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Climate change
Climate targets group under fire over Bezos-backed carbon offsets decision
...As it expanded its paid-for validation services, it also raised funds from a series of private philanthropic funds, including Bezos, the Ikea Foundation and the Laudes Foundation....
April 11, 2024
Letter
Letter: When reforming voting, be careful what you wish for
...Reforms may sometimes make things worse — even much worse. Alan HeslopPomona, CA, US...
March 8, 2024
FT Live
Building a Personal Wealth Plan
Capitalising on market shifts and innovations in fintech
Thursday, 18 AprilDigital Conference
LexHelen Thomas
The Lex Newsletter: Brighter days ahead Premium content
...Lex noted that the proliferation of online commerce also makes being a digital tollkeeper, clipping a fee as a credit card payments network, more lucrative....
February 21, 2024
Margaret Heffernan
Why more executive careers should start in a parish council
...It is a legacy most of us want to sustain, and knowing we are tied to history in this way makes life here feel grounded....
April 15, 2024
Special ReportFT Wealth: April
How Asian philanthropists are donating more — but differently
...Nowhere was its determination to make an impact more apparent than in Valenzuela, a city of 620,000 north of Manila, where maths and reading scores were slipping alarmingly....
April 12, 2024
HTSIThe HTSI wedding special 2024
The 10 best bridal beauty buys
...Primers are a wedding-day non-negotiable (for brides and guests alike) to help make-up “grip”....
April 17, 2024
FT Live
Energy Transition Summit
Delivering a stable and efficient clean energy system
Tuesday, 22 OctoberLondon, UK & Online
The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: the Individuality issue
Martin Parr: ‘Fashionistas are good prey for my camera’
...So all the things that I would normally find frustrating, like ‘I wish that person would move along two foot to the right’ go out the door. The challenge is, how do you make an interesting photo?”...
March 30, 2024
LexCorporate governance
A non-profit motive need not be bad for business Premium content
...The foundations’ disproportionate voting power can be a source of friction....
March 31, 2024
News in-depthNovo Nordisk AS
How anti-obesity drugs built the world’s largest charitable foundation
...A century ago the makers of a revolutionary new drug called insulin promised not to make “nasty profits”....
December 26, 2023
The Big Read
Should governments tax the great boomer wealth transfer?
...To leave a legacy. And here you have the government meddling with your legacy.” Willetts agrees with the “noble instinct” for people to wish to provide for their children....
April 15, 2024
Six films to watch this week
Back to Black — no no no to this syrupy Amy Winehouse biopic
...She captures her subject’s speaking voice well enough to make you wish she was delivering better dialogue. (“I don’t care about the fame game!”)...
April 11, 2024
Letter
Letter: UK needs to create a level playing field for investment trusts
...A UK government that is committed to stimulating economic growth should wish to encourage a sector that makes the adoption of “long-termist” attitudes more likely....
April 11, 2024
Special ReportFT Wealth: April
Investing through the eyes of a child
...As a venture capitalist and impact investor, de Jager founded We Share Forward, a non-profit foundation that describes itself as a “revolving fund for impact”....
April 12, 2024
Serbia
Serbia to buy French fighter jets in pivot away from Russia
...While Serbia resented Nato after the US-led military alliance bombed Belgrade in 1999, it now had a “long list of things we wish to buy from the US”, the Serbian official said — though Washington has so...
April 14, 2024
Special ReportFT Wealth: April
The new (radical) rich who can’t wait to give away their fortunes
...This article was amended to make clear Farhad Ebrahimi was heir to his family’s assets before 2006. In this year, he used money passed on to him by his parents to set up a foundation....
April 12, 2024
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
FT Live events coinciding with COP
Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
Venice Biennale 2024
Artist Josèfa Ntjam: ‘AI frees sculpture from the box of the museum’
...“I make my work. I open doors, and people can think what they want.” April 20-November 24, las-art.foundation...
April 13, 2024
ReviewFilm
Wish film review — a cautious Disney fairy tale caught between old and new
...More often, Wish is nervously risk-averse. The remit remains a Catch 22. The movie is so busy referencing the classics, it makes itself an afterthought....
November 23, 2023
Moral Money
‘The whole institution is boiling’: Revolt inside a key climate target group Premium content
...The fund told the FT it didn’t “make decisions” with SBTi and had no involvement in the board’s statement this week....
April 12, 2024
Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
What should I consider when donating to charity?
...Forming such a foundation is a great way for a business to express its social values....
April 17, 2024
UK trade
If a services export collapses in the woods, and nobody hears it for ages, does it make a discourse?
...The article is based on a new report by the Resolution Foundation’s Sophie Hale, which makes the argument that there exists “an antiquated, manufacturing-centric view of how trade affects the economy [that...
February 22, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: Why we need the UN
...doing the same, and a government like China really trying to make itself a market leader in renewable energies....
February 8, 2024
LexIndustrial metals
Europe can still avoid the coming ‘green steel’ crunch Premium content
...In Germany, Thyssenkrupp has secured €2bn, while ArcelorMittal will get a package worth as much as €850mn in France. This may make sense in some locations, but not everywhere....
January 30, 2024
Non-Fiction
Can we really live forever?
...To a large extent, this is because it has been put on a much firmer foundation by many real breakthroughs in genetics and molecular biology during the past half century....
March 26, 2024
Letter
Letter: So far, no intervention has been effective for obesity
...between genetic make-up, early life exposures and environmental factors....
January 17, 2024
ReviewEconomics books
The Unaccountability Machine — why do big systems make bad decisions?
...But with The Unaccountability Machine he provides an elegant new introduction to this intriguing road-not-taken in postwar social science, and makes a compelling case that in the age of AI its time has finally...
April 4, 2024

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