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Excess savings are back, maybe

The trend is not always your friend

1 hour ago

And the winner is . . .

Hallucinating machines

Or, how generative AI might be useful in asset management

Hipgnosis Songs Fund

About that knife-edge Hipgnosis continuation vote . . .

Things we lost in the fire sale

Workplace pensions

Peering at Eton’s £100mn bet

Floreat hedge fundi

FTAV’s Friday chart quiz

FTAV’s further reading

US banks; toxic plastics; central bank losses; Mozilla’s midlife crisis

What the US shutdown means

The definition of insanity

Is it good when Wall Street compares today to 2007?

Maybe it’s capitulation, maybe it’s time for tin hats

ESG-friendly US equities have been underperforming. Why?

Measuring the value of virtue

Americas companies

How Venezuela lost Citgo

It didn’t have to happen this way

Asset allocation

The art of keeping it simple, by JPMorgan’s Jan Loeys

“Our industry does seem to love complexity and to abhor simplicity”

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