ERIC G. SIGMON

FirstFT: Israel launches attacks against Iran

...New York mayor Eric Adams said the police had made 108 arrests. Columbia also suspended students who had occupied part of its main campus for more than 30 hours....

April 19, 2024

InterviewFilm

Film producers Working Title: ‘Every movie still comes down to: cover your nuts and jump’

...Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner don’t do many interviews, but the last one they recall enjoying was also with the FT. When was that? “Mid 1990s?” Fellner says. The timeframe adds up....

May 4, 2023

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

HTSI

Cult Shop: the Bedfordshire tailor loved by Eric Morecambe, Michael Bublé and Lenny Henry

...After the customary cappuccino or G&T mixed with local Bucks Brothers Gin, and some time exploring the warren of rooms, clients start to feel very much at home in the Souster & Hicks kingdom....

March 10, 2023

Q&AThe Questionnaire

Novelist Tan Twan Eng: ‘There are a number of people I have no desire to meet again’

...Name your favourite river.In music, it’s “River of Tears” by Eric Clapton. The waltzy and elegiac opening bars go on for about two minutes before he even starts to sing....

June 3, 2023

ReviewFilm

Knock at the Cabin — compelling idea buried in shoddiness

...The story is adapted from Paul G Tremblay’s well-regarded horror novel The Cabin at the End of the World, and the borrowed structure and rhythm offset a cabbage patch of plot holes....

February 2, 2023

Fox Corporation

Murdoch predicted ‘riots like never before’ if 2020 US election was overturned

...“Seems Rudy G giving Trump lots of bad advice.” Ahead of the election, Murdoch contacted Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, with advice on the then-president’s advertising campaign....

March 8, 2023

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

Markets InsightEric Lonergan

The volatility virus strikes again

...The writer is a fund manager at M&G and author of ‘Supercharge Me: Net Zero Faster’ Whatever one’s view of the UK government’s so called “mini-Budget”, the bond market crash last week exaggerated its significance...

October 4, 2022

Markets InsightEric Lonergan

Can the ECB prevent a second euro crisis?

...The writer is a fund manager at M&G and author of ‘Supercharge Me: Net Zero Faster’ The European Central Bank’s emergency meeting last Wednesday was a remarkable event....

June 21, 2022

Education

Yale and Harvard law schools spark exodus from influential rankings

...Letter in response to this article: Why Ivy League schools ditch legal rankings system / From Matthew G Andersson, Oak Brook, IL, US...

November 17, 2022

FT Asset Management

Ken Griffin crowned king of the hedgies

...The change at the top comes after a year of extremes for the sector, write Laurence Fletcher and Eric Platt....

January 23, 2023

Transcript

The billionaire charged with insider trading

...Special thanks to Laura Clarke, Alastair Mackie, John Schnaars, Eric Sandler and Jess Truglia....

July 27, 2023

Music

The best summer music festivals worldwide

...Stormzy headlines alongside The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Haim, with strong supporting acts Jayda G and singer-songwriters Angel Olsen and Tove Lo....

May 30, 2023

Global inflation

Inflation is not the only demon

...And earlier this week, M&G Investments’ Eric Lonergan predicted that the second euro crisis has now started....

June 16, 2022

Unhedged

European debt: risk before reward Premium

...As Eric Lonergan of M&G summed up in Monday’s FT: Sovereign spread targeting by a central bank has never been done before....

June 22, 2022

FirstFT

FirstFT: Banks undergo stress tests as recession looms

...Investors will deduce the central bank’s point of intolerance from intervention, writes Eric Lonergan, fund manager at M&G....

June 21, 2022

FT Live

Global Banking Summit

The world's top gathering of leaders in finance

FT Magazine

I tried to buy a Rolex and fell into a grey market for luxe watches

...Rolex doesn’t market to teens, but when Gen Z age-out of buying Casio G-Shock watches, Knight says there’s a risk they won’t be interested in buying a Rolex at all....

December 23, 2022

Vaccitech

Biotech behind AstraZeneca vaccine aims to raise $117m at IPO

...The company recently raised $168m from investors including M&G Investment Management, Chinese company Tencent and Gilead Sciences, a California-based biotech....

April 26, 2021

UK economy

UK credit rating downgraded by Moody’s

...“Despite the projected recovery, we estimate a sharper peak-to-trough contraction for the UK than for any other G-20 economy,” she said....

October 17, 2020

Markets InsightKatie Martin

Revival of bonds as buffer for market shocks

...Eric Lonergan, a macro hedge fund manager at M&G Investments, said he has been adding US 30-year debt to his portfolio, as it now offered “room for diversification"....

April 19, 2021

US equities

Investors pile into tech stocks and Treasuries as ‘blue wave’ trade unravels

...Jim Leaviss, chief investment officer of public fixed income at M&G, said that the slim chance of the Democrats taking the Senate meant that additional heavy-hitting fiscal stimulus was less likely to emerge...

November 4, 2020

News in-depthCoronavirus economic impact

Britons prepare to spend their savings as lockdown eases

...There has to be some of that,” said Eric Lonergan, a macro hedge fund manager at M&G Investments in London. “But whether we come out of this with renewed risk appetite or with additional caution . . ....

April 12, 2021

Due Diligence

Credit Suisse tries to rein in Casino Suisse Premium

...“You are part of New York,” Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams assured wealthy New Yorkers one recent morning....

April 7, 2021

Corporate choices: emerging from coronavirus

The ‘retail bros’ betting on a quick market recovery

...“The test is how resilient the market is to a price reversal,” says Eric Lonergan, a macro fund manager at M&G Investments. Mr Portnoy claimed in his daily online broadcast on Thursday to be unfazed....

June 12, 2020

News in-depthEmerging markets

China strikes debt deals with poor nations under G20 scheme

...offered to other DSSI-eligible countries, and could set a longer-term precedent on the country’s willingness to relieve major borrowers of their debts, said Greg Smith, emerging markets strategist at M&G...

August 30, 2020

Markets InsightEric Lonergan

European Central Bank has one item left in its toolkit: dual rates

...The writer is a macro hedge fund manager at M&G Investments in London...

January 2, 2020

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