Jonathan Ford is the City editor of the FT, and writes a weekly column about business and finance.
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Review says bank’s compensation scheme ‘not fair and reasonable’
But results will only follow if governments take the lead
The entrepreneur founded two events companies using lessons from an early career in counter terrorism
Labour pledges on water and telecoms trigger pre-emptive defensive moves and talks with lawyers
Its routine abuse is fuelling both bubbles and populist politics
The real worry is what happens afterwards
Clean-up and waste storage are not the barriers they sometimes seem
Thomas Cook case shows how the rules can help to obscure corporate frailty
Decarbonisation will be hard enough without zapping one consistent zero-carbon source
Less momentum investing would benefit everyone
Pensions experts concerned over PRA’s readiness to nod through asset transfer from Prudential to Rothesay
Two new books argue for profound change to break the political logjam on climate change
Financial engineering allows buyouts to extract superior returns without running companies better
Relying on accounting standards to police provisioning is a vain hope
Value maximisation strategies sit poorly with entities providing public goods
The next challenge is to drive down the costs of intermittency
Real challenge is to persuade asset owners to approach investment differently
When compared with public markets on a consistent basis, they are not so stellar
Fee structures encourage excessive debt and transfer too much value to insiders
The party wants to change the way companies are owned. But are its ideas fuelled by 1970s nostalgia?
Intriguing dual-autonomy proposal might be one way of squaring the border circle
Investors seeking compensation could bring lawsuits under bilateral treaties
Changing it will require more than a fund manager’s change of heart
Fair-weather strategy carries risk for investors
Sensible society would not allow these groups to rig odds as they gamble with economy
