An audience with
Goldman wealth boss: Clients should have ‘significant exposure’ to private assets
The Wall Street bank wants to scale in the UK, Robert Mullane tells FN, despite an exodus of wealthy non-doms
Why Emily Monastiriotis’ 13-year-old told her to go for the top job at Simmons & Simmons
Simmons & Simmons’ managing partner grew up in a village on Corfu. Coming to England to become a lawyer was a culture shock. Now she says internationalising is the City law firm’s ‘biggest opportunity’
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Singer Capital’s Tim Cockroft: Spinning off AIM could boost London’s stock market
Cockroft has spent almost four decades at the coal face of London’s changing stock market. That has given him a unique perspective on how to fix it
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‘Big won’t always win’: Why Quilter Cheviot wants to be more like a private bank
Boss Andy McGlone says high-end planners running fewer accounts is the future of UK wealth
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An audience with Barbara Pozdorovkina: ‘Crypto rules will unleash digital demand’
LMAX’s growth officer has helped transform the gambling firm subsidiary into an institutional FX trading powerhouse. It’s now trying to build a new, tokenised future for capital markets
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Shawn Edwards: ‘At Bloomberg, the technologists are the rock stars’
The financial data giant’s chief technology officer is using AI to fight a problem of the firm’s own creation — the ever‑growing ‘fire hose of information’ coming through its flagship Terminal
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An audience with Bryan Corbett: ‘It’s important that companies have the ability to go public’
The head of the alternative investment trade body on why private markets are booming everywhere and will survive a regulatory crackdown
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Barings boss Mike Freno on the art of the private markets deal
While many asset managers have just started pushing into private markets, Barings has been for 175 years. Its CEO explains what works, and what doesn’t
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Sophie Kennedy: ‘Becoming CEO of a wealth manager at 33 didn’t faze me’
The co-CEO of EQ Investors has weathered Trump and the ESG backlash. Now comes another challenge as its founder considers selling the business
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Natasha Harrison: ‘I made a career out of being adverse to Credit Suisse’
Once heir-apparent to David Boies, Harrison reveals what she’s incorporated into her own business, Pallas Partners, from her time at UK and US firms
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Euronext’s Stéphane Boujnah: ‘If things go wrong for crypto, we’ve a lot more to lose than FTX’
The head of Europe’s biggest stock exchange opens up about his next steps
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Komainu’s Paul Frost-Smith: ‘Trump has put the US back in our priorities’
Komainu has just completed the first ever Series B round funded in bitcoin. Its co-chief executive tells FN why he’s confident digital assets still have a future
From the Full Monty to fund management: Why Rupert Harrison swapped politics for BlackRock
George Osborne’s former chief of staff says asset managers have to evolve — and explains why he used to have a screen dedicated to Donald Trump’s Tweets
Fiera Capital’s Klaus Schuster: ‘You follow where the big private banks go’
Fiera Capital’s Emea boss says the asset manager is slowing its breakneck pace of acquisitions to focus more on wealth management
Bank of England director David Bailey: Cap on bankers’ bonuses was a bad idea
Threadneedle Street’s number two on prudential policy discusses government pressure to grow and why pay limits were a bad idea
Houlihan Lokey CEO Scott Adelson: ‘This is a Goldilocks moment for us’
The ‘accidental investment banker’ has been at Houlihan Lokey his whole life — and his expansion plans include getting ‘an awful lot’ of others to join him
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An Audience With M&G’s Fabiana Fedeli: ‘Volatility and geopolitics don’t necessarily hurt companies’
M&G’s CIO for equities, multi-asset and sustainability on active management in uncertain times and what the UK can do to breathe life into its stock market
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Foresight’s Bernard Fairman: ‘We need a UK Elon Musk’
The private equity manager’s co‑founder says London’s markets have many problems, including tedious reporting rules, but it takes a lot to beat the City
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Simmons & Simmons boss on stepping down: ‘Hope people don’t say, “That bastard Hoyland has left me with this problem”’
Simmons & Simmons’s boss is stepping down and heading to Italy for a new role. He hopes he’s left the law firm in good shape and ready to deal with AI
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Rathbones’ CEO Paul Stockton: ‘We’re a bit more Middle England than Monaco’
The 280-year-old wealth manager Rathbones has learnt new tricks from its Investec merger and is ready to embrace passive investment and Instagram
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