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April 4, 2023

Jancis Robinson’s recommended reds for Christmas 2022

...Great balance and fun to drink. £17.99 MJ Wine Cellars Cosme Palacio, Glorioso Gran Reserva 2015 Rioja 14%Masses of class and interest per penny....

December 3, 2022

FT Live

Evolving retirement strategies in an ever-changing world

What new regulatory developments mean for IFAs

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

Tesco’s best wines: Jancis Robinson’s recommendations

...Their stock seems dominated by the need to shave pennies off the selling price, not helped by successive, stealthy increases in duty....

May 28, 2022

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

Keeping fresh: which wines last longest?

...These stoppers are worth every penny and have kept my leftover sparkling wines fizzy and interesting for longer than I care to confess in print....

September 25, 2021

UK Budget

Budget 2021: How to limit the damage

...“Anything below 1 per cent is really just clinging on now,” says David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages....

October 29, 2021

FT Wealth

Family offices tap into the Spac boom

...After several years in Lazard’s mergers and acquisitions practice, she worked as a private equity principal at hedge fund Argonaut Capital before joining L Investments as CIO in 2013....

June 22, 2021

FT Live

Building a Personal Wealth Plan

Capitalising on market shifts and innovations in fintech

Travel

In Rome, a 2,000-year-old emperor’s tomb finally reopens

...He was said to have a dry sense of humour, once remarking that a nervous man handing him a petition looked like a man offering a penny to an elephant....

March 4, 2021

The Aesthete

‘I am part builder, part child’ – Alexa Chung talks personal taste

...My favourite neighbourhood is Saint-Germain-des-Prés, because I love L’Hotel and all the antique shops and art galleries there....

February 10, 2021

FT SeriesCompanies prospering in the pandemic

Prospering in the pandemic: the market winners

...Companies including Nestle, L’Oréal and Alibaba made the cut despite single-digit percentage gains in value....

July 3, 2020

House & Home

Sears, Argos and Habitat: a catalogue of our lives

...The lemon-yellow L-shaped sofa and armchair and the two huge sash windows make it warm, light and optimistic. In the foreground is a chrome-and-glass tubular table and four white plastic chairs....

October 30, 2020

FT SeriesA very different summer

Heard about the comedian who couldn’t go to Edinburgh?

...I know my way around a P&L, though when I gave up life in the boardroom to become a full-time comic and public speaker the one commodity I didn’t anticipate running out of was the public....

July 2, 2020

Michael Martin

Busting the lifetime allowance is music to my ears

...I started my career in financial services in the 1990s, not long after heavy rock bands L.A....

July 10, 2020

Stefan Wagstyl

Wealthy investors ride the storm

...I believe in an L-shape or a U-shape, with the second leg being at 45 degrees. There is nothing in place to justify another strong rally.”...

June 5, 2020

ReviewVisual Arts

Fondation Custodia: online window on to a world of rare treasures

...His first purchase, in 1913, was Bartolomeo Cesi’s rapt, trompe l’oeil “A Carthusian Monk”, set as if in a niche....

March 24, 2020

News in-depthFT Alphaville

Spotify: in tune

...On a financial level, this “marketplace” service is beginning to be felt on the P+L: it contributed €30m of gross profit, 6 per cent of the €474m total, in the fourth quarter of 2019....

February 6, 2020

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

How To Scent It: the fragrance trends you need to know

Scented lipsticks to pout about

...Still reeling, I handed over my entire allowance and left the store without a penny to my name, but with a beautiful, powerful accessory. I don’t believe I ever wore it....

November 22, 2019

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

Jancis Robinson’s stunning white wines for the festive season

...Residual sugar (just 4.5g/l) is negligible....

December 6, 2019

Coty Inc

Coty revenues worse than feared on mass market weakness

...Adjusting for one-time items the company reported earnings of 13 cents a share, a penny above estimates. Gross margin fell 70 basis points from a year ago to 62.8 per cent....

May 8, 2019

Q&ARemortgaging

Q&A: Tesco checks out of mortgage market

...You could attempt to clock up more points by paying off a lump sum — but as one point is only worth one penny, it’s hardly the deal of the decade....

May 24, 2019

FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley

Meerkats, ministers and the price of Theresa May’s words

...Or perhaps: “Hello L’Oréal, £50m by Monday. The prime minister says it’s because she’s worth it.”...

March 8, 2019

Personal Finance

Divorce: dividing up the family home

...Research on the “Bank of Mum and Dad” by L&G, the UK insurer, suggests £6.3bn will be lent or gifted to children for housing costs in 2019....

September 27, 2019

Dance

Choreographer Mark Morris on his Beatles tribute ‘Pepperland’

...Morris is only 62 but “there’s been a big focus on legacy with a giant capital L”....

March 15, 2019

The complete guide to eco beauty

The clean beauty boom

...It takes four days to harvest the seeds from eight tonnes of fruit to obtain a litre of Kahina Giving Beauty’s Prickly Pear Seed Oil ($150), while Sarah Craig, of the Canadian Penny Frances Apothecary, grows...

February 13, 2019

Inside BusinessSarah Gordon

Shareholders hold the key to unlocking boardrooms for women

...Women executive directors are still disproportionately likely to be in HR or marketing roles, rather than ones with real power over the P&L or pay, which then lead to the chief executive position....

November 13, 2018

Merryn Somerset Webb

Who wants to be a penny-pinching pensioner?

...There are guaranteed drawdown products aplenty and Smart Pension and L&G are developing a more complex “pathway” that covers all bases....

June 15, 2018

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