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Fund management
Oxford’s £6bn endowment fund hit by staff exodus
...David Harling, investment director since 2014, also quit last month, while two investment managers, Will Tomsett and Shivani Oberoi, left earlier this year....
August 26, 2022
LexLego
Lego’s corporate model is key to its brick-by-brick success Premium content
...The proliferation of parts contributed to Lego’s downturn in 2003, says academic David Robertson....
March 24, 2024
FT Live
Africa Summit
Africa in a complex world
Tuesday, 29 OctoberLondon, UK
ReviewNon-Fiction
Buying Silence — David Hooper on the cost of free speech
...Veteran media lawyer David Hooper promises to reveal how the rich and powerful use the law to gag their critics....
November 24, 2023
ObituaryJacob Rothschild
Jacob Rothschild, financier and philanthropist, 1936-2024
...RIT seeded hedge fund Lansdowne Partners, asset manager GAM and Getty Images, and invested in Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management....
February 29, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Tinariwen: Amatssou — an angry album full of betrayal
...What would Tinariwen, the famously implacable Tuareg guitar band, sound like if they recorded with Daniel Lanois, the man behind shimmering widescreen productions for, among others, Bob Dylan, U2, Robbie Robertson...
May 22, 2023
FT Asset Management
Farewell, Jacob Rothschild
...RIT seeded hedge fund Lansdowne Partners, asset manager GAM and Getty Images, and invested in Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management....
March 4, 2024
FT Live
Financial Adviser Service Awards 2024
Who gives you 5 star service?
Thursday, 21 NovemberNatural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
Nigeria
End to Nigeria currency peg causes biggest fall in naira’s history
...Charlie Robertson, head of macro strategy at FIM Partners, an asset management firm, said a devaluation would not necessarily lead to a surge in prices, as most of the economy already operated at the parallel...
June 14, 2023
The Big Read
Lego: can the brick behemoth rival Disney?
...“Lego is less about brick-based construction and more about being a talent agency for mini-figures,” says David Robertson, author of the leading book on the company, Brick by Brick....
October 16, 2023
FT Asset Management
George Iacobescu’s footprint on London
...The biggest names in hedge fund land used to be names such as Tiger Management’s late founder Julian Robertson, Lansdowne Partners’s Pete Davies or Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn....
February 12, 2024
FT MagazineJancis Robinson
Global warming is a problem for South African wine. Cape Agulhas may be the answer
...They were helped and encouraged by Abrie Bruwer of the much more established Springfield Estate in Robertson, 50 miles over the mountains to the north....
October 7, 2023
Koch Industries Inc
Koch Industries appoints co-CEO from outside namesake family
...Koch later sold its business in Russia, Robertson said last July....
March 2, 2023
Style
Menswear embraces dramatic new lengths
...Long leather coats evoked David Bowie in Berlin circa 1976....
October 23, 2023
LexLego
Lego/IPO: more welcoming to day- trippers than investors Premium content
...Academic David Robertson sees this as part of a broader emulation of Disney’s early days. This involves creating characters and stories that are monetised via multiple channels....
April 7, 2023
ReviewNon-Fiction
Command by Lawrence Freedman — the politics of the battlefield
...In this context Freedman quotes David Richards, a former British chief of defence and a commander of all Nato forces in Afghanistan, saying that the modern commander must be an “entrepreneurial networker...
October 12, 2022
Government of Scotland
Scotland’s new first minister rewards allies with cabinet appointments
...Angus Robertson, who served under Sturgeon as constitution secretary, retains the same post in Yousaf’s cabinet....
March 29, 2023
FT Live
Innovation in Wealth Management Summit
Augmented intelligence for client-centric services
Thursday, 2 May9 Montague Close, London, UK
Menswear
The men who wear shorts all winter
...And menswear, according to Robertson, lacks options. “Women get clearly different styles but there’s not enough variety [of trouser silhouettes] for us,” says Robertson....
January 20, 2023
HTSIHTSI autumn travel special
Sonia Cheng: ‘The key is to design a hotel that doesn’t feel like a hotel’
...Weeks before we meet, Cheng signed a deal to take over the three award-winning Robertson Lodges in New Zealand....
October 25, 2023
David Stevenson
Focus on emerging markets’ long-term winners
...David Stevenson is an active private investor. Email: adventurous@ft.com. Twitter: @advinvestor...
July 5, 2022
David Pilling
Ghana faces rude awakening as the tide of cheap money recedes
...david.pilling@ft.com...
December 1, 2022
Archegos Capital Management
Archegos employees face $500m losses from crashed bonus fund
...*This article has been amended to correct the name of Julian Robertson’s firm...
August 4, 2021
David Pilling
What Bangladesh can teach others about development
...david.pilling@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Modernisation can hold some unpleasant truths / From Anirban Pal, London WC1, UK...
July 28, 2022
News in-depthDemographics and population
Niger questions wisdom of sustaining world’s highest birth rate
...“Countries with high fertility rates never get rich,” said Charles Robertson, chief economist at Renaissance Capital and author of The Time Travelling Economist....
September 20, 2022
Hedge funds
Citadel breaks records with $16bn profit
...Most striking was the 56 per cent loss suffered by Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global, the most famous of the so-called “Tiger cub” funds spawned from legendary investor Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management....
January 23, 2023
Jacinda Ardern
Jacinda Ardern to stand down as New Zealand PM
...Grant Robertson, the deputy prime minister and an obvious successor to Ardern, immediately ruled himself out of the running....
January 19, 2023
African economy
Turbulence in Nigeria dollar market hits airlines and investors
...But Charlie Robertson of Renaissance Capital said the central bank may only be delaying the inevitable....
September 19, 2022

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