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Andrey Kurkov’s The Silver Bone — a Ukrainian saga of crime and war
...His family’s memory of the second world war, which had ended 16 years before his birth, had left its mark (“They killed my grandfather Alexei!”)....
February 29, 2024
News in-depthLegal & General Group PLC
Legal & General faces pivotal moment under new boss
...“It’s a market that at some point will run out,” said Citi’s Baker. “As that whole market matures . . . does [L&G] just become a run-off company?...
December 28, 2023
FT Live
Due Diligence Live
Where leaders in investment and finance meet
Tuesday, 8 OctoberLondon, UK
Boots UK Ltd
Boots offloads £4.8bn pension scheme to Legal & General
...L&G said that it had written £13.4bn of pension transfer business globally so far this year....
November 24, 2023
LexUK retail industry
How Next is hoovering up fashion’s squeezed middle Premium content
...Ted Baker said in a notice to the High Court this week that it intended to call in administrators. It is not alone....
March 22, 2024
FT Magazine
I scream, you scream, the Danes all scream for cream-filled fastelavnsboller
...It’s a festival that used to mark the beginning of the Lent period of fasting, back when Denmark was a Catholic country. Catholicism didn’t stick, but the holiday did....
February 14, 2024
US Treasury bonds
Six spooktacular Halloween charts
...It’s a seasonal tradition for M&G’s Bond Vigilantes blog to share its Halloween round-up of the scariest charts in finance....
October 28, 2023
FT Live
Innovation in Wealth Management Summit
Augmented intelligence for client-centric services
Thursday, 2 May9 Montague Close, London, UK
HTSI
Austin Osman Spare – occultist, avant-gardist and ‘Britain’s first pop artist’
...The definitive biography of Spare by Phil Baker, Austin Osman Spare, The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist, also recalls Hitler inviting Spare to come to Berlin to paint his portrait (Spare refused...
September 28, 2023
Food & Beverage
Smackdown vs raw honey: a sticky situation
...I put that word in quotation marks at the first mention because, as I shall go on to describe, no one is quite clear what it means....
March 1, 2024
Architecture
Are salvaged materials the future of building design?
...“Each mark of age adds a story and gives the building its soul,” he explains....
December 29, 2023
Britain after Brexit
The elephants in the room at the NI investment summit Premium content
...Mark Anderson, chief executive of data software company Alteryx, told BBC radio in Northern Ireland that “I’m going to go back and talk to my team about opportunities to start looking at investing here.”...
October 26, 2023
News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
ICJ’s Israel judgment seeks to restore rule of law to a brutal conflict
...Baker added that Palestinian policy is to delegitimise Israel, using “lawfare” and the UN to damage the country’s standing....
January 27, 2024
Anglo American PLC
BHP-Anglo American: a quick Q&A
...office: In terms of synergies, there are limited clear operational synergies to us, maybe some incountry synergies in Chile, Peru, Australia and Brazil, but the main saving would be through corporate G&...
April 25, 2024
FirstFT
FirstFT: Obama and Clinton back Biden’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza
...Evan Gershkovich: Today marks one year since the Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested by Russia and accused of espionage....
March 29, 2024
ObituaryCarla Bley
Carla Bley, jazz composer and pianist, 1936-2023
...But seeing the trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Gerry Mulligan play in a bar in San Francisco in the early 1950s proved a pivotal moment....
November 4, 2023
Katie Martin
How the humble dividend might rise again
...In 2022, the dire performance of largely low- or zero-dividend stocks provided a boost for investors like Stuart Rhodes, who manages the M&G Global Dividend Fund....
February 7, 2024
FT Live
Evolving retirement strategies in an ever-changing world
What new regulatory developments mean for IFAs
Tuesday, 30 April1 Friday Street, London
Lloyd's of London Ltd
Lloyd’s of London to stay in landmark building until at least 2035
...Currently, the building has an energy rating of E, in an official range where A+ is best and G is worst. It did not disclose the terms of the deal....
December 16, 2023
John Lee
Remote AGMs: the death of shareholder interactions
...Thus, I was horrified to learn what the FTSE 250 listed retailer Marks and Spencer was planning for its 2023 AGM, which took place on Tuesday this week....
July 5, 2023
InterviewLunch with the FT
Investor Nelson Peltz: ‘I’m not trying to fire Bob Iger, I want to help him’
...One black mark was Trian’s $2.5bn bet on US conglomerate General Electric in 2015. “I regret buying GE . . . I was lied to . . . the numbers weren’t real,” says Peltz....
March 22, 2024
Letter
Letter: Shelving plans to improve corporate governance is wrong call
...It makes little sense for the government to require enhanced environmental and social reporting (as they are pressing ahead with), while simultaneously abandoning improvements in the G of ESG....
October 23, 2023
Live news updates from August 15: China cuts key lending rate, US retail sales exceed forecasts
Risers and fallers in Europe
...L&G: Shares in the UK-based insurer slipped 4 per cent despite strong annuity sales after it posted a first-half operating profit of £941mn, down 2 per cent year on year....
August 15, 2023
HTSI
HTSI editor’s letter: it’s the most wonderful issue of the year
...Lastly, my favourite story in this issue celebrates Diwali, which more than a billion people will mark this weekend....
November 11, 2023
Due Diligence
Rishi Sunak loves Blackstone Premium content
...Mark Karasik will focus on asset and wealth managers, and comes from Moelis, DD is first to report....
April 12, 2024
FT Asset Management
Farewell, Jacob Rothschild
...It was not the ideal first set of results for new chief executive Mark FitzPatrick....
March 4, 2024
Special ReportNorth America Innovative Lawyers
How big should a US law firm be? Plus: top 35 innovative firms
...“All the innovation will be from the bottom up,” says Mark Thierfelder, Dechert co-chair. “The people performing tasks on the ground will be figuring out how to unlock [AI]’s value.”...
December 5, 2023
LexJonathan Guthrie
The Lex Newsletter: scapegoating catches sheepish banks on the hoof Premium content
...It is therefore an easy win for owner Mark Zuckerberg, who can probably beat Musk in a cage fight too. Musk is doing better in electric vehicles....
July 7, 2023

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