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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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  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Phoenix Group Holdings PLC
    Phoenix takes stake in Hambro Perks in push to invest pensions in private companies

    The UK government is encouraging more retirement savings into higher-growth areas

    A person holds a smartphone with a Hambro Perks logo on it in front of a computer screen
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Fund management
    Silchester-backed asset management boutique shuts its doors

    Fortunes of Sanderson Asset Management highlights challenge of executing a successful succession

    Skyline view of the City of London financial district from the viewpoint in Greenwich Park
  • 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

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