Carl Lee Alred

Activist fund takes aim at South Korean tobacco maker KT&G over dividends

...They seem to think that Carl Icahn is back,” Lee told the Financial Times, referring to a similar campaign by the US financier against KT&G in 2006. “They say they’ll do something some day....

January 18, 2023

Big Tech

‘Here we go’: FTC’s Meta case puts Lina Khan’s vision to the test

...“It’s always hard to predict the future,” said Carl Tobias, law professor at the University of Richmond....

July 29, 2022

FT Live

Due Diligence Live

Where leaders in investment and finance meet

Gardens

A Kew Gardens festival explores sexual diversity in nature

...Much of the binary categorisation of plants stems from Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus’s 1735 study, Systema Naturae, which put in place the classification system still used today....

October 5, 2023

HTSI

There’s money in those old Vogues...

...Current highlights include a 1946 issue featuring work by Erwin Blumenfeld, Cecil Beaton, Lee Miller and Horst, available for £224....

February 16, 2024

InterviewJamie Lee Curtis47 min

Jamie Lee Curtis: a life in acting in a changing Hollywood

...Because I was in the middle of making these other movies, and it's too long, the story of why I found the artist Carl Stevens. But yes, it's being released in July....

May 21, 2023

Renewable energy

Green energy groups step up training to close skills gap

...says Carl Sizer, PwC UK’s head of regions....

August 24, 2023

FT Live

Financial Times @COP

FT Live events coinciding with COP

Investor activism

Boom time for boardroom raiders as activism hits record highs

...The most prolific activist during the first quarter was Align Partners, a small South Korean firm founded by former private equity executive Changhwan Lee....

April 10, 2023

Style

The mysterious disappearance of Kiwi shoe polish

...In 1984, the brand was acquired by the Sara Lee Corporation, the consumer goods company best known for its frozen food....

December 8, 2022

News in-depthTelecoms

Can the UK’s telco giants course correct?

...“Given decades of evidence of value destruction, public markets are understandably quite cynical,” said Carl Murdock-Smith, an analyst at Berenberg....

May 29, 2023

News in-depthRenewable energy

The humble heat pump blows a green wave across Europe

...“There’s a clear correlation between low electricity prices and high heat pump uptake,” said Charlotte Lee, at the UK’s Heat Pump Association....

August 7, 2023

The Art Market

New-look Art Basel team finds Miami director

...These included the likes of The Hole (New York, Los Angeles), Carl Kostyál (London, Stockholm) and Stems Gallery (Brussels, Paris)....

July 20, 2023

FirstFT

FirstFT: Icahn’s bearish bet cost $9bn

...Sign up to hear from leading FT journalists in conversation with Hillary Clinton, Jamie Lee Curtis, Salman Rushdie and others. Who will win the US-China tech war?...

May 19, 2023

X Corp

Twitter covered up security flaws and fake accounts, says whistleblower

...“Zatko’s allegations do seem to resemble some of the issues that Musk has raised about why he no longer wants to purchase Twitter,” said Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond’s law school...

August 23, 2022

Due Diligence

Another pay drama starring Andrea Orcel Premium

...Among the loudest critics was activist investor Carl Icahn: “The Buffett deal was like taking candy from a baby,” the billionaire investor guffawed....

February 28, 2023

The Oscars 2023: all you need to know

Oscar-nominated directors: ‘Everything Everywhere’ and ‘Triangle of Sadness”

...And he explores that through Carl and Yaya....

January 27, 2023

FT Live

TNW Conference 2024 - The Next Web

Europe’s leading tech event for corporates, startups, investors and governments

Camilla Cavendish

The time has come to purge the rot from Scotland Yard

...It spent years pursuing allegations of sex crimes made by the fantasist Carl Beech, cheered on by the MP Tom Watson, against men such as the war hero Lord Bramall....

July 1, 2022

Summer Books 2022

Best summer books of 2022: Politics

...Instead, they argue, leaders like Viktor Orbán and the late Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, “conceal autocracy within formally democratic institutions”....

June 24, 2022

Meta Platforms

Facebook bans Trump for at least two years

...“The two-year suspension could seriously impair Trump’s efforts to remain relevant politically for 2024,” said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond....

June 4, 2021

FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020

Best books of 2020: Literary non-fiction

...Tom Stoppard: A Life, by Hermione Lee, Faber, RRP£30, 992 pages Lee’s encyclopedic and sympathetic authorised life captures the genius and charisma of one of our greatest contemporary playwrights....

November 20, 2020

Due Diligence

Meet private equity’s king of SaaS Premium

...The firm, co-founded by billionaires Orlando Bravo and Carl Thoma, has morphed from a niche player with just $3.6bn in assets into a powerhouse with over $91bn under management in the span of a decade....

December 8, 2021

Due Diligence

‘The fool doth think he is wise’ Premium

...It was one of the last big takeovers put together by Dimon’s favoured dealmaker Jimmy Lee before his sudden death in 2015....

November 2, 2021

Sun Records

Sun Records cashes in with sale to Primary Wave

...The catalogue includes some of the best known rock and roll songs of all time including “Great Balls of Fire” by Jerry Lee Lewis, “I Walk the Line” by Johnny Cash and “Blue Suede Shoes” by Carl Perkins....

January 28, 2021

Music

Why protest music is marching to a different beat

...The track, says Carl Loben, editor of DJ magazine, was seen as a form of virtual protest, reaching number one at the height of coronavirus lockdowns when street demonstrations were prohibited....

April 8, 2021

Special ReportSingapore: Charting The Future

Singapore charts its way to digital future for trade

...Carl Wegner, chief executive, says the company — whose investors include banks Citigroup, Standard Chartered, Bangkok Bank and DBS — chose Singapore as its base in part because “there is a considerable amount...

September 27, 2020

The Aesthete

Kean Etro: ‘We basically turned paper into trees’

...The last album I bought was by Rickie Lee Jones, who started out singing in bars and coffee houses, and always sounds so sophisticated....

June 10, 2021

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