Date published: 28 September 2018
Eric Platt in New York and FT reporters
A set of stories on global investment activity
Date published: 14 September 2018
Kate Beioley
This week marked 10 years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered a global financial meltdown and changed the landscape for investors. But which investments have performed strongest since the financial crisis?
Date published: 08 September 2018
George Parker, Political Editor
Executive pay and unrepentant bankers symptoms of system; Bankers still have sense of ‘cultural entitlement’; Growing public anger is fuelling extremism
Date published: 07 September 2018
Timothy Ash
Reading the press it is clear that everyone is now an expert on emerging markets. The doom-mongers are out en masse.
Date published: 17 August 2018
Merryn Somerset Webb
This week I did something rather exciting. I hosted the first conversation about politics and economics at Adam Smith’s only surviving home — Panmure House in Edinburgh — since 1790, which was the year Smith died.
Date published: 14 August 2018
Hannah Murphy
The chief executives of the UK’s biggest listed companies received an 11 per cent raise last year pushing their median pay up to £3.93m, according to a report which found that full-time workers received a 2 per cent rise over the same period.
Date published: 23 May 2018
Kate Beioley
Dividends paid by companies across the world reached a record high in the first quarter of the year, prompting experts to recommend that investors expand their holdings in global income funds.
14 February 2018
Ken Fisher
Bull markets do not end this way. The recent sell off indicates abundant new highs ahead. Corrections are predictive.
09 February 2018
Martin Arnold and Chloe Cornish
They have been branded a Ponzi scheme, a tax dodge and an environmental disaster — and that is merely a fraction of the criticism that regulators have thrown at cryptocurrencies in the past week alone.
Date published: 02 February 2018
Robin Wigglesworth
In January TechCrunch, as close as you will get to an in-house blog of the technology industry, wrote an obituary of the initial public offering. It has plenty of company in declaring the death of the American IPO.
02 February 2018
Hannah Murphy and Philip Stafford
The word blockchain has been the equivalent of financial fairy dust in recent weeks, adding tens of millions of dollars to the market value of companies, including former camera pioneer Kodak Eastman, that have announced a project involving the technology or simply added it to their names.
28 January 2018
Owen Walker
Pension schemes that used active fund managers over the past quarter of a century were rewarded . . . but only by 16p a year for every £100 they invested.