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FT Alphaville
Taylor Swift broke Spotify
...But given the brouhaha about the most pre-saved record in Spotify history and the economic footprint of the 2023 Eras tour and the bonuses Tay-Tay handed out in its wake, maybe this is the final death knell...
April 19, 2024
Equities
Small stocks, big problems
...Given their greater sensitivity to economic growth, Goldman reckons US small caps will return about 15 per cent over the next 12 months....
April 17, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management North America
New models for the next age of fund management
Wednesday, 25 SeptemberNew York, NY, USA
Private credit
Private credit is even larger than you think
...Given the specialized nature of the asset class, the risks involved may be misrepresented....
April 17, 2024
FT Alphaville
SEC fires ‘AI washing’ warning shot
...Given the frenzy of investment managers, analysts, bankers and brokers touting how they are using artificial intelligence to “revolutionise!!!”...
March 18, 2024
FT Alphaville
Even multibillionaires are tempted by the thrill of insider trading
...Because the penalty seems pretty mild given what the SEC implies was a clear case of insider trading, albeit for only modest profit?...
March 27, 2024
EU economy
Sweden as a global bellwether
...Given businesses in Sweden ultimately depend on global demand, it is telling that the default rate in the US (one of Sweden’s biggest export destinations) is also picking up....
March 21, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Banks
The $1tn ‘hold-to-maturity’ sleight-of-accounting
...We shared this NBER paper on interest rate hedging by US banks in Further Reading earlier this week, but given FTAV’s interest in the subject we thought it warranted a closer look....
April 3, 2024
Private equity
Norway says ‘nei’ to private equity
...This wasn’t entirely unexpected, given that every CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management has at some point asked if they can invest in private equity, but been turned down by various governments....
April 12, 2024
Robin Harding
Welcome to the winter of the wonk
...robin.harding@ft.com Letter in response to this column:Liberal democracy must be more strongly defended / From Maël Jones, MA Student, University of Bath, Bath, Somerset, UK...
February 28, 2024
Equities
Structured products and the ‘broken Vix’ discourse
...Xu wonders why options-based yield-enhancement funds are growing so quickly, given that the ZIRP era is over and Treasury bills now give you 5 per cent a year....
March 13, 2024
Global Economy
The Jamaican exception
...Our mainFT colleague Soumaya Keynes is planning to columnise on the theme later this week, but given our above-average interest in Jamaica we wanted write a quick(ish) post on the paper....
April 1, 2024
Fund management
Once more unto the ‘active comeback’ breach
...That makes it hard for active managers to beat the market in any given year, and almost impossible in the long run....
March 7, 2024
Global Economy
What REALLY drives stock market returns
...This does make sense given the wild macroeconomic shenanigans we have been dealing with since the beginning of 2020....
December 5, 2023
Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: April
Piaget thinks thinner to gain an edge on rivals
...In watchmaking, the 9P enjoys cult status, the more so given it was created long before the advent of computer-aided design and laser-guided precision milling....
April 9, 2024
Fund management
Henry Maxey versus the ‘massive moral hazard machine’
...Zero-day options Maxey seems a bit more sanguine about the 0DTE phenomenon, but is instinctively nervous (which is fair enough) given how frenzied it has become....
March 25, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Investing in funds
Index providers are massively dull — and massively profitable
...But given its estimate of 3.7mn indices in 2018 and reported annual growth rates of ca 3–5 per cent since then, there are now well over 4mn indices of different stripes....
March 19, 2024
Robin Lane Fox
An English garden that is a tribute to transient beauty
...What a change since 2019: the entry has been redesigned and given a regular pair of courtyards. Ornamental trees fit inside them, well spaced in regular patterns of straight lines....
April 5, 2024
Clearing & Settlement
Lessons from last autumn’s CCP ‘fire drill’
...That sounds pretty sensible, given how quickly things can move in a real crisis. Accidents happen....
February 14, 2024
Fintech
‘Hedge fund nirvana’
...But perhaps more importantly — given that most L/S funds actually have a clear long bias — its “Hedge Fund VIP” index of the chunkiest long positions has performed strongly....
February 12, 2024
ReviewBooks
Emily Wilson’s Iliad — a man’s world no longer
...The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson, WW Norton £30, 720 pages/$39.95 848 pages This article has been updated to clarify that the author Robin Lane Fox cites only as “one fine possibility” the...
October 19, 2023
Fund management
First ‘stockpicker’s year’ spotted!
...Given the backdrop, that is almost impressive. And if breadth continues to improve, that will in theory make things moderately easier for stockpickers in 2024....
January 5, 2024
Instant InsightRobin Harding
The big test is yet to come for the BoJ
...robin.harding@ft.com...
March 19, 2024
Sovereign bonds
Bonds are back
...But given that AGI actually suffered some modest outflows last year it seems pretty probable that it’s all about Pimco....
February 26, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: The story behind the money going to Mexico
...I’m joined now by Tom Wilson who covers energy for the FT. Hi, Tom. Tom Wilson Hi, Marc....
February 7, 2024
Central bank intervention
People are worried (again) about bond market liquidity
...Given how disastrous their mass failure can be, central banks therefore almost always (if reluctantly) backstop the industry....
March 5, 2024

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