Jaron D Perkins

...From the UK selection, I’d pick out Bunzl, chiefly because of my colleague Oliver Ralph’s inclusion of the packaging and distribution business in his wry analysis of the “magnificently unglamorous” seven...

April 21, 2024

Investments

Investors’ Chronicle: Unite Group, Travis Perkins, Reckitt Benckiser

...RBC Capital Markets analysts said that “increased R&D spend, the absence of negative one-offs and market share momentum add conviction that underlying performance is improving at Reckitt”....

March 3, 2023

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

US economy

Desperately seeking soft landing

...Alphavillain-turned-megacorp-podcaster Tracy Alloway posed a great question last week:https://twitter.com/tracyalloway/status/1669304875887337474 The answers — as you’d expect in economics, or at least...

June 20, 2023

HTSI

The American luxury lifestyle brand storming the Cotswolds

...I remember we’d go to each other’s rooms just to look at the décor.” Hempel says she’s put together a “multi-piece collection” representing her design vision – past, present and future....

June 2, 2023

Law

Slapp-happy law firms come under pressure from regulator

...“I didn’t set up [think-tank] Tax Policy Associates to campaign on libel law, but I felt I’d blundered into something that was so wrong I should have a go at helping to fix it.”...

December 2, 2022

The Week Ahead

Springing forward

...If you want some idea of a way forward, I’d recommend the Weekend essay on what the Cold War taught us about containing Russia....

February 26, 2023

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

The Big Read

Peak inflation? The new dilemma for central banks

...This, he said, “justifie[d] a further forceful monetary policy response”....

December 16, 2022

Merryn Somerset Webb

An energy shock and high inflation: are the 1970s reborn?

...I’d argue that workers will rebuild their bargaining power pretty quickly in the face of CPI inflation hitting 10 per cent....

March 11, 2022

ReviewFilm

Jessica Chastain turns televangelist in campy biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye

...Already telling any flock in earshot that God does not want us to be poor, the fame-hungry Bakker is played by Andrew Garfield, never more a ringer for Anthony Perkins in Psycho....

February 3, 2022

Derivative exchanges

Did a major financial institution kinda maybe slightly default in March 2020?

...Chris is Chris Perkins, the president of crypto outfit Coinfund (and running Citi’s clearing unit in the pandemic turmoil)....

May 27, 2022

HTSI

In praise of Australian Aboriginal art – ‘the oldest surviving culture in the world’

...A few months later, just before the pandemic took hold, Australian fine art dealer D’Lan Davidson arrived in New York and mounted a sale of work by her and other desert painters that achieved more than $3m...

January 28, 2022

FT CollectionsTech Exchange

Vinod Khosla: AI and climate investors can help western values win out

...In 2007-08, if you’d said people would just let a stranger into their house, into their spare bedroom . . . give me a break!...

June 30, 2022

FT CollectionsTech Exchange

Ifeoma Ozoma: My experience taught me tech workers must be Silenced No More

...Salesforce was one of the ones that I’m most proud of because they really operated in the way that you’d hope a company would: where the company’s stated values meet the actual bureaucracy of moving something...

August 1, 2022

Best FT Weekend interviews of 2021

My trip into the metaverse with Facebook defender-in-chief Nick Clegg

...To quote Microsoft computer scientist Jaron Lanier, Meta’s vision of the metaverse has so far not resolved “basic issues of geometry”. Clegg is undeterred....

December 16, 2021

The Week Ahead

Prepare to go green

...The drip feed of advance announcements has already begun, partly to dull the pain of reneging on previous commitments — such as R&D spending — to meet Sunak’s fiscal targets....

October 24, 2021

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

Investor activism

Activists eye targets in weak and vulnerable corporate UK

...UK companies cited by investors and analysts as potential targets include Travis Perkins, the builders’ merchant, and outsourcing company Serco....

January 7, 2021

LombardBryce Elder

Struggling landlords need a champion, not Wetherspoons chairman

...But Homebase competes with the likes of Next’s homeware departments as well as Dunelm, Howdens Joinery and Wickes, whose split from Travis Perkins has been delayed by Covid....

November 11, 2020

FT SeriesDesign special

Ini Archibong: ‘I created my own version of success’

...On the weekends, we’d go to church and dress in traditional clothes. We kind of led this double life as Nigerians and as black American kids.”...

June 1, 2021

The Big Read

The demise of the dollar? Reserve currencies in the era of ‘going big’

...And as Dario Perkins, head of global macroeconomics of TSLombard, points out, the leadership of the global economy does not change hands often....

May 25, 2021

Equities

Markets Now - Wednesday 8th April 2020

...We keep our preference for LHN, CRH and KSP, and remain cautious on HEI and TPK which we d/g to relative UW....

April 8, 2020

Architecture

Construction — a site for sore eyes

...He points me towards the Instagram feed of a builder he often works with, John Perkins: “He posts a concrete pour and it’s incredible to watch.”...

July 8, 2020

News in-depthThe Big Read

Will the UK axe private equity tax break worth millions?

...“It’s easy to say these people make a lot of money, so why shouldn’t they pay some more tax on it, but I’d rather they were here earning money and paying some tax than not here [at all].”...

November 9, 2020

FT Swamp Notes

Indentured no more

...Your feedback We'd love to hear from you....

November 4, 2019

InterviewWork & Careers

Former Weinstein assistant speaks out against harassment and NDAs

...“When I read it I was horrified — and I’d signed the document. So it’s just appalling. And to me it smacks of a smoking gun....

November 4, 2019

FT Magazine

An extinct bird, Nazi speeches: the race to save historic recordings

...He’d made his first tape only two years earlier, in the Brazilian Amazon, where he’d gone to look for so-called owl monkeys....

April 24, 2020

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