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Thames Water
Chinese state banks are lenders to Thames Water’s parent company
...The UK has moved to restrict Chinese investment in critical infrastructure such as the planned new Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk and forcing telecoms groups to strip out Huawei equipment from...
April 4, 2024
Investor activism
Activist shareholders target Samsung to unlock value
...“We feel strongly that the Japanese precedent is driving incremental change in Korea,” said Smith, whose London-based fund Palliser Capital has called on Samsung C&T’s management to reform its capital allocation...
February 2, 2024
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
UK insurance industry
UK car insurance prices fall for first time in two years
...Tim Rourke, UK head of P&C pricing, product, claims and underwriting at WTW, said the data suggested “the relentless rise in prices may finally be turning a corner”....
April 18, 2024
HTSI
Why menswear went mad for the builder’s apron
...(It’s particularly interesting in a season where the shirt pockets at Paul Smith, Ferragamo and elsewhere cover most of the front of the garment.)...
April 8, 2024
News updates from December 11: COP28 draft deal drops phaseout of fossil fuels, Zelenskyy implores US not to waver in its support for Kyiv
Manulife announces C$13bn reinsurance deal with KKR’s Global Atlantic
...Canadian insurance group Manulife has announced a C$13bn ($9.6bn) reinsurance deal with KKR’s Global Atlantic, freeing up C$1.2bn of capital that the Toronto-based insurer intends to return to investors...
December 11, 2023
Thames Water
Thames Water crisis prompts jitters over ‘gold standard’ debt model
...“The government wants to use the regulated asset base model to fund everything from Sizewell C [nuclear power plant] to the energy transition,” said one adviser close to the negotiations at Thames Water....
April 23, 2024
FT Live
Transforming the Finance Function with AI
Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making
Thursday, 25 AprilDigital Conference
FirstFT
FirstFT: Slowdown in dealmaking leaves private equity with record unsold assets
...On Saturday, May 4 in Washington, D.C., join Jake Sullivan, Gucci Westman, Jancis Robinson, Anne Applebaum and many more for our third annual FT Weekend Festival: US edition....
March 11, 2024
Samsung C&T Corp
Samsung quashes activist proposals backed by Norway’s oil fund
...“The outcome of the annual general meeting reflects significant minority shareholder support for greater shareholder returns,” said James Smith, founder of Samsung C&T investor Palliser Capital and former...
March 15, 2024
Mergers & Acquisitions
What would a Mondi takeover of DS Smith mean? Let’s check the archives
...Box would likely be OK as Mondi is regional CE Europe + Turkey player and does not have box plants in W. Europe countries where SMDS has 20-30% share....
February 8, 2024
In the footsteps of . . .
Across ‘Saxon Switzerland’ in the footsteps of Caspar David Friedrich
...Outside the village of Krippen — where Friedrich lodged during his walks in Saxon Switzerland — our path made a turn at the spot on which he based his painting “Two Men Contemplating the Moon” (c 1825-30...
February 24, 2024
Gardens
Does lunar gardening really work or is it promising the moon?
...“The 2024 Old Farmer’s Almanac”, $9.95; “The Celestial Garden” by Jane Hawley Stevens (Chelsea Green Publishing, £25); “Gardening and Planting by the Moon 2024” by James Lynn Page (W Foulsham & Co, £9.99...
February 16, 2024
FirstFT
FirstFT: Musk promises shareholder vote on Tesla incorporation move
...The luxurious property owned by Italy’s late former prime minister has hosted several world leaders including George W Bush, Tony Blair and Vladimir Putin. Here’s more on the lavish Villa Certosa....
February 1, 2024
US interest rates
Top Fed officials try to damp expectations of imminent rate cuts
Comments come two days after US central bank’s dovish outlook sparked stock and bond rally
December 15, 2023
FirstFT
FirstFT: Donald Trump wins Iowa landslide
...Trump won the largest vote share in a contested Iowa caucus, comfortably beating the 41 per cent won by George W Bush in 2000....
January 16, 2024
US & Canadian companies
The Proxies 2023: Where are they now?
...The Gordon Gekko Company Ranch Award 2023 Winner: W.M. “Rusty” Rush, Rush Company Despite the eye-popping inclusion of allowances for a car, an aircraft, a cell phone and a ranch, W.M....
March 27, 2024
FT Live
Outstanding Directors Exchange
Fostering trust for steadfast leadership
Wednesday, 12 JuneHarvard Club of New York City, West 44th Street, New York, NY, USA
Gardens
How to make your winter garden glow
...At Kew, he has combined several, including the yellow-green stems of Cornus stolonifera Flaviramea; amber C sanguinea Anny’s Winter Orange; red C alba Sibirica; and purple-black C alba Kesselringii....
November 10, 2023
Due Diligence
Downfall of a star fund manager Premium content
...That was before DD’s Robert Smith and FT investigative journalist Cynthia O’Murchu exposed that H2O had poured nearly €1.5bn into Windhorst’s network of rickety ventures back in 2019....
January 23, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The US Supreme Court has helped Donald Trump
...The court could have chosen to hear the oral arguments next week, as Smith requested — and as the urgency of the question demands....
February 29, 2024
HTSI
19 ways to say it with bouclé
...top, €440 Airei wool-mix trousers, £1,045, selfridges.com Pols Potten terry-loop fabric Clover pouf, £255, madeindesign.co.uk The inspiration: Romy Schneider at Coco Chanel’s studio, Paris, c1960 A.W.A.K.E...
January 6, 2024
Due Diligence
The Spac that made Donald Trump rich again Premium content
...and that “S&C knew, or was in a position to know, that FTX was co-mingling customer assets”....
March 27, 2024
Behind the Money podcast20 min listen
Listener mailbag with Martin Wolf & more
...On X, follow Martin Wolf (@martinwolf), Rob Armstrong (@rbrtrmstrng), Robin Wigglesworth (@RobinWigg), Colby Smith (@colbyLsmith) and Guy Chazan (@GuyChazan) Want to see Behind the Money cover a certain...
January 3, 2024
US interest rates
Federal Reserve officials back rate rise pause in September
Hawkish Dallas president says another skip ‘would be appropriate’ as US inflation cools
September 7, 2023
Behind the Money podcast19 min listen
How Microsoft bagged Activision Blizzard
...Clips from Activision Blizzard For further reading: How Brad Smith used Microsoft’s $1bn law and lobbying machine to win Activision battle The newfound influence of the UK’s competition watchdog US v...
October 25, 2023
ReviewNon-Fiction
No Way Out — Tim Shipman on Brexit, Theresa May and the death of a premiership
...Boris Johnson imagines the “paleosceptic” Iain Duncan Smith, a former leader of the Tory party, as an RAF wing commander, flying sorties over Bremen....
April 23, 2024
FT SeriesSix of the best summer boating adventures
Five of the best electric motorboats
...And thanks to the reduction in water friction when foiling, the C-8 uses 80 per cent less energy than conventional boats of the same size....
July 22, 2023

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