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  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    Soros foundations to scale back activity in Europe

    NGOs fear funding cuts threaten defence of liberal values in EU

    People attend a rally outside George Soros’s Central European University to protest against the institution being forced out of Budapest by Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán, 2018
  • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
    George Soros hands over OSF leadership to his son

    Alex Soros pledges as foundation head to ‘double down’ on defending voting rights and personal freedoms

    Alex Soros attends a dinner speech event hosted by George Soros in May 2022
  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
    Beny Steinmetz
    Mining tycoon Steinmetz blames Soros after losing bribery appeal

    Swiss court upholds conviction of Israeli billionaire over Guinea iron ore deposit case

    Beny Steinmetz
  • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
    Adani Group
    Adani’s woes will spur ‘democratic revival in India’, Soros says

    PM Narendra Modi will ‘have to answer questions’ over fraud allegations targeting his business ally

    George Soros speaks at an event last year
  • Monday, 31 October, 2022
    Gilts
    George Soros: Issuing perpetual bonds would show that Sunak is serious

    The new UK premier needs to reassure financial markets after the chaos caused by Truss and Kwarteng

    Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, must find a way to balance market worries about deficit spending with the risk of causing a full-blown financial crisis through excessive austerity
  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    Global Economy
    Sombre and uncertain mood descends on Davos

    From foreign affairs to food crises, most business leaders have turned bearish because of global uncertainty

    People walk past the World Economic Forum logo during the forum in Davos, Switzerland May 23 2022
  • Monday, 30 August, 2021
    Chinese business & finance
    Investors in Xi’s China face a rude awakening

    The leader’s crackdown on private enterprise shows he does not understand the market economy

    Xi Jinping regards all Chinese companies as instruments of a one-party state
  • Sunday, 18 July, 2021
    Health sector
    Soros and Gates back buyout of UK diagnostic technology group

    Mologic will be turned into a social enterprise for testing tropical diseases

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
    Myanmar
    Myanmar junta targets George Soros’s philanthropic foundation

    Move against NGO part of plan to link Aung San Suu Kyi with foreign interests, analysts warn

    A female demonstrator practices with a slingshot during a protest against the military coup in Yangon
  • Thursday, 17 September, 2020
    Due Diligence
    Hedge funds: Mayfair’s champagne drought Premium content

    Managers across the Atlantic have been making higher returns, and assets tend to follow returns

  • Tuesday, 1 September, 2020
    Financial services
    Soros-backed football finance lender 23 Capital winds down

    Co-founders split up with one looking to create new vehicle focusing on European clubs

  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    Hedge funds
    Macro hedge funds enjoy unlikely renaissance

    Market volatility caused by the pandemic has been a boon for investors making big economic bets

  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2020
    Syrian crisis
    Europe must stand with Turkey over Putin’s war crimes in Syria

    Focusing on the refugee crisis Russia has created addresses symptoms not the cause

    Internally displaced Syrians are seen in an IDP camp located in Idlib, Syria February 27, 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RC289F9CX4ST
  • Thursday, 23 January, 2020
    Populism
    George Soros launches $1bn move to educate against nationalism

    Philanthropist unleashes outspoken attacks on populist leaders such as Trump and Xi

    Hungarian-born US investor and philanthropist George Soros delivers a speech on the sideline of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, on January 23, 2020 in Davos, eastern Switzerland. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Monday, 18 November, 2019
    Valerie Hopkins
    George Soros waves goodbye to Budapest

    The university he founded has fallen prey to Viktor Orban’s war on liberal values

    George Soros opens the Central European University, which he founded, in Vienna. It has relocated from Hungary after Mr Soros became a target of Viktor Orban's nationalist government
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2019
    Hedge funds
    Ex-Soros trader leaves hedge fund Key Square to go solo

    Top industry figures are morphing from money managers into consultants

    The "Wall St" street sign is seen near US flags in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on a rainy day on Wall Street in New York City on May 23, 2019. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP)JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images
  • Friday, 24 May, 2019
    LexGAM Holding AG
    GAM/Soros Fund: Swiss tease Premium content

    Billionaire investor’s bet on Swiss asset manager is hard to fathom

    George Soros’s fund has built a 3 per cent stake in GAM
  • Friday, 24 May, 2019
    GAM Holding AG
    George Soros takes stake in crisis-hit GAM

    Move comes as Swiss asset manager makes progress in liquidating funds

  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2019
    UK politics
    UK housing adviser fired after remarks about Soros and Islamophobia
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2019
    David Gardner
    Erdogan’s unsatisfied purge looks beyond the 2016 failed putsch

    Trial backdates ‘conspiracy’ to 2013 and blames the uprising on George Soros

    Members of Taksim solidarity platform pose in front of a banner reading "Darkness will go, Gezi will stay" on March 11, 2019 during a press conference in Istanbul. - Turkish activists at the forefront of the mass 2013 anti-government protests on March 11, 2019, rejected "irrational" and "unlawful" indictment targeting prominent Turkish businessman Osman Kavala and 15 others. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP)OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images
  • Thursday, 14 March, 2019
    Hungary
    Orban apology fails to convince ‘useful idiots’ in EPP 

    Parties have called for Hungary leader’s prime minister’s party to be thrown out of centre-right group

    BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - FEBRUARY 22: People leave from the tram next to a billboard with portraits of European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker and Hungarian-born US billioner George Soros and a slogan reading "You too have a right to know what Brussels is preparing"on February 22, 2019 in Budapest, Hungary.Hungary launched a new anti-immigration media campaign prior the European parliamentary election.(Photo by Laszlo Balogh/Getty images)
  • Tuesday, 19 February, 2019
    Hungary
    Viktor Orban targets Juncker ahead of European elections

    Hungary’s Eurosceptic Fidesz party hits at commission president in campaign poster

    A campaign poster shared on the Hungarian government’s Facebook page shows Jean-Claude Juncker smiling alongside billionaire philanthropist George Soros
  • Thursday, 24 January, 2019
    FT SeriesDavos 2019
    George Soros launches attack on Chinese president Xi

    Billionaire describes use of AI to control citizens as ‘mortal threat’ to open society

    Hungarian-born US investor and philanthropist George Soros delivers a speech on the sideline of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, on January 24, 2019 in Davos, eastern Switzerland. - Billionaire investor George Soros said, on January 24, 2019 that Chinese President Xi Jinping was "the most dangerous enemy" of free societies for presiding over a high-tech surveillance regime. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images
  • Wednesday, 19 December, 2018
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    FT Person of the Year: George Soros

    The philanthropist has become a standard bearer for liberal democracy, an idea under siege from populists

  • Thursday, 6 December, 2018
    Hong Kong watchdog fines Soros-linked fund over short selling
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