The Bennett Group

Peter Mandelson’s advisory firm valued at £30mn in deal with ex-Obama aide

...The investment by the Messina Group, founded in 2013 by former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, values Mandelson’s firm Global Counsel at about £30mn, said people close to the transaction....

April 17, 2024

News in-depthEnterprise software

The unstoppable rise of Fortnox: Swedish software group attracts short sellers

...At stake is the company’s market capitalisation which was $4.6bn on Tuesday, a 23 times multiple of forecast sales that has made it one of the world’s most highly valued software groups, more expensive on...

March 27, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Bain Capital

Bain Capital promotes top dealmaker to co-managing partner

...Since 2016, Lavine and Connaughton, 58, have been co-managing partners of the group, overseeing its day-to-day operations....

March 27, 2024

Letter

Letter: Groups that stay in Russia risk complicity in Putin’s war crimes

...Bennett Freeman Co-founder, B4Ukraine and Former Senior Vice President, Calvert Investments Washington, DC, US...

February 28, 2024

Letter

Letter: Let’s raise tax for all high earners, not just those with children

...The high-income child benefit charge should be abolished in the forthcoming Budget. Fran Bennett Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK...

February 29, 2024

Letter

Letter: It’s our growth-dependent economies that got us here

...If you knock down a wall with a sledge hammer, that is not the tool you use to rebuild it. Natalie Bennett House of Lords, London SW1, UK...

January 19, 2024

FT Live

Transforming the Finance Function with AI

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HTSIThe Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more

How to strut it à la Saltburn

...When Butler later won a Bafta, Bennett was the first person he thanked. We kept in touch....

February 20, 2024

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...(Home Economics) — It’s Going to Be a Long Winter at Floyd Bennett Field (Curbed) — The last family-run political machine in America (Economist) — Burned Investors Ask ‘Where Were the Auditors?’...

December 22, 2023

LexHelen Thomas

The Lex Newsletter: Big is still beautiful Premium

...Still, if you want proof that the bleating about London has gone too far, take a look at Wood Group....

April 17, 2024

HTSI

HTSI editor’s letter: the art of sound

...Dance is another theme throughout the issue – we meet the painters who are trying to capture the kinetic energy of movement on the canvas, as well as the choreographers Polly Bennett and Léo Walk....

February 24, 2024

LexASML Holding NV

ASML’s poor quarter is not a good reason to fret about its future Premium

...This makes for uncomfortable reading, especially given the group’s strong share price run. Indeed, its stock fell about 6 per cent on Wednesday....

April 17, 2024

Frieze LA 2024

Los Angeles’ artist-run spaces offer bold ideas and mutual help in a precarious market

...timeshare.group...

February 24, 2024

Moral Money

‘The whole institution is boiling’: Revolt inside a key climate target group Premium

...Blended capital flows fell to a 10-year low in 2022, according to the most recent estimates by research group Convergence....

April 12, 2024

HTSI

24 ways to live like a Frenchman

...doverstreetmarket.com Japanese stainless-steel coffee drip kettle, £95, japanhouselondon.uk APC leather Josh coin purse, €225 Vintage leather and chrome tubular chair, c1960, €1,195, vntg.com EB Meyrowitz The...

March 20, 2024

US presidential election 2024

Trump’s candidate won big in Ohio and Democrats are celebrating

...“It is hard to say it is not a good idea given the track record,” added Matt Bennett, a co-founder of Third Way, the centrist Democratic think-tank....

March 23, 2024

FT Live

TNW Conference 2024 - The Next Web

Europe’s leading tech event for corporates, startups, investors and governments

Oil & Gas industry

World’s most indebted oil group hits out at critics

...The company’s pool of investors for the bonds has dwindled, and much of the group’s longer dated paper remains firmly in distressed territory, below a widely recognised threshold of 70 cents on the dollar...

April 18, 2024

Management consulting

Former Tory leader William Hague joins corporate intelligence group Hakluyt

...and private equity groups....

April 18, 2024

Special ReportFTfm: Exchange Traded Funds

Women continue to lead the way in the ETF industry

...But the frankest account of why a women’s membership group was needed in the ETF industry — and why it helps to have men in the room — comes from Ross, an industry veteran who was behind the SPDR launch....

March 25, 2024

Drug prices

Rare genetic disease therapy becomes world’s most expensive drug at $4.25mn

...Orchard, a UK-based biotech that was recently bought by Japanese pharmaceutical group Kyowa Kirin, argued that the lack of other treatments for MLD justified the price....

March 20, 2024

Iran

Iran executes four people on charges of spying for Israel

...Iran is a longtime supporter of Hamas in Gaza, and backs militant groups across the region that have launched attacks against Israel and US forces in the region since the Palestinian group launched its October...

December 29, 2023

Mondelez International Inc

Mondelez chief says investors do not ‘morally care’ if groups stay in Russia

...Additional reporting by Brooke Masters in New York Letters in response to this article: Groups that stay in Russia risk complicity in Putin’s war crimes / From Bennett Freeman, Co-founder, B4Ukraine...

February 22, 2024

Inchcape PLC

Inchcape to sell UK dealerships for £346mn

...The retail business’s profit margin was 2 per cent last year, compared with 5.8 per cent for the group as a whole over the same period....

April 15, 2024

Life & Arts

Kill your darlings — insights into the art of the editing from Oxford’s Bodleian Library

...In 2008, Alan Bennett donated his archive to the Bodleian; here we see the way in which director Nicholas Hytner collaborated with Bennett first on the play The Madness of George III and later on the film...

February 16, 2024

FT Magazine

The Opus Dei diaries

...It was started in 2020 by former members and recently expanded to the English-speaking world through a Reddit group, called Opus Dei Exposed. The group has hundreds of members....

March 16, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen

Trump’s Truth Social hits the Nasdaq

...Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...

March 27, 2024

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