Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If only Taiwanese investors had paid closer attention to the cheesiest of economic statistics, the Big Mac Index. Earlier this year in its semi-annual calculation of the BMI, The Economist ranked the Taiwan dollar as … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The world’s top producers of critical minerals have tightened their stranglehold on the market despite western countries’ efforts to cut their dependency on China for metals key to the energy transition. The countries that are … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US life insurers have shifted more than $1tn of liabilities offshore, offloading more risk to foreign jurisdictions despite regulators’ concerns about protections for retirement savings and broader financial stability. Private capital-owned groups such as Apollo’s … Read more
European pension funds and other long-term asset owners say they are doubling down on sustainable investing, even as the latest data shows some asset managers are still retreating from so-called environmental, social and governance investing after a political backlash in the US. Large pension funds, including the £33bn UK People’s Pension, the €60bn Dutch industrial … Read more
US lawmakers are pressing Northern Ireland to approve an American-owned gold mine potentially worth billions of pounds to the local economy, warning that delays to the project risk driving away foreign capital. Four congressmen and the British ambassador in Washington Lord Peter Mandelson have written to local authorities to express frustration at eight years of … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Robinhood, the US broker that shot to prominence in the 2021 meme stock craze, plans to take on UK investment platforms such as Hargreaves Lansdown by launching a stocks-and-shares Isa with no fees before the … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world European and Asian investors pumped record sums into global equity funds that exclude the US market after President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Investors put $2.5bn into world ex-US mutual and … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Commodities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The son of one of the Kazakh oligarchs who founded what is now Eurasian Resources Group is seeking to buy out his late father’s partners in a deal that would give Shukhrat Ibragimov a majority stake … Read more
Total’s risky bet on a natural gas megaproject in southern Africa
One thing to start: Builder.ai, one of the UK’s best-funded technology start-ups, is entering insolvency proceedings, weeks after restating its revenues and admitting “problems” under its past leadership. Welcome to Due Diligence, your briefing on dealmaking, private equity and corporate finance. This article is an on-site version of the newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up … Read more