Investors wondering what to do with their pensions, investments and savings face an uncertain environment on various fronts as the unpredictability of Donald Trump, the US president, shakes up the markets. Equities have been volatile and the dollar has had its worst start to the year since the 1970s due to uncertainty around Trump’s tariffs … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is co-head of private equity at KKR The private equity naysayers are out in force in 2025. Underlying the latest predictions of the industry’s demise is a notable mis-step many firms made by over-deploying … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There are few industries with a more “old world” feel than European insurers. The average age among the continent’s 10 largest listed players is almost 170. Yet quietly, these old-timers have been racking up the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brussels has said it will build up emergency stockpiles of critical minerals and cable repair kits, as concerns grow over the EU’s vulnerability to attack. “The EU faces an increasingly complex and deteriorating risk landscape … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Capital markets myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Everyone knows bureaucracies don’t shrink themselves. Why on earth would they? Rather, their sole aim is to grow bigger, concluded economist William Niskanen in his budget-maximising theory of 1968. No one in Britain should have expected … Read more
Trillions of pounds worth of assets are managed by London’s listed investment houses. Their purpose is to deliver financial security for clients by growing and preserving the value of their capital. Larger managers, such as Legal & General, Aberdeen, M&G and Schroders, offer access to a wide range of asset classes and geographies, can handle … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rachel Reeves finds herself stuck between Liz Truss, Donald Trump and Labour MPs. This week, the bond market illustrated what an awkward spot that is. Ever since the general election that swept Labour back to … Read more
When the Covid-19 pandemic forced the UK into lockdown in 2020, people up and down the country turned to baking sourdough bread and yoga. For Redinel and Oerta Korfuzi, the restrictions gave cover for a different pursuit: insider trading. As a result, the Albanian siblings are now facing a new form of lockdown. On Friday, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There goes another one. KKR’s £4.7bn purchase this week of Spectris, a high-tech equipment maker, is only the latest in a series of buyouts of UK mid-market companies. Lowly valuations are attracting bargain hunters. But … Read more
Happy Friday! We’re going to try to shift this Q&A feature a bit earlier in the week in the future, but here’s an interview with Rob Gardner, a veteran of the UK investment industry with lots of interesting jobs under his belt. Gardner co-founded the investment consultancy Redington in 2006, before he left to become … Read more