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Thursday, 2 December, 2021

Daily Mail & General Trust
Rothermere sweetens bid to take Daily Mail publisher private
Majedie Asset Management remains opposed after family’s ‘final’ bid raises offer by £35m
Thursday, 2 December, 2021

Abrdn Plc
Abrdn seals £1.5bn Interactive Investor deal in retail push
Acquisition is boldest move yet by FTSE 100 asset manager as it seeks to reignite growth
Tuesday, 30 November, 2021

Pensions
Pension funds seek returns in private assets as public market outlook dims
Confronted with low bond yields and elevated stock valuations, managers look to unlisted investments
Monday, 29 November, 2021

IPOs
The bleak performance of IPOs this year Premium content
Plus, the ‘Tesla-financial complex’, the march of private assets and Noguchi’s retrospective
Saturday, 27 November, 2021

IWG PLC
IWG vs WeWork: investors’ starkly differing views of the rival shared office groups
The UK company is bigger and more profitable than its US-listed competitor — but has a far lower valuation
Monday, 22 November, 2021

FT Asset Management
Why McKinsey’s secretive investment fund was rebuked by regulators Premium content
Plus, Bond Kings sound the alarm, booming bank stocks and Lehman Brothers comes to Broadway
Sunday, 21 November, 2021

Executive Pay
LGIM ends feedback on executive pay after finding it mostly ignored
UK’s largest asset manager to focus direct consultation on areas such as climate change instead
Monday, 15 November, 2021

FT Asset Management
The ‘FOMO’ rally and the ‘everything bubble’ Premium content
Plus, the divestment dilemma, the return of global dividends and an infernal tour of Sir John Soane’s Museum
Monday, 8 November, 2021

FT Asset Management
How investing in private equity is like ‘walking into a jungle’
Plus, James Anderson’s China mea culpa, a strong US earnings season and the greatest of all Romantic ballets
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Saturday, 6 November, 2021

Abrdn Plc
Abrdn finalising £1.5bn deal to buy Interactive Investor
FTSE 100 asset manager seeks to deepen its direct-to-consumer business by acquiring fund supermarket
Friday, 5 November, 2021

InterviewBaillie Gifford & Co
Baillie Gifford’s Anderson: Don’t ‘give up on China’
Investment manager offers mea culpa on clampdown that wiped billions off tech stocks
Thursday, 4 November, 2021

Amundi
Amundi hit by €16bn outflow from China joint venture
Shares fall but asset manager’s profit surpasses estimates in third quarter
Tuesday, 2 November, 2021

BlackRock Inc
BlackRock sells almost half its stake in THG
Asset manager divests 58m shares in UK ecommerce group at a 10% discount
Monday, 1 November, 2021

Franklin Templeton Investments
Franklin Templeton buys alternatives firm Lexington for $1.75bn
Purchase comes amid flurry of dealmaking as asset managers seek new avenues of growth
Monday, 1 November, 2021

News in-depthBarclays PLC
New Barclays chief ‘Venkat’ emerges from Jes Staley’s shadow
Former risk officer turned trading boss tried to warn JPMorgan about huge losses from ‘London Whale’
Monday, 1 November, 2021

FT Asset Management
The rationale behind T Rowe Price’s largest-ever deal Premium content
Plus, the private credit party, sentiment turns cautiously bullish on China, and Elon Musk’s dog
Thursday, 28 October, 2021

T Rowe Price Group Inc
T Rowe Price to buy Oak Hill in $4.2bn cash and shares deal
Asset manager’s biggest acquisition comes as demand for alternative investment grows
Monday, 25 October, 2021

FT Asset Management
Al Gore’s ‘inconvenient truth’ for investors
Plus, a short seller’s $1m ‘bounty’ on Tether, more outflows from unloved UK stocks and Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt
Sunday, 24 October, 2021

Rothesay Life Ltd
UK insurer Rothesay prepares to offer 25-year mortgages
Move is attempt to bring more certainty for borrowers as threat of rate rises grows
Sunday, 24 October, 2021

Climate change
Al Gore urges overhaul of global finance to cut greenhouse gases
Former US vice-president calls for an end to the large-scale backing of carbon-intensive projects
Thursday, 21 October, 2021

Cryptocurrencies
FTX lures blue-chip investors in funding round, valuing crypto group at $25bn
BlackRock, Sequoia and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan took part in $421m deal
Monday, 18 October, 2021

FT Asset Management
Quant ‘wolves’ chart path to China
Plus, the reinvention of lockdown day traders, UK asset managers’ diverging fortunes, and an immersive digital art experience
Monday, 11 October, 2021

Cryptocurrencies
UK’s ex-chancellor Philip Hammond joins crypto start-up Copper
Senior Conservative says ‘everyone has taken on board’ lessons from Greensill Capital
Monday, 11 October, 2021

FT Asset Management
BlackRock: ‘the journey of a single man’
Plus, Nelson Peltz’s fantasy dealmaking, ESG reboots private markets, and how London became a crypto-art capital
Monday, 4 October, 2021

FT Asset Management
Elliott’s former $2.4bn Argentina man comes after India
Plus, the fight to lead the ‘Americanisation’ of European share trading, Europe’s gas crunch, and the best dry martinis in London