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    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      Chris Giles
      OK boomer, you’re more generous than we thought

      Britain’s older generation is not frittering away wealth on fast cars and cruises but passing much of it down

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Free LunchMartin Sandbu
      Norway’s exodus of billionaires Premium content

      Making sense of the world’s least important migration crisis

    • Tuesday, 27 December, 2022
      US banks
      JPMorgan bankers try to lure away Morgan Stanley’s tax fund clients

      Banks both offer tax-loss harvesting, which has boomed in popularity on Wall Street this year

    • Sunday, 18 December, 2022
      News in-depthNikkei Asia
      Asia’s female financial firepower surges to record highs

      Combined wealth of women in Asia now world’s second-highest, but systemic issues challenge equality

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      Norway
      Rich Norwegians flee to low-tax Switzerland as wealth levy bites

      Business leaders voice concerns over taxes imposed by centre-left government in Oslo

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      FT live news
      Live news updates from December 15: BoE and ECB raise rates 0.5%, Musk sells $3.6bn of Tesla stock
    • Monday, 12 December, 2022
      Chinese business & finance
      Booming Chinese family offices recruit top bankers in Singapore

      Financial institutions expect to lose ‘whole teams’ to private funds that will increasingly resemble hedge funds

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      Special Report
      FT Wealth: December 2022

      In this edition: how siblings can build business together — despite the tensions; Carmignac’s penchant for family-governed companies; why prime property buyers are sticking to the centre; times of crisis bring a skewering for the super-rich on screen

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      FT WealthRhymer Rigby
      The best people to convince the rich to pay more tax are . . . the rich

      Funding the state only really works as a collective endeavour, which requires serious peer pressure

    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      Special ReportFT Wealth: December 2022
      The ‘Succession’ effect: how TV dramas got angrier about the rich

      Skewering the wealthy on screen is nothing new but today’s financial insecurity is feeding a deeper scepticism

    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
      Jeff Bezos
      Jeff Bezos pledges to give away most of his fortune

      Amazon founder’s decision comes after he gave singer Dolly Parton $100mn to send to charities of her choice

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      Private investing
      Looking for alternatives: the investment trust route

      Trusts offer ways into innovative companies even in tough market conditions

    • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      FTX’s $8bn crunch exposes a dog-eat-dog cryptosphere

      The near-collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire leaves Binance dominant

    • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
      Chinese society
      Chinese tycoons’ fortunes shrivel as lockdowns and crackdowns bite

      Xi Jinping’s commitment to zero-Covid and ‘common prosperity’ blamed for fall in wealth

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      Investments
      UK private wealth portfolios down by up to a third

      Market losses, inflation and currency movements combine to hurt savers this year

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      Hugo Cox
      Beware the foreign exchange transfers maze

      The money changers’ charges are crippling — and there are plenty of pitfalls along the way

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      Jan Dalley
      Rich-bashing is back (on screen)

      From ‘The White Lotus’ to Cannes-winner ‘Triangle of Sadness’, satires on the haves and have-yachts are trending

    • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
      FT MagazineGillian Tett
      Why billionaires are obsessed with bunkers

      Come Armageddon it may be tempting for the ultra-rich to have an escape route, but this thinking exacerbates the very problems they’re trying to escape

    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
      Chinese politics & policy
      China’s wealthy activate escape plans as Xi extends rule

      Rich citizens fearing high taxes and personal safety move capital out of country and arrange residences overseas

    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      ReviewTelevision
      The Elon Musk Show offers little insight into the man behind the entrepreneur

      BBC2 documentary is elusive in its attempt to penetrate the Tesla and SpaceX boss’s public persona

    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      Dell-backed investment group merges with Buffett’s favoured advisory firm

      MSD Partners combines with Byron Trott’s BDT merchant bank to advise billionaires on deals

    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      Nathan Valbonesi
      How not to spoil your rich kids

      Wealthy parents should manage their children’s expectations and resist giving them too much too soon

    • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
      LexTwitter Inc
      Twitter/Musk: bid at agreed price would boost trust in fair dealing Premium content

      The $44bn takeover that neither side particularly wants is back on the table

    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      James Max
      Rich People’s Problems: Should I keep my Aga cooker switched off?

      As energy bills soar even those of means are trying to find ways to save

    • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
      Money laundering
      Westminster council plans crack down on ‘dirty money’

      London local authority vows to combat ‘secret’ web of opaque property ownership and calls for tougher penalties

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