stresses Sarah Lockwood, global regenerative agriculture programme director at Danone, the French group behind consumer goods such as Evian...
January 25, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The rise of agricultural populism
...consumers and the food and retail industry....
February 5, 2024
News in-depthUK agriculture
‘It’s too wet’: UK food security at risk because of record rain, farmers warn
...In its early survey of this year’s harvest, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, an advisory body to farmers, found excessive rain had caused big declines in planting of crops such as winter...
April 13, 2024
Anjana Ahuja
The EU risks losing out on farming’s genomic reboot
...EU ministers recognise that treating all genetic technology in the same restrictive way is outdated and voted earlier this month to change the rules, but green-lighting PBOs faces opposition from consumer...
January 31, 2024
The Big Read
The precarious future facing Brazil’s new boomtowns
...This will entitle it to a share of government tax revenues and a slew of new public services and projects....
March 10, 2024
Andrew Hill
Dear board directors, please don’t shoot the proxy messenger
...Advisers that sell consulting services alongside proxy advice need to guard against the risk of conflict....
April 22, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Investing in funds
State Street’s SSGA warns investors on additional costs of T+1
...Portfolio managers might also use cash or exchange traded futures “to manage the impact of misalignment”, the board added....
April 17, 2024
Financial Stability Board
Hedge funds and commodities traders urged to hold more liquid assets
...The Financial Stability Board, which includes the world’s leading finance ministers, central bankers and regulators, said on Wednesday that after assessing a series of recent market panics, many funds and...
April 17, 2024
Food & Beverage
Plans to label UK homegrown food sparks ministerial row
...products produced to lower welfare standards overseas aren’t clearly labelled to differentiate them,” he said, promising to “tackle the unfairness created by misleading labelling and protect farmers and consumers...
February 21, 2024
The Big Read
The dubious climate gains of turning soil into a carbon sink
...The benefits of regenerative agriculture are not in doubt....
January 23, 2024
Hipgnosis Songs Fund
Blackstone bid for Hipgnosis receives backing from board
...Blackstone has won the backing of Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s board as the US private equity group seeks to derail Concord Chorus’s proposed $1.4bn takeover of the UK-listed music rights investment company Blackstone...
April 21, 2024
US financial regulation
US consumer regulator proposes capping bank overdraft fees
...Overdraft was originally a service meant to protect consumers from fees and penalties associated with cheques that bounce....
January 17, 2024
Investor activism
Activist wins three board seats at US railroad Norfolk Southern but fails to oust CEO
...Its efforts to oust Norfolk’s Southern’s CEO and overhaul the board were backed by two labour unions as well as proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis....
May 9, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The limits of splitting UK and EU financial services
...It is just one of several regulations that financial services businesses with cross-Channel operations have been trying to navigate after Brexit....
February 21, 2024
Kering SA
François Pinault’s grandson, 26, replaces him on Christie’s board
...A grandson of French billionaire François Pinault has joined the board of Christie’s in the first sign of third-generation succession planning within the family behind luxury group Kering....
April 4, 2024
UK Government
Number 10 accused of blocking ex-parole board chair becoming parliamentary ombudsman
...Nick Hardwick, a former HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and ex-parole board chief, was the preferred candidate of the House of Commons to become the head of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman,...
March 27, 2024

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