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News in-depthCVC Capital Partners Ltd
How CVC struggled to makeover profits at beauty retailer Douglas
...Douglas is named after Scottish entrepreneur John Sharp Douglas, who in 1821 opened a soap factory in Hamburg....
March 10, 2024
US presidential election 2024
‘Nobody is going to beat him’: Trump rides high in Iowa
...“And then he gets in trouble for challenging it,” John added, shaking his head....
December 24, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
The Big Read
The Republicans in Iowa: can anyone really catch Trump?
...only 8.30 on a Saturday morning but more than 100 people were crammed into the back room of Pizza Ranch in Winterset, a small, rural town in Iowa that lays claim to being the birthplace of the film star John...
July 26, 2023
FT Magazine
Why US evangelicals are flocking to Trump
...“There is no doubt that evangelicals still have consternation that [Trump] doesn’t always display the fruits of the spirit — gentleness, kindness,” says Bob Vander Plaats, a social conservative activist...
October 2, 2020
HTSI
How to spend it in . . . Simone Rocha’s guide to Dublin
...Saturday mornings begin with my dad [John Rocha] going out to get the papers and some sausage rolls from the local petrol station. Once fortified, I’ll walk into town....
November 15, 2019
FT Magazine
Inside China’s controversial mission to reinvent the internet
...The manifesto, written in 1996 by John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the American non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a Grateful Dead lyricist, was a call to arms....
March 27, 2020
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
FT SeriesChristmas Gift Guide 2018
Joe and Charlie Casely-Hayford: ‘All men need a trouser press’
...“I grew up in a house where my father would put shoehorns in trainers,” says Charlie, “so a neat pair of slippers like the ones from John Lobb make a great gift.”...
December 6, 2018
News in-depthThe Big Read
AIG: The long struggle to repair its reputation
...Activist investors Carl Icahn and John Paulson agitated for a wholesale break-up of the group as recently as 2016....
June 17, 2018
US politics & policy
Republicans ask how long Trump’s presidential tone can last
...John Weaver, chief strategist for John Kasich during the Ohio governor’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, said that Washington pundits had allowed themselves to be seduced by Mr Trump...
March 1, 2017
US politics & policy
Cruz’s zeal converts Republicans in Iowa
...In an interview John McCain railed against the “sheer hypocrisy” of Mr Cruz who he has previously described as a “wacko bird”....
December 15, 2015
ReviewBooks
An epic told by the man at its centre
...He selects where to put the ashes of Cornelius Vander Starr, the founder of AIG, and builds an 18-hole golf course at his mentor’s country house “in response to requests from guests”....
February 20, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
Stages of love and loss
...A fifth woman appears, starlet Dawn Devonport, who plays the girlfriend in the film about Vander....
July 13, 2012
News in-depthUK banks
How traders trumped Quakers
...In the assistant managers’ lunch room, says Mr Vander Weyer, the meal was still preceded by grace....
July 6, 2012
FT Magazine
The man who knows everything
...Venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife donated $100,000. Microsoft founder Bill Gates took an interest and the Gates Foundation donated $1.5m, and has now committed $4m. Google contributed $2m....
October 28, 2011
European companies
Ahold to focus on growth
...Dick Boer, Ahold’s chief operating officer for Europe, will hand management control of Albert Heijn, the dominant Dutch supermarket chain, to Sander van der Laan in January....
November 6, 2009
FT Live
Transforming the Finance Function with AI
Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making
Thursday, 25 AprilDigital Conference
News in-depthLondon fights for its future
Markets: Ghosts in the machine
...Mr van der Laan says the important thing is that “everyone has the same possibilities for latency” – the speed at which trades can be completed....
February 17, 2010
UK schools
Observer - US
...on Tuesday, Greenberg was presented with a Founders award by the School of Advanced International Studies (Sais) at Johns Hopkins University....
April 18, 2006
World
The Pope votes Yes
..."The treaty has received further backing from French bishops," Riley adds, "and it is inconceivable that if John Paul II felt differently that such public support would be forthcoming....
April 11, 2005
World
Observer - Asia
...An ingenious article posted on the Britain in Europe website claims that the late Pope John Paul II supported the treaty, which increases integration among EU members....
April 11, 2005
Bank bonuses
Observer - US
...The New York attorney-general’s office has dug into some 35-year-old deals that Greenberg, the former AIG chief, is alleged to have made while handling the estate of his mentor, Cornelius Vander Starr....
December 15, 2005
World
Signatories
...Food and Development Policy, US Mohiuddin Ahmad, Chairperson, Asia/Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) Muhammad Hilaluddin, Chief Director, Angikar Bangladesh Foundation, Bangladesh Myriam Vander...
November 14, 2005
World
Quentin Peel: Europe's healthy religious tension
..."We no longer believe it is possible to be as liberal and open as we were, and as free as we were," says Lousewies van der Laan, deputy leader of D66, the social-liberal minority partner in the Dutch government...
April 20, 2005
Business education
China’s lust for business learning
...At Fudan in Shanghai, the money for its building came from the Starr Foundation – the American Cornelius Vander Starr set up his first insurance company in Shanghai in 1955....
July 31, 2005

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