Hints and tips:
...Sandy Rattray: The formula was such that you couldn’t hedge it. There was no liquidity in S&P 100 options....
...It includes a dry garden, planted with huge agaves, aloes, nolinas and yuccas, all exposed to winter weather but grown in very sharp, sandy soil....
...On sandy soils it can be prolific, but who minds such a pretty and harmless invader? In a lawn or rough grass, other species of crocus will not naturalise and persist so well....
...They are used to life near the sandy seaside....
...Golf is said to have begun in Scotland as a game played on a sandy beach. If the climate is intensifying, should we stop watering greens and fairways and return the game to its dry roots in history?...
...Most of them are at home on dry coastland where their tap roots enable them to survive in highly sandy soil....
...“Sandy is a quant’s quant,” said Mark Anson, the head of Commonfund, a non-profit investment group that manages $26bn on behalf of foundations and charities....
...The reporters on this story can be reached on Twitter at @robinwigg and @kayewiggins or email at robin.wigglesworth@ft.com and kaye.wiggins@ft.com...
How to sow seeds of hope during dark times
...It had an upbeat feel to it,” says Sandy Rattray, chief investment officer of Man Group....
...In 1975, the journalists Robert Shelton, Dave Laing, Karl Dallas and Robin Denselow wrote The Electric Muse, an examination of the folk revival and its subsequent electrification into folk rock....
Insights from the veteran FT columnist from his base at New College, Oxford
...“Private equity cannot continue to have a lot of alpha, given how it has grown,” said Sandy Rattray, chief investment officer of the hedge fund Man Group....
...Yet these faster-changing strategies usually “work well with a rapid fall in markets,” such as in 2020, said Sandy Rattray, chief investment officer at Man Group, which manages $108bn in assets....
...It was too late to rescue it: she had already planted it in her sandy garden. It likes heavy feeding and plenty of manure and moisture....
...A sandy-whiskered descendant has just moved in to an old badger sett beneath my garage....
...Summer holidays before my first Greek odyssey had consisted of trips to the east coast of Scotland, hikes up glens under glowering skies and sandy cheese baps on the beach in Carnoustie....
...The second world war. 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy. The polio epidemic. Personal memories of war. Complications with their immigration status. Bedbugs....
FT's Claer Barrett previews some of the big stories the FT is watching this week
...Robin Cohen of the law firm McKool Smith, said that “overwhelmingly, the coverage I am seeing does not have a virus exclusion”....
...The FT's Tokyo bureau chief, Robin Harding, has more. Japan will come to a standstill on Tuesday for the enthronement ceremony of its new emperor Naruhito....
...Sandy Rattray, chief investment officer of AHL parent Man Group, says: “Giving up on core features of markets, features that have been observable for very long periods of time, doesn’t feel like a smart...
...The FT's Robin Harding has this analysis. Signing off has political significance to both sides....
...The garden’s soil was sandy and unsuited to roses, but Pückler planned a circle of formal beds in the shape of a cathedral “rose window”. He also writes well on planting, paths and water....
...The Lizard peninsula is quintessential Cornwall: sandy coves, ancient fishing villages, traditional pubs and plentiful ice cream....
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