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Saturday, 22 January, 2022

ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
Warren Buffett closes in on Cathie Wood as tech stocks tumble
Berkshire Hathaway’s shares have climbed as Ark’s flagship fund is hit by the growth-to-value rotation
Tuesday, 18 January, 2022

BlackRock Inc
BlackRock’s Fink rejects accusations of being ‘woke’
Head of world’s biggest asset manager defends ‘stakeholder capitalism’ in annual letter to chief executives
Friday, 14 January, 2022

Person in the NewsKenneth C. Griffin
Ken Griffin, financial prodigy turned industry giant
Citadel Securities deal is latest in string of successes for controversial hedge funder
Friday, 14 January, 2022

BlackRock Inc
BlackRock surges past $10tn in assets under management
World’s biggest money manager buoyed by inflows to exchange traded funds and active strategies
Friday, 14 January, 2022

Bridgewater Associates
Bridgewater’s return to co-CEO model rekindles management concerns
Ray Dalio’s hedge fund has cycled through top executives in recent years as performance stagnates
Tuesday, 11 January, 2022

Hedge funds
Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities sells $1.2bn stake to Sequoia and Paradigm
Deal values trading firm at $22bn and paves way for initial public offering
Tuesday, 11 January, 2022

Quant investing
AQR quant fund kicks off the year with 10% gain after 2021 rebound
Strong run for Absolute Return fund bolsters hopes that ‘quant winter’ is thawing
Friday, 7 January, 2022

News in-depthPrivate equity
Growth equity booms as investors embrace private markets
Private equity and venture capital are colliding in one of the hottest alternative investment trends
Monday, 3 January, 2022

Markets InsightExchange traded funds
As the ETF world booms, so do the risks
A brilliant financial innovation is being pushed to the extremes
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Thursday, 30 December, 2021

Equities
UK and emerging markets are left behind in the ‘everything rally’
Pandemic largesse fails to support some markets and gold also loses out
Monday, 20 December, 2021

Markets InsightMarkets
2021 shows that investors can be right for the wrong reasons
Calling the market correctly in the long run is beyond the ken of most humans
Saturday, 18 December, 2021

US banks
Omicron fears halt reopening of bank trading floors
Some Wall Street firms relax efforts to get staff back into offices as infections rise
Friday, 17 December, 2021

News in-depthMarkets
The biggest market moments of 2021
From the GameStop saga to the Archegos debacle — these are the events that shaped the year
Friday, 10 December, 2021

The Long ViewInvestments
The sell-off in market silliness
Is the rout in speculative investments a blip, a return of sobriety or an ill omen for broader markets?
Friday, 10 December, 2021

ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
Ark’s Cathie Wood: ‘Queen of the bull market’ faces her toughest test
Concentrated bets on disruptive companies have left the pioneering ETF company vulnerable as sentiment shifts
Tuesday, 7 December, 2021

The Big Read
The next quant revolution: shaking up the corporate bond market
Corporate credit has been largely untouched by computer-driven trading, but some investors are trying to change that
Monday, 6 December, 2021

ARK Investment Management LLC
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest slumps as tech bets sour
Star manager’s flagship fund has fallen by a quarter this year as investors ditch tech stocks
Monday, 6 December, 2021

Transcript
The ‘Tesla-financial complex’
The company’s outsized influence in financial markets may not be due to its market capitalisation
Monday, 6 December, 2021

FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
The Tesla-financial complex
EU auto suppliers say half a million jobs at risk under EU plans to ban combustion-engine cars
Wednesday, 1 December, 2021

Transcript
Stock market fragility
Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell spooks investors with hawkish tone on Tuesday
Wednesday, 1 December, 2021

FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
Stock market fragility
Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell spooks investors with hawkish tone on Tuesday
Monday, 29 November, 2021

Markets InsightMarkets volatility
Markets are more fragile than investors think
Calm trading conditions are increasingly interspersed with sharp bouts of volatility
Friday, 26 November, 2021

Capital markets
New coronavirus variant shakes investors out of pandemic slumber
Discovery of mutated virus abruptly pulls Covid back on to market radar
Tuesday, 23 November, 2021

The Big Read
The ‘Tesla-financial complex’: how carmaker gained influence over the markets
The company’s role in the ebb and flow of the stock market is far greater than its $1.1tn valuation implies
Monday, 22 November, 2021

Tesla Inc
Tesla short sellers back down after meteoric rise
Elon Musk ‘better at playing the public company game than anybody’, says Carson Block