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    Harriet Agnew

    Asset Management Editor

    Harriet is asset management editor at the FT. She also writes FT Asset Management, a weekly newsletter on the movers and shakers behind a multitrillion-dollar global industry. Before her current role Harriet 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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    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      US & Canadian companies
      Private equity is in for rampant consolidation

      Plus, betting on a US recession, stock buybacks slow, and Chanel retrospective at the V&A

    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      BP PLC
      How Bernard Looney’s career at BP unravelled

      Chief executive’s abrupt exit has left oil major facing questions over its culture

      Bernard Looney and a BP logo
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      BP PLC
      BP chair rules himself out as next chief executive

      Helge Lund has sought to reassure investors following Bernard Looney’s abrupt departure

      BP chair Helge Lund
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      News in-depthBP PLC
      Looney’s exit throws BP’s strategy into doubt

      Chief went further than competitors in oil and gas group’s commitments to invest in renewable energy

      Bernard Looney
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      US economy
      BlackRock and Amundi warn of rising US recession risk

      Investment chiefs point to cooling labour market and favour Treasuries

      A barista hands a pastry over the counter to a customer at a coffee shop in Washington DC. A mug is held by a colleague in the foreground
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      FT Asset Management
      Bumper profits for credit hedge funds

      Plus, Sequoia’s turbulent year, Venezuelan government bonds, and 30 years of London fashion at the Design Museum

    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Goldman Sachs Group
      Goldman plans new job cull for bankers deemed underperformers

      Cuts under annual ‘strategic resource assessment’ scheme expected to be at lower end of range

      Goldman sign on a building
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      BAE Systems PLC
      BAE Systems’ pension scheme awards £23bn mandate to Goldman Sachs

      Outsourcing deal is the largest of its kind in the UK to date

      A BAE howitzer on display at an exhibition
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Sushil Wadhwani
      Sushil Wadhwani to step back from eponymous firm

      Former Bank of England rate-setter sold asset manager to US fund giant PGIM in 2018

      Sushil Wadhwani
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Hedge funds
      Interest rate rises heap pressure on hedge funds to perform

      Investors demand funds deliver returns well above the risk-free rate or face redemptions

      A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Arm Ltd
      Arm targets valuation of up to $52bn in IPO

      Updated filing shows chip designer will raise an initial $4.9bn for current owner SoftBank

      Arm and SoftBank logos on a board
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
      Ontario Teachers’ fund acquires UK wealth manager 7IM

      Canadian pension fund agrees to buy holding from Caledonia Investments in roughly £450mn deal

      A view of Canary Wharf in the City of London
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Arm Ltd
      SoftBank faces investor scepticism over $50bn price tag for Arm IPO

      Top fund managers say UK chip designer and Japanese group will struggle to sell its growth story

      Arm’s logo on the screen of a smartphone above a computer motherboard
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      FT Asset Management
      Ken Griffin calls the top

      Plus, hidden Adani investors, hedge funds bet against Argentine government bonds, and Hôtel Le Corbusier in Marseille

    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      The Big Read
      Are hedge fund pioneers facing the end of a golden era?

      The multi-manager model has generated years of exceptional returns, even after fees. But rising interest rates and an expensive battle for talent are taking their toll

      A montage of Citadel founder Ken Griffin, left, and Millennium Management founder Izzy Englander, with $100 bill in the background
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Investor activism
      Food companies face investor calls to curb antibiotic use on farms

      Awareness about the negative impact of antimicrobial resistance on shareholder returns is growing

      Chickens gathered to drink water on a farm
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      Soho House Ltd
      Soho House teams up with Michael Milken to bring The Ned to Washington

      London-based group partners with ‘junk bond king’ on club adjacent to the White House

      Rendering of Ned’s Club Washington DC
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Italian banks
      Top investors attack Italy’s botched windfall tax on banks

      Alarm over levy and poor communication from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

      An Intesa SanPaolo bank branch in Brescia, Italy
    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
      FT Asset Management
      Asset Management: a short history of the bond market

      Plus, cash piles climb, investors warm to the riskiest US corporate debt, and Joshua Reynolds at Kenwood

    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      US-China relations
      House committee quizzes BlackRock and MSCI on China investments

      US lawmakers accuse firms of facilitating capital flows to ‘America’s foremost foreign adversary’

      Representative Mike Gallagher, a Republican from Wisconsin and chair of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the US and the Chinese Communist Party, speaks in Congress earlier this year.
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      Wizz Air Holdings Plc
      Wizz Air faces pushback on plan to give chief extra time to hit £100mn bonus

      Proxy advisers ISS and Pirc oppose AGM resolution to grant József Váradi two more years to win one-off award

      József Váradi waves a ribbon as he looks out of the cockpit of a Wizz Air plane
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      News in-depthBT Group Plc
      Allison Kirkby, the Glaswegian telecoms turnaround expert taking over BT

      First female chief executive of the UK group is heading home after nearly a decade in Scandinavia

      Allison Kirkby
    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      FT Asset Management
      Asset Management: Goldman’s latest blow to asset management ambitions

      Plus, GQG and the rightwing yoga evangelist, Japan’s ‘great repatriation’, and Portraits of Dogs at the Wallace Collection

    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Unilever PLC
      Ian Meakins to take over as chair at Unilever

      Replacement for Nils Andersen comes soon after arrival of Hein Schumacher as CEO of consumer products group

      UK businessman Ian Meakins
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      NatWest Group
      NatWest fails to stem Farage pressure as shareholders turn against board

      Regulators announce probes with top investor saying chair was ‘clearly not in charge’ after trying to retain CEO Alison Rose

      Howard Davies
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