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Wednesday, 10 August, 2022

News in-depthRobinhood
Robinhood suffers harshest hangover after pandemic stock trading boom
Active users desert upstart retail broker while stodgier rivals weather market slump
Wednesday, 3 August, 2022

Behind the Money podcast20 min listen
The rise of the ‘F@$K It’ investor
The 2008 financial crisis gave rise to a new generation of investors known as ‘generation moonshot’
Wednesday, 3 August, 2022

FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
‘Generation Moonshot’ investors
China suspends 2,000 food products from Taiwan as Pelosi visits
Tuesday, 2 August, 2022

Robinhood
Robinhood to slash headcount by 23% as retail trading bubble bursts
Second round of lay-offs this year for company that promised to revolutionise stockbroking
Thursday, 21 July, 2022

Travel
This year’s hottest vacation? Working as a Wild West ranch-hand
Guest ranches have never been busier — but why are tourists forking out to do hard physical labour?
Wednesday, 20 July, 2022

The Big Read
Generation moonshot: why young investors are not ready to give up on risk
Even amid a meltdown in crypto markets, DIY traders who came of age after the financial crisis no longer want to play by the old rules
Monday, 11 July, 2022

Financial services
Wealth management booms as the rich get richer but markets get choppy
Industry aims to attract rising tide of younger DIY customers coming into inheritances but who need assistance
Friday, 8 July, 2022

News in-depthCryptocurrencies
Crypto exchanges and retail brokers vie for customers as trading ardour cools
Competition grows for ordinary investors who trade shares and digital tokens
Friday, 24 June, 2022

Robinhood
Robinhood’s depiction of liquidity during ‘meme stock’ frenzy questioned
US congressional committee releases findings from 18-month probe into wild market swings of January 2021
Tuesday, 21 June, 2022

News in-depthUS midterm elections
Illinois governor’s race shapes up to be a battle of the billionaires
Citadel’s Ken Griffin faces off against a Republican megadonor and an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune
Monday, 20 June, 2022

Special ReportFTfm: ETFs and Asset Management
Technology providers push direct indexing into the mainstream
Asset managers are acquiring fintech partners to capitalise on the surge in client interest in tax reductions and customised portfolios
Sunday, 19 June, 2022

Chinese business & finance
Gramercy sees value in buying up indebted China real estate
Founder Robert Koenigsberger notes parallels to Russia in the 1990s and is loading up on property company bonds
Saturday, 18 June, 2022

Warren Buffett
Lunch with Warren Buffett sells for $19mn at auction
Chance to dine with 91-year-old Berkshire billionaire in New York sets record
Wednesday, 15 June, 2022

Cryptocurrencies
Crypto exchanges slash jobs as market turmoil triggers trading downturn
Sharp slowdown in volumes hits major platforms such as Coinbase and Gemini
Tuesday, 14 June, 2022

FT MagazineMobile devices
In praise of voice notes, the most despised form of communication
Tapping the mic in WhatsApp or iMessage is a way to maintain real connection in a text-first world
Monday, 13 June, 2022

Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab to pay $187mn settlement to robo-adviser clients
SEC slams ‘egregious’ allocations of customer money that extracted ‘hidden costs’
Wednesday, 8 June, 2022

US financial regulation
SEC chief launches review of ‘uneven’ US equities market
Gary Gensler’s plan to ‘do better for retail investors’ draws fire from brokers and trading firms
Saturday, 4 June, 2022

Cryptocurrencies
Slumping cryptocurrency prices undercut pay cheque trend
Mayor of New York says ‘bitcoin is here to stay’ after converting some salary to digital assets
Monday, 16 May, 2022

Fund management
The trillions of dollars bypassing black-run funds
Lack of allocations poses ‘huge problem’ of inequality for the industry, warns investor John Rogers
Thursday, 12 May, 2022

Robinhood
FTX chief takes stake in online brokerage Robinhood
Sam Bankman-Fried’s disclosure of $648mn in share purchases sends company’s stock soaring
Thursday, 12 May, 2022

News in-depthUS equities
Retail traders no longer ‘buyer of first resort’ as US stocks slide
Inflows have dwindled this month while inflation and interest rates squeeze spare cash
Friday, 6 May, 2022

Lunch with the FT
Writer Ocean Vuong: ‘Beauty is medicinal to me. It’s not useless’
The Vietnamese-American poet on the legacy of war, navigating grief — and turning invisibility into a superpower
Thursday, 28 April, 2022

Robinhood
Robinhood revenues tumble as retail trading loses steam
Shares fall 11% as brokerage laps ‘Covid extravaganza trading boom’
Tuesday, 12 April, 2022

Life & Arts
Must love dogs, and other lessons for the return to real-life dating
Two’s company. But three, when one of them is a dog, is a crowd
Wednesday, 6 April, 2022

Agricultural commodities
Investors seeking inflation hedge snap up US farmland
Prices for prime Midwest ground climbed by up to a third in past year as world food prices hit records