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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bankers’ bonuses in Asia have been plunging. But not for Noel Quinn. Total pay for the HSBC chief executive nearly doubled to £10.6mn ($13.4mn) in 2023. The Asia-focused lender also boosted its overall bonus pool
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“Huge numbers of independent financial advisers are incompetent,” Peter Hargreaves, co-founder of Hargreaves Lansdown, told the Financial Times in 2007, on the eve of the investment manager’s flotation. The plan was simple. Hargreaves Lansdown would enable customers to bypass the old guard of financial advisers and dispel the notion that investing was solely the preserve
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Pensions industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Once upon a time, big US companies provided their longtime employees with clearly defined pension benefits that guaranteed them enough to live on for the rest of their lives. That fairy tale ending disappeared for
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. England needs as many as half a million new homes a year to keep up with the country’s rising population, according to a Financial Times analysis — far more than either the Conservatives or Labour
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump entered the 2024 election year with about 200,000 fewer donors than in the previous presidential campaign four years ago, raising questions about his fundraising machine just as legal bills eat into his war
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After two heavy by-election defeats last week, rightwing Conservatives are twisting Rishi Sunak’s arm to shift further to the right on issues such as migration. Absurd as it might seem for a government that has
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Eurozone economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Europe has long looked across the Atlantic at the US economy with a mixture of horror and awe. The EU population would not accept the health and social inequalities in America, but it wishes it
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