Lisa L. D'Adamo

...“I’d rather pay 20 per cent capital gains tax on an S&P 500 or MSCI Global return than have a tax-free nothing much FTSE 100 return,” said one reader, summing up the views of many....

September 29, 2023

FT SeriesThe HTSI Property issue 2022

Prime property’s movers and shakers

...Offering good value compared to the neighbouring Côte d’Azur, the region also benefits from recent tax changes working in favour of second-home owners....

November 4, 2022

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

Transcript

Transcript: How to sort out your financial life in 2024

...I’d like to see the Lisa cap increase so that people can afford more. 450K isn’t a lot a home in certain parts of the country now, especially if you buy in a couple....

December 26, 2023

The Weekend Essay

Tourists are back. Is it time to tell them to stay away?

...On my last pre-pandemic visit to the museum, I had walked into the room with the “Mona Lisa”, only to hit a ruck of a couple of hundred people taking photographs....

July 15, 2023

Travel

Brescia and Bergamo — rediscovering Italy’s twin treasures

...She stands there, one foot raised, arms stretched out, proffering something lost long ago, staring past me as inscrutable as the Mona Lisa. It feels new to be seeing beauty in Brescia....

October 28, 2022

HTSI

A Gio Ponti pilgrimage in Italy

...“She is so beautiful that I’d love to marry her,” Ponti declared when Pirellone (“Big Pirelli”), as she became known, was completed....

December 3, 2020

FT Live

FTWeekend Festival

Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life

Crossword

Crossword and Polymath competitions suspended

...Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F Browne, New York; Sean Putnam, Wellingborough, UK; Richard Cauman, Knoxville, US Polymath 1,039...

June 5, 2020

News in-depthPersonal & Household Goods

South Korean groups look to take make-up for men mainstream

...I’d argue the US is behind — but not too far back,” said David Yi, founder of US-based male beauty blog Very Good Light....

January 24, 2020

Work & Careers

The biggest gender divide is in mathematics

...(b) For each initial configuration C, let L(C) be the number of operations before Harry stops. For example, L(THT) = 3 and L(TTT) = 0....

September 5, 2019

FT Magazine

Artist Mickalene Thomas: ‘It was always a political statement’

...“I’d embarked on this new endeavour of understanding the presence of this black body on that scale....

August 31, 2018

Kathleen Baird-Murray

Tried and tested — the new beauty influencers

...Some 10 years ago, I remember being proudly shown the new website and social media profile of the make-up artist Lisa Eldridge....

October 5, 2018

Lisa Pollack

The existential questions posed by lab-grown meat

...lisa.pollack@ft.com Twitter: @LSPollack...

March 28, 2017

Life & Arts

Pamper your hamper: essential accessories for a summer picnic

...Harrods sells one in hand-spun pewter by L’Orfèvrerie d’Anjou with a handle in case you need to enjoy your bottle on-the-go. If wine is your preferred tipple, don’t forget the corkscrew....

June 23, 2017

FT MagazineNicholas Lander

The best restaurants of 2016: Nicholas Lander’s guide

...Subsequently, I have been introduced to Lisa Maitland, who runs front of house at Yoshino , a small Japanese restaurant off Piccadilly, just as elegantly....

December 1, 2016

The Art Market

The Art Market: the good, the not so good, and the very, very expensive

...The usually classic Simon Dickinson celebrates Cubism with a re-creation of Léonce Rosenberg’s 1930s “Galerie de l’Effort Moderne”....

October 16, 2015

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

Lunch with the FT

Lunch with the FT: Mikhail Baryshnikov

...The dropped names land as softly and modestly as his fabled tours en l’air as he recalls a one-off performance with Frank Sinatra. “I first met him at a fundraising event....

November 21, 2014

Life & Arts

Hot off the press: Jasper Johns’ art of printing

...He’d been assigned to print images for a planned Johns catalogue raisonné on an offset printer, a device then considered acceptable for high-end books but artistically inferior to a lithographic press....

November 29, 2013

World

The politicians’ search for selfie-esteem

...who shouldst be seen a Goddess among Gods, ador’d and serv’d by Angels numberless, thy daily Train”. Of course, Helle, Barry and Dave are not as bereft of attention as poor Eve was....

December 16, 2013

FT AlphavilleLisa Pollack

“I thought, I thought that was, that was not realistic, you know, what we were doing” – The London Whale

...The concerning part is how easily they resolve to change the marks by up to 1.75bps, which isn’t chump change on positions as large as what they’d built up....

March 22, 2013

FT AlphavilleLisa Pollack

03/23/2012 06:20:09 BRUNO IKSIL, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, says: i did not fail

...credit index trading the CIO was engaging in, here’s a handy table produced by the CIO’s CFO John Wilmot for Jamie Dimon, Douglas Braustein, John Hogan, Ina Drew, and Barry Zubrow (with a host of others cc’d)...

March 19, 2013

FT AlphavilleLisa Pollack

Positioning for credit losses, the JPMorgan way

...Drew responded that there might be additional flexibility on the RWA reduction mandate, and requested a meeting to review the unwind plan to “maximize p [&] l.”30 Maximise P&L, you say? Game on!...

January 22, 2013

FT AlphavilleLisa Pollack

EuriBORE: oh sorry, does this fat finger belong to you?

...For the quote by [Bank 7 Banque et Caisse d'Epargne de l'Etat, Luxembourg] on 3 March 2009, the rate should have been 1.864% instead of 1.866%....

January 14, 2013

FT AlphavilleLisa Pollack

Correlation: the credit trader’s kryptonite

...We’d like to share with you the journey that management at JPMorgan took, as they eventually realised how badly designed the portfolio was....

January 23, 2013

FT AlphavilleLisa Pollack

JPMorgan slapped on wrists by regulators who forget to slap own wrists too. Grrr.

...For example, valuation #fail: Risk management #fail: So, here are some tips and hints for rectifying the failures: IV. (2) (d) Ensure that material differences between risk management, valuation, and...

January 15, 2013

Life & Arts

Reclaim the high notes

...The highest note I’ve sung in concert is a top D flat, and that’s a baroque top D, so the difference between my sung range and Solzi’s range is a semitone....

March 29, 2013

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