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  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2019
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    Review says bank’s compensation scheme ‘not fair and reasonable’

  • Sunday, 8 December, 2019
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    The entrepreneur founded two events companies using lessons from an early career in counter terrorism

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    Labour pledges on water and telecoms trigger pre-emptive defensive moves and talks with lawyers

  • Sunday, 1 December, 2019
    Inside BusinessPrivate equity
    Self-interest demands better policing of limited liability

    Its routine abuse is fuelling both bubbles and populist politics

  • Sunday, 24 November, 2019
    Inside BusinessUK nationalisation
    Cost is not the main issue with Labour’s nationalisation plans

    The real worry is what happens afterwards

  • Sunday, 17 November, 2019
    Inside BusinessNuclear energy
    Nuclear liabilities need to be put in clearer perspective

    Clean-up and waste storage are not the barriers they sometimes seem

  • Sunday, 10 November, 2019
    Thomas Cook Group PLC
    Modern accounting plays fast and loose with limited liability

    Thomas Cook case shows how the rules can help to obscure corporate frailty

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    FT Books Essay
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  • Sunday, 20 October, 2019
    Inside BusinessPrivate equity
    Why private equity is eroding the IPO market

    Financial engineering allows buyouts to extract superior returns without running companies better

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    Inside BusinessBanks
    Only prudence can keep bank accounts honest

    Relying on accounting standards to police provisioning is a vain hope

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    Private equity has inflated US medical bills

    Value maximisation strategies sit poorly with entities providing public goods

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    Inside BusinessRenewable energy
    Outlook improves but offshore wind is not yet subsidy-free

    The next challenge is to drive down the costs of intermittency

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    Inside BusinessESG investing
    Business Roundtable’s makeover does not go far enough

    Real challenge is to persuade asset owners to approach investment differently

  • Sunday, 15 September, 2019
    Inside BusinessPrivate equity
    Private equity returns are not all they seem

    When compared with public markets on a consistent basis, they are not so stellar

  • Sunday, 8 September, 2019
    Inside BusinessPrivate equity
    The exorbitant privilege of private equity firms

    Fee structures encourage excessive debt and transfer too much value to insiders

  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2019
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    The party wants to change the way companies are owned. But are its ideas fuelled by 1970s nostalgia?

  • Sunday, 1 September, 2019
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    Britain needs a win-win deal on the Irish backstop

    Intriguing dual-autonomy proposal might be one way of squaring the border circle

  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2019
    AnalysisUK nationalisation
    Labour nationalisation plans risk ‘flood of claims’

    Investors seeking compensation could bring lawsuits under bilateral treaties

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    Inside BusinessUK labour productivity
    Britain’s perverse bonus culture is hurting the economy

    Changing it will require more than a fund manager’s change of heart

  • Sunday, 4 August, 2019
    Inside BusinessShare buy-backs
    Boeing and the siren call of share buybacks

    Fair-weather strategy carries risk for investors

  • Sunday, 28 July, 2019
    Inside BusinessPrivate equity
    Elizabeth Warren is right to worry about private equity looting

    Sensible society would not allow these groups to rig odds as they gamble with economy

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