Hints and tips:
...Gary Stevenson I just became kind of a machine. I think I’m the kind of guy that gets a bit obsessed about the things that he’s doing....
...David Stevenson is an active private investor. He has holdings in Chrysalis, Augmentum, Funding Circle and Nubank. Email: adventurous@ft.com. X: @advinvestor....
...But I’m not about to let that stop me putting out some adventurous investment thoughts for 2024....
...His song of choice is Sinatra’s “My Way” — I’m not surprised....
...David Stevenson is an active private investor. Email: adventurous@ft.com. Twitter: @advinvestor....
...Iliad, admittedly faster growing but as yet barely profitable, would have been valued at 17 times ebitda, estimates Karen Egan at Enders Analysis....
...“I’m sure that there’s a lot of development that doesn’t see the light of day but you’re able because you’re running your own production lines, and you can capture that margin,” said Stevenson....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] John Thornhill I’m John Thornhill, the Financial Times innovation editor, and this is Tech Tonic. The interview you’re going to hear with Karen wasn’t my first....
...The grooming staple I’m never without is Terre d’Hermès, which I was first gifted by South African art dealer Michael Stevenson in my late 20s....
...In the days ahead, he may come face to face with Daniels and Karen McDougal, a former Playboy playmate who also claimed to have had an affair with Trump....
...Not very diplomatic My colleague Lucy Fisher has a great scoop about Rishi Sunak preparing to announce national security adviser Tim Barrow as the next ambassador to the US, replacing Dame Karen Pierce....
...I’m a champion of the growing array of alternative investment trusts focused on providing an income....
...Stevenson describes the success of levelling up as “half and half”....
...Karen Egan, a senior telecoms analyst at Enders Analysis, said Liberty Global had been “very wily” investors in the past but there was “less coherence” to its current investments....
...“I’m surprised when investors are still so nervous about rates staying high,” said Karen Ward, chief markets strategist for Europe at JPMorgan Asset Management....
...I love that Betsey Stevenson found a way to link Ryan Gosling’s hilarious “I’m Just Ken” rendition at the Oscars to male performance in the service economy....
...David Stevenson is an active private investor. Email: adventurous@ft.com. Twitter: @advinvestor...
...“The jury is still out on whether that can turn around,” says Karen Egan, head of telecoms at Enders Analysis....
...And then Karen. Lilah Raptopoulos Right. Karen’s the dumb one. Gretchen is the gossip....
...Leaping fish, cherries and a cockerel are just some of the 40 or so shapes she has picked up over the past decade – but most prized of all is a cat: “That, I’m obsessed with....
...“I think I’m the fan,” he says....
...While the FTSE 100 index has a slightly better yield advantage, Tom Stevenson, investment director at Fidelity, says the FTSE 250 has performed much better over time....
...I am a liberal Democrat who supported Karen Bass when Joe Biden was considering a running mate (“The Kamala Harris question”, Opinion, May 18)....
...I’m not suggesting for a second that Hunt doesn’t understand the damage Brexit has done and the bind it puts the UK in when it comes to attracting trade and investment — I’ve no doubt he’s painfully aware...
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