Mike C. Matson

January 2, 2024

No more ‘Big IT’: the failed 90s model has ruined too many lives

...In Canada, the 15-year long Phoenix public payroll system fiasco, initiated in 2009, has wrongly paid thousands of public servants, cost over C$2bn, 10 times its initial cost, and has been described by the...

January 19, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

News in-depthCanada

Canada limits international student numbers after backlash over rising rents

...Average home prices in Toronto and Vancouver are above C$1mn....

February 5, 2024

ReviewAlbums

BlankFor.ms, Moran & Gilmore: Refract — an absorbing jazz-meets-electronica set

...“Tape Loops B & C” are continuous improvisations which, divided into multiple parts, most capture the feel and spontaneity of a tight-working band....

September 1, 2023

High yield bonds

Recession fears in Europe punish risky borrowers with higher yields

...It’s likely that Europe is in recession, or very close to it, and that has been the case since really the third quarter of this year,” said Mike Scott, head of global high-yield and credit opportunities...

December 20, 2023

FT GlobetrotterSport and the city: Vancouver’s outdoors and more

The Big Fore: a golfing getaway on Vancouver Island

...To make a token effort at objectivity, I asked two old golf chums, Jeff Bishop and Mike Martin, to help me compile a list of Victoria’s five most enjoyable golf courses....

March 5, 2024

FT Live

Finance Disrupted at TNW Conference

Shaking The Foundations Of Finance | Formerly Future of Finance

Wellbeing and fitness

Professionals find their competitive streak in group fitness challenges

...Despite Mike’s flying schedule, he is pleased to have kept up his training, completing a solid workout in Chennai a few days before....

February 11, 2024

HTSI

10 things to see, eat and buy in April

...BID Art on a Postcard x War Child Art on a Postcard, the charity founded to raise funds for the Hepatitis C Trust, is dedicating its next auction of 4in-by-6in artworks to War Child, which provides aid...

April 1, 2024

UK property

Landlords struggle to future-proof UK’s historic commercial properties

...Mike Edwards, director at engineering firm Arup, said some owners could achieve 15 to 20 per cent energy savings by “tuning the building like you would tune a car”....

December 24, 2023

Hedge funds

Why the hottest hedge fund strategy could be in trouble Premium

...News round-up Odey Asset Management abandons Mayfair headquarters (FT) FTX turns to Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital to sell crypto tokens (FT) GAM starts funding talks with investors after Liontrust bid...

August 25, 2023

Jo Ellison

How common are you?

...jo.ellison@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Mrs Astor’s Four Hundred and American snobs today / From Mike Duggan, Potomac, MD, US...

November 10, 2023

Unhedged

Five questions for 2024 Premium

...We like boxes B and C. Will the long end follow the short end down, and why? We can debate how much short rates will come down, but it seems pretty clear that they will fall....

December 19, 2023

Lex PopuliFinancials

Credit ratings: time for downgrades for lenders, property and the US

...US flexible offices group WeWork was recently downgraded to CC, one notch above a C rating. A C signals a default may be imminent....

August 25, 2023

HTSIHTSI spring menswear special

‘I absolutely deserve waffles…’ Walter Van Beirendonck talks taste

...The multimedia piece he created with Mike Kelley, Heidi, is incredible....

March 11, 2023

ReviewAlbums

Makaya McCraven: In These Times — fine-crafted beats with an underground vibe

...The album begins with applause, an Afro-centric pulse and the sampled voice of US singer Harry Belafonte discussing the construction of the C&O railway with broadcaster Studs Terkel....

October 21, 2022

FT Live

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FT Asset Management

Ark lands in Europe

...And finally A few decades ago, the residents of Wigtown (population c. 1,000) in south-west Scotland wondered if they could follow Hay-on-Wye in Wales’s lead....

September 25, 2023

Banks in turmoil

First Republic hit by succession crisis before Fed began raising rates

...The C-suite drama would be followed by much bigger problems....

March 24, 2023

Workplace diversity & equality

UK private companies given targets for ethnic minorities on boards

...The other three are Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, F&C Investment Trust and Unite Group....

March 13, 2023

Due Diligence

Why $17bn in Credit Suisse debt was wiped out Premium

...Bank of America has named Mike Browne and Anand Melvani as co-heads of its leveraged finance business in the Americas....

March 21, 2023

UK politics

Can smaller reactors help meet the UK’s nuclear power targets?

...on the design, a smaller reactor would generate between 50 and 500 megawatts of power, compared with the 3.2 gigawatt output from the only large nuclear part under construction in the UK — Hinkley Point C...

March 20, 2023

The crisis in European equities

Britain’s ‘capitalism without capital’: the pension funds that shun risk

...Its model has been widely adopted across Canada’s public sector — CPP Investments, established in 1999 to oversee and invest the assets of the Canada Pension Plan, has grown from just C$12mn to C$536bn and...

April 19, 2023

News in-depthMike Pence

Mike Pence squares up to Donald Trump as former running mates eye 2024 bids

...Pence “is really speaking really clearly to the capital-C conservative community, the evangelical community which has always been a home of his”, said Doug Heye, a Republican strategist....

July 27, 2022

Darktrace

Heart of Darktrace

...The Mike Lynch-backed company never goes as far as to apologise for its past life, choosing instead to talk of legacy issues born of corporate immaturity....

February 3, 2023

Darktrace

Thoma Bravo considers taking Darktrace private

...Thoma Bravo, a US-based technology private equity group, is considering a bid to privatise Darktrace, a cyber security technology company advised by former Autonomy head Mike Lynch....

August 15, 2022

Matthew Engel

England men’s cricketers deliver miracle end to year full of weirdness

...“C’est magnifique,” said a French general watching the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854, “mais ce n’est pas la guerre.” The Aussies will be thinking the same. But so far, so good....

December 23, 2022

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