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Visual Arts
John Chamberlain’s car-crush sculptures deserve a second look
...Fischer calls it “the young-genius, old-master room”, or maybe “the young-master, old-genius room” — he can’t decide....
February 6, 2024
ReviewFilm
The Blackening — horror spoof has fun with African-American comedy tropes
...But, as an extended joke about the predictability of a genre, it can’t help being predictable....
August 24, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Transcript
Well, actually: Our ‘Dumb Money’ movie review
...Not to mention the investors in this hedge fund who broke one of the most important rules of finance, which is don’t give your money to something called Melvin....
September 21, 2023
ReviewFilm
Dumb Money — GameStop short-selling comedy hedges its bets
...To say Dumb Money is a mess is not to say it isn’t likeably propulsive — despite mostly involving people on their phones — or doesn’t include many smart and funny moments....
September 21, 2023
Hedge funds
PFOF and its discontents
...Citadel the hedge fund’s stake in Melvin Capital? This is bizarre for many reasons. First, it doesn’t make sense to say Citadel Securities would want people to stop trading GameStop shares....
September 15, 2023
InterviewFilm
GameStop: from YouTube to Wall Street to Hollywood in Dumb Money
...Here, Seth Rogen plays Gabe Plotkin, founder of hedge fund Melvin Capital, which by 2021 had spent years shorting GameStop by betting against the struggling business....
September 15, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc
Investors spend $200mn on ‘worthless’ Bed Bath & Beyond shares
...“We can’t have a debate about the value of Bed Bath & Beyond because we know what that value is.”...
July 4, 2023
Transcript
‘Dumb Money’ writers on the GameStop saga
...He didn’t say it, but he typed it....
October 18, 2023
The Aesthete
Entrepreneur Mandy Madden Kelley talks personal taste
...I can’t give it up. There’s a place in LA called Vito’s Pizza; it’s just a hole in the wall, but you’re guaranteed the best pizza. You can buy a whole one or just a slice. 846 N....
November 18, 2022
Carson Block
Post-Brexit UK should pursue short-selling reforms to boost markets
...It seems that the rule was a product of thinking best illustrated by Elon Musk’s tweet: “u can’t sell houses u don’t own u can’t sell cars u don’t own but u *can* sell stock u don’t own!?...
March 23, 2023
News in-depthHedge funds
Melvin Capital’s U-turn reignites debate over hedge fund fees
...“Imagine if a venture capital firm paid itself a billion in incentive fees when WeWork momentarily hit $47bn, and didn’t give a penny back later? Welcome to hedge fund land,” he said....
April 27, 2022
ReviewVisual Arts
Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Paintings
...In the end, though, he couldn’t prevent his energy from burning through the bars he put up to contain it....
March 1, 2023
FT SeriesThe HTSI Property issue 2022
Peter Marino: ‘It might be easier to talk about what I don’t collect’
...I didn’t have technology the first 50 years of my life, and I definitely don’t need it in the last 50. In another life, I would have been a great patron of the arts in ancient Greece, around 450BC....
November 4, 2022
FT Magazine
Roald Dahl, rewrites and the truth about ‘sensitivity readers’
...I spoke to the British author Melvin Burgess, a winner of the Carnegie Medal who has written 25 novels for children and adults, often dealing with controversial subjects like addiction and underage sex....
April 14, 2023
Transcript
Investing’s cults of personality
...Probably not to people who don’t follow the industry. He’s been relatively media shy. He doesn’t do a lot of press, but he was widely known as one of the best performing hedge fund managers....
May 26, 2022
FT Live
Transforming the Finance Function with AI
Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making
Thursday, 25 AprilDigital Conference
InterviewMusic
Soul survivors from Motown’s golden age
...At that time it was David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin and myself. And it was like something said, ‘Oh, these are the guys that’s gonna make history.’...
August 30, 2022
FT Magazine
What happened when I bet on the horses exactly how the AI told me to
...“I don’t discuss it with people,” he said. “Why is that important?” Sophisticated, well-capitalised horseplayers aren’t brand new....
March 30, 2023
ReviewFilm
Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 — American film history through a new lens
...2003 film installation Baltimore, located in the museum’s Warner Bros gallery, is presented in conjunction with Regeneration and serves as a complementary homage to writer, director, producer and actor Melvin...
August 27, 2022
Due Diligence
Tiger Global gets mauled by the bear market Premium content
...But things haven’t gotten any better. Melvin has lost a further 20.6 per cent in the first quarter of this year....
May 5, 2022
Tiger Global Management LLC
Tiger is suffering one of the biggest hedge fund drawdowns in history
...This was the problem that Melvin Capital’s Gabe Plotkin tried to solve when he last month said his hedge fund would eject investors from its fund before letting them reinvest in a new one....
May 4, 2022
Due Diligence
Death of the master stockpicker Premium content
...Coleman isn’t the only star manager whose shine has been dulled by the tech sell-offs....
May 19, 2022
Investing in funds
Pimco and the end of the bond bull market
...“I just don’t know how long it is going to take.”...
May 23, 2022
FirstFT
FirstFT: Reality bites for US retailers
...“We don’t expect to see any meaningful reduction in global supply chain pressures until 2023 at the earliest,” said Mike Fiddelke, Target chief financial officer....
May 19, 2022
FT Asset Management
Baillie Gifford’s Renaissance man
...Is it right that you don’t actually support countries spending on defending themselves?”...
April 25, 2022
FT Asset Management
Divergent views on China’s investment landscape
...Don’t expect this issue to go away anytime soon....
May 2, 2022

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