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Investing in funds
Sales of climate-focused mutual funds fall 75% in two years
...The S&P/TSX Renewable Energy & Clean Technology index fell by almost 37 per cent between the end of 2021 and 2023....
January 28, 2024
The Weekend Essay
AI keeps going wrong. What if it can’t be fixed?
...Winston Churchill (while his full name does not have two “t”s, his last name does) 3. Tony Blair 4....
April 6, 2024
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
Unhedged
Shopping for commercial real estate Premium content
...Marcus and Moriarity both like “necessity retail”, meaning high-traffic supermarkets in well-off suburbs. These have the appeal of acyclicality; people keep going to the grocery store in a recession....
January 18, 2024
News updates from November 28: Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger dies, Dollar hits 3-month low after Fed official signals end to rate rises
European equities fall again
...European equities opened lower on Tuesday, deepening a drop on Monday that Marcus Widén, an economist at SEB, said should “primarily be seen as a necessary breather after a very strong month”....
November 28, 2023
Thames Water
Thames Water crisis prompts jitters over ‘gold standard’ debt model
...S&P this month downgraded Thames Water’s top-ranked class A debt to BBB-, the bottom rung of investment-grade, just one notch above junk....
April 23, 2024
LexJonathan Guthrie
The Lex Newsletter: workplaces in Hell Premium content
...I also enjoyed Negro with a Hat, Colin Grant’s masterly biography of the black civil rights leader Marcus Garvey. He was a hopeless administrator....
November 10, 2023
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
ESG investing
S&P drops ESG scores from debt ratings amid scrutiny
...Marcus Moore, a portfolio manager for Osterweis in San Francisco, said he does not pay much attention to specific ESG credit scores from rating agencies and that the numbers should not be a deciding factor...
August 8, 2023
HTSIThe Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more
Burna Boy is an ‘African Giant’. He wants to be even bigger
...Which of course, to many, he is. 2020’s Twice As Tall featured collaborations with Stormzy, Youssou N’Dour and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and would win him his first Grammy, again in the best global music...
February 21, 2024
ReviewAlbums
BlankFor.ms, Moran & Gilmore: Refract — an absorbing jazz-meets-electronica set
...Titled Refract, its heart is a freewheeling weave of ad-libbed tape loops arranged by Gilmore, Jason Moran’s acoustic piano and Marcus Gilmore drums....
September 1, 2023
Global trade
Houthi attacks on vessels in Red Sea sound alarm for global trade
...Marcus Baker, head of marine at insurance broker Marsh, said some insurers had already increased rates during the week before Sunday’s Red Sea attacks, in one case by as much as 300 per cent....
December 5, 2023
ReviewMusic
English National Opera’s Iolanthe combines pantomime, satire and knockabout comedy
...Earl of Mountararat — with newcomers Catherine Wyn-Rogers, a warm-voiced Queen of the Fairies, and G&S specialist John Savournin as the Lord Chancellor....
October 6, 2023
Arts
Films, theatre, art and music to look forward to in 2024
...Across its two New York sites in the coming year will be the prolific Steve McQueen, with a new sound-and-light piece upstate in Dia Beacon (Marcus Miller and other hot musical names collaborate) and his...
December 25, 2023
Capital markets
Double dipping: not just for crudités
...Since then the retailer has been grappling with a high debt burden, freight-cost inflation and sliding revenue, according to S&P Ratings....
October 26, 2023
Markets
Wall Street stocks rally after jobs data point to robust US economy
...The Wall Street benchmark S&P 500 rose 1.5 per cent to its highest level since August, marking its third straight week of gains with a 1.8 per cent increase....
June 2, 2023
US economy
How is the US economy managing to power ahead of Europe?
...“There’s definitely an investment renaissance in the US right now,” said Paul Gruenwald, chief economist at S&P Global Ratings....
October 19, 2023
FT Live
Financial Adviser Service Awards 2024
Who gives you 5 star service?
Thursday, 21 NovemberNatural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
Fintech
N26’s top executives warned co-founders over ‘dysfunctional’ leadership
...The supervisory board is chaired by Marcus Mosen, a payments industry veteran and early investor in N26....
March 7, 2023
N26
How Germany’s top fintech is struggling to grow up
...The bank in late 2022 introduced a supervisory board led by Marcus Mosen — a payments industry veteran and early N26 investor....
April 20, 2023
Pound Sterling
Is sterling spent?
...Bloomberg’s Marcus Ashworth (no relation, afawk) similarly spies danger. He wrote in a column yesterday that “a Wile E....
August 22, 2023
Letter
Letter: Austrians face a dilemma familiar to US Republicans
...In your piece discussing the convergence of political parties in Austria, you quote Marcus How, head of research at political risk consultancy VE Insight, asking, “Why would voters go for the copycats and...
January 16, 2023
The Big Read
Downfall of the judge who dominated US bankruptcy
...However, he was also well-known for two memorable verbal fusillades launched during the 2020 bankruptcy hearings for department store chain Neiman Marcus, perhaps the most sensational case that landed in...
November 21, 2023
InterviewLunch with the FT
Chef Michel Roux Jr: ‘Day one of my life, I was in the kitchen’
...Roux, who has presented several cookery programmes and starred as a judge on MasterChef: The Professionals and, most recently, Channel 4’s Five Star Kitchen, isn’t militaristic in the manner of some of his...
November 10, 2023
LexCorporate bonds
Risk-free rates: easing credit conditions clash with safe returns Premium content
...Its high-yield Marcus saving account is offering an interest rate of 3.3 per cent. Financial conditions have eased. Inflation metrics are beginning to look favourable....
January 10, 2023
Lex PopuliUS & Canadian companies
Profit warnings: when bad news really matters
...By 2021, wealth management alone accounted for nearly a third of after-tax profits for Morgan Stanley, triple the proportion of 2010, according to S&P Capital IQ....
January 20, 2023
US inflation
US inflation cools slightly in January
...With inflation falling, but at a much more gradual pace than on the way up, the opportunity for [a] policy mis-step is greater,” said Marcus Brookes, chief investment officer at Quilter Investors....
February 14, 2023
UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
Why own stocks? Premium content
...Less noted is the fact that it has outperformed Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and the S&P 500. An activist might make money in Goldman, but I have to think there must be softer targets out there....
March 2, 2023

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