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    Harriet Agnew

    Asset Management Editor

    Harriet is asset management editor. Before that she was a news editor on the companies desk, with responsibility for financial services coverage. She also spent three years as Paris correspondent for the Financial Times, covering the luxury, consumer, retail, telecoms, media and tech industries.

    Harriet joined the Financial Times in 2014 as City correspondent, and launched its City Insider column. Before that she covered hedge funds at Financial News and at Euromoney Institutional Investor.

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    • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
      BlackRock Inc
      BlackRock executive defends pensions strategy that fuelled UK crisis

      Liability-driven investing hit by ‘turbulence’ from policymakers, says corporate strategy chief

    • Wednesday, 28 September, 2022
      Bank of England
      Bank of England launches £65bn move to calm markets

      Central bank to spend £5bn a day for 13 days over ‘material risk to UK financial stability’ and threat to pensions

    • Wednesday, 28 September, 2022
      The Big Read
      The EV battery race: inside the struggles of Britishvolt

      The fate of the UK’s automotive industry might ride on it — but it has no working prototype, no factory and no customers

    • Monday, 26 September, 2022
      FT Asset Management
      Asset Management: Rees-Mogg’s Somerset Capital in sale talks again

      Plus, hedge funds short long-only peers, mounting concerns over Taiwan, and modernists at the Whitney Museum of American Art

    • Saturday, 24 September, 2022
      News in-depthFund management
      Rees-Mogg’s Somerset Capital prepares for second act

      Emerging markets fund manager considers sale as chief executive leaves and challenges mount

    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      Aveva Group
      Aveva investors plan to reject Schneider takeover

      Mawer and M&G say £9.5bn bid from French group undervalues UK software developer

    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      Capital markets
      Somerset Capital for sale in potential windfall for Jacob Rees-Mogg

      Emerging markets asset manager explores management buyout or deal with rival

    • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
      Schneider Electric SE
      Schneider agrees £9.5bn buyout of UK software developer Aveva

      Offer by French industrial group met with disappointment among some minority shareholders

    • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
      UK business & economy
      French groups swoop for depressed British assets

      Xavier Niel builds up stake in Vodafone while Aveva sold to Schneider amid depressed valuations

    • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
      InterviewEnergy crisis
      Europe must resist industry efforts to cash in on energy crisis, says Al Gore

      Countries urged to balance short-term oil and gas supply needs with green transition

    • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
      Special ReportFTfm: Responsible Investing
      Biodiversity quickly rises up the ESG investing agenda

      Species loss is now seen as a problem as big as climate change

    • Monday, 19 September, 2022
      FT Asset Management
      Asset Management: Growth investors adapt to new paradigm

      Plus, the growing retail market for ‘alts’, the lawless world of crypto scams, and Wirecard hits the screens

    • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
      The Big Read
      After the tech sell-off: will growth investors keep the faith?

      Prominent fund managers nursing heavy losses after a golden age of returns are adapting to a new reality

    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
      FT Asset Management
      Asset Management: Vanguard closes in on BlackRock’s ETF lead

      Plus, unloved UK equities, a ‘lost decade’ for 60/40 portfolios, and the Braemar Literary Festival

    • Sunday, 11 September, 2022
      Richard Buxton
      UK equities will struggle to attract investors back, says top fund manager

      Richard Buxton pessimistic that a tumbling pound and a renaissance for fossil fuels will reverse sell-off trend

    • Friday, 9 September, 2022
      News in-depthCie Financiere Richemont SA
      Johann Rupert, the luxury boss who saw off a hedge fund in the mood for a fight

      Activist investor Bluebell had accused the chair of Richemont of wielding too much power and wanted change

    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      FT Asset Management
      Julian Robertson’s life and times

      Plus, a whistle-stop tour of the stories that you may have missed over the summer holidays

    • Friday, 2 September, 2022
      UK equities
      Investors recoil from UK ‘policy vacuum’

      Sliding sterling helps stocks but fund managers see dark outlook for currency and bonds

    • Friday, 2 September, 2022
      The Top LineTiger Management LLC
      The lessons to learn from Julian Robertson and Tiger Management

      Almost 200 hedge fund firms can trace their origins to the legendary investor

    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Cie Financiere Richemont SA
      Top Richemont investors set to vote against activist’s plan to shake up board

      Shareholders of Swiss luxury group line up against hedge fund Bluebell’s challenge to chair Johann Rupert

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      ObituaryJulian Robertson
      Julian Robertson, investor, 1932-2022

      The industry giant was known for mentoring a dynasty of successful hedge fund managers

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Fund management
      Oxford’s £6bn endowment fund hit by staff exodus

      Reputation for long-term stability under pressure amid concerns over chief executive’s management style

    • Tuesday, 23 August, 2022
      Julian Robertson
      Tiger Management founder Julian Robertson dies at 90

      Influential hedge fund manager spawned dynasty of ‘Tiger cubs’ who trace origins to firm

    • Sunday, 14 August, 2022
      M&G Investments PLC
      City of London institution M&G looks ripe for a break-up

      Three years after group’s demerger from Prudential, critics say structure does not work

    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      IWG PLC
      Office provider IWG shaken as recession fears weigh on recovery

      Group’s shares fall 10% as analysts warn about falling demand for new space

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