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    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Fox Corporation
      Murdoch scraps merger of Fox and News Corp after investor pushback

      Media tycoon in talks to sell stake in digital property group instead

    • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
      FTX Trading Ltd
      Enron, Madoff and now FTX: New York’s Belfer family strike out again

      Wealthy oil dynasty were shareholders in collapsed crypto group after previous investments turned sour

    • Saturday, 14 January, 2023
      Person in the News
      Delphine Arnault, an LVMH heir steps up at Dior

      The executive will take over a thriving brand in her biggest operational role yet

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      News in-depthLuxury goods
      Prada’s new chief tasked with making generational shift smoother

      Luxury group set to be run by Andrea Guerra who will eventually pass the baton to heir Lorenzo Bertelli

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      The Big Read
      The Murdoch family trust: how the scions could battle for control

      The proposed Fox-News Corp merger could portend a realignment of the interests of Rupert Murdoch’s children

    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Special ReportFT Wealth: December 2022
      Split decisions: how siblings succeed — and fail — in business together

      Family relationships can be a source of both solidarity and tensions, so the ability to define boundaries is crucial

    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      Special ReportFT Wealth: December 2022
      Carmignac shows faith in family business mindset as key to growth

      Asset manager’s Portfolio Family Governed fund seeks to exploit potential of thinking that looks beyond short term

    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      John Gapper
      How to succeed with a family business succession

      Red Bull appears wiser than Tyson Foods in deciding how to hand power to the next generation

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      FT Wealth
      Engaging the young in family business culture

      ‘A shared culture creates the basis on which a company can continue to prosper as control passes from one generation to the next’

    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      Dell-backed investment group merges with Buffett’s favoured advisory firm

      MSD Partners combines with Byron Trott’s BDT merchant bank to advise billionaires on deals

    • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
      News Corp
      Rupert Murdoch faces sceptical investors in bid to reunite empire

      Merger of Fox and News Corp would build scale but ‘raises more questions than answers’

    • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
      FT Wealth
      Asian art and luxury buying boom

      While some of Hong Kong’s rich leave, others buy art and pledge to stay put

    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      Daily Mail & General Trust
      Lord Rothermere to become chief of Daily Mail publisher

      Great-grandson of newspaper’s founder and chair of DMGT will take charge at end of the month

    • Friday, 9 September, 2022
      ObituaryCyrus Mistry
      Cyrus Mistry, businessman, 1968-2022

      The understated billionaire was known for his long-running dispute with one of India’s biggest conglomerates

    • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
      FT WealthDavid Kamenetzky
      How family businesses survive hard times

      Creating value for their customers and themselves has been a key component in ensuring they outlast listed companies

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      Lex
      Mars: family businesses will weather downturn in better shape Premium content

      Candy and pet food group is in its 111th year of business

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      Mars Inc
      Mars reveals bigger revenues than Coca-Cola as it appoints new chief executive

      Intensely private chocolate and pet care company shows $45bn sales as Poul Weihrauch succeeds Grant Reid

    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      FT Wealth
      Traditional family offices emerge as unlikely venture capitalists

      A growing list of wealthy families are now looking to profit from the Silicon Valley tech boom

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      Atlantia SpA
      Blackstone and Benetton family bid to take Italy’s Atlantia private in €54bn deal

      Infrastructure deal would mark Europe’s biggest ever take-private transaction

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      FT Magazine
      The pervasive succession crisis threatening Japan’s economy

      The world’s third-largest economy was built on craftsmanship and family enterprise. A shortage of heirs jeopardises that legacy

    • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
      News in-depthUnited Arab Emirates
      Succession dramas add impetus to UAE’s draft family business law

      Proposed legislation aims to improve governance and smooth inheritance transitions at family-run Gulf companies

    • Monday, 21 February, 2022
      News in-depthShipping
      Maersk has learnt from past mistakes, new chair insists

      Shipping giant is using bumper profits from high freight rates on a logistics shopping spree

    • Monday, 17 January, 2022
      News in-depthSaudi Arabia
      Family businesses in Saudi Arabia go public as stock market booms

      Companies willing to open up to external shareholders and greater scrutiny as pandemic exacerbates pressures

    • Tuesday, 28 December, 2021
      Lex
      Inditex/family business: they flourish if they do not go Gaga Premium content

      Family-controlled companies tend to take a cautious approach to risk and plan for the long term

    • Sunday, 26 December, 2021
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      UAE pushes merchant families to open up to competition

      Gulf state talks to local conglomerates over end of sales monopolies as it tries to attract more investment

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