12 h. ago This Goldman Sachs team in London looks perfect for hedge fund jobs

This Goldman Sachs team in London looks perfect for hedge fund jobs  eFinancialCareers

Politics

19 h. ago WH Smith travel profits surge as company prepares to sell high street arm

The historic retailer announced last month that it is selling its high street business to a private equity firm in a £76 million deal.

Politics

57 h. ago Leda Braga’s Systematica suffers as Trump’s trade war hits quant hedge funds

Sharp market reversals have wrongfooted many computer-driven traders betting on market trends

Events

64 h. ago Belgian insurer buys Sheilas’ Wheels owner Esure in £1.3bn deal

Ageas acquisition will unite two ‘complementary’ firms to create UK’s third-biggest home and motor insurerBusiness live – latest updatesThe Sheilas’ Wheels owner, Esure, will be sold to the Belgian insurer Ageas in a £1.3bn deal that will create the UK’s third-biggest home and motor insurer.Ageas is buying the UK insurer from the private equity firm Bain Capital in a deal funded through a combination of surplus cash and debt or equity. Continue reading...

Economics

3 d. ago Hedge fund billionaire says US may face ‘worse than a recession’ from Trump tariffs

Ray Dalio’s comments come after rocky week across stock markets after policies including 145% tariff raise on ChinaPeople in the US: tell us how you think Trump’s first 100 days have gone so farBillionaire investor Ray Dalio said that he is worried the US will experience “something worse than a recession” as a result of Donald Trump’s trade policies.Speaking to NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, the 75-year-old hedge fund manager said: “I think that right now we are at a decision-making point and very close to a recession. And I’m worried about something worse than a recession if this isn’t handled well.” Continue reading...

Economics

3 d. ago Billionaire hedge fund leader warns US facing something ‘worse than a recession’

US ‘very close’ to a recession after weeks of Trump tariff instability, warns Ray Dalio

Events

5 d. ago Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary shaping Trump’s trade war

The former hedge fund manager is being asked to lead negotiations with foreign governments amid America’s self-inflicted hit

Politics

5 d. ago Top portfolio manager wisely disappeared from London hedge fund in February

Top portfolio manager wisely disappeared from London hedge fund in February  eFinancialCareers

Events

5 d. ago Did hedge fund 'masters of the universe' force Trump into tariffs U

Donald Trump executed an extraordinary U-turn by pausing the bulk of his 'Liberation Day' levies on trading partners for three months.

Politics

5 d. ago Your Friends & Neighbours review – Jon Hamm’s fun new drama is like The White Lotus back from holiday

Taking his first lead in a prestige TV drama since Mad Men, the actor is brilliant. He is on suave, nuanced form in a very funny show – which could use a little more bite You can understand why it might take an actor a while to tackle another dramatic lead role on television when their first was a life-changing, career-defining part in a critically acclaimed landmark TV drama that ran for eight superlative seasons. But it is 10 years since Mad Men ended and only now is Jon Hamm re-entering the fray. He has mostly been busy with comedy roles in the intervening years. Now, he returns to the type of part that made his name: era-specific masculinity under siege from a prestige production bent on feeding us our own horrors back to us in chunks. This time it is about the fall from grace of a New York hedge fund manager, Andrew Cooper – think a modern, misogyny-lite Don Draper, but one who loves his kids and really is who he says he is.The opening scene has Cooper coming to on a marble flo...

Events

7 d. ago Jon Hamm steals expensive stuff and likely viewers' hearts in Apple TV+'s 'Your Friends & Neighbors'

“Your Friends & Neighbors” begins with a once high-flying hedge fund manager waking up in someone else’s luxurious house, next to a dead body and in a pool of blood

Events

8 d. ago Scott Bessent takes the lead as countries queue to make US trade deal

Former hedge fund’s role marks shift away from tariff hardliners in Trump’s White House

Economics

8 d. ago Quant hedge fund Renaissance suffers steep losses in tariff tumult

Computer-driven asset manager’s institutional equity strategy down 8% in April

Economics

9 d. ago US government debt sells off as hedge funds cut down on risk

10-year Treasury yields jump most in almost three years

Politics

9 d. ago Donald Trump's 'tariff war' will cause 'economic nuclear winter' claims billionaire supporter

Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has warned that Trump's tariffs will 'destroy confidence' in the US for trading and investment.

Economics

9 d. ago UK to dilute rules for smaller private equity firms and hedge funds

Government proposes lighter regulatory regime in push to encourage investment

Economics

1 week ago Britain to dilute rules for smaller private equity firms and hedge funds

UK government proposes lifting regulation threshold from £100mn of funds under management to £5bn

Economics

1 week ago Your Friends & Neighbors: Jon Hamm’s addictive turn as a gentleman thief is his best role since Mad Men

This blackly comic, propulsively fun tale of a disgraced hedge fund manager turned crook is all about the one-time Don Draper. He lifts the whole thingJon Hamm has one of the great TV faces. Square-jawed and ruggedly suave, it’s the face of a matinee idol with a dangerous edge. The quiff is well-coiffed but grey-flecked. That Marlboro Man chin looks unshaven by lunchtime. Those hooded eyes have a weary, lounge lizard quality. One of his first Hollywood parts was a 1997 episode of Ally McBeal, where he played the aptly named “Gorgeous Guy at Bar”. A decade later, Hamm became the alpha face of a certain prestige drama. Ad Men, was it? Mad Dogs? Something like that.Your Friends & Neighbors (Apple TV+, 11 April) is a fitting new vehicle for Hamm’s slippery good looks. The launch episode is bookended by shots of his big, mildly befuddled face in screen-filling closeup. This show knows exactly what’s it’s doing. It is blackly comic, frothily fun and highly moreish. Continue readi...

Politics

1 week ago Hedge funds hit with steepest margin calls since 2020 Covid crisis

Banks ask clients to stump up additional money as global market sell-off knocks value of holdings

Events

1 week ago Your Friends & Neighbors to Black Mirror: the seven best shows to stream this week

Jon Hamm stars as a gentlemen thief in a very entertaining midlife-crisis satire. Plus: Charlie Brooker’s hit series is back with another sensational castManifesting his signature blend of unshakeable self-confidence and understated self-loathing, Jon Hamm stars in this midlife-crisis satire. Coop (Hamm) is a hedge fund manager who, after years gazing down at the world from an ivory tower, finds his life falling apart. His wife has gone, his kids are expensive, his sister’s mental health problems are getting worse and he’s lost his job. “Your biggest mistake,” his boss tells him, “was thinking any of this was ever yours.” At a barbecue hosted by friends, he has an idea: the people around him are awful and undeservedly rich – so why not rob them? Soon, everything is spiralling out of control in very entertaining fashion. Apple TV+, from Friday 11 April Continue reading...

Culture