Reeves to force council pensions to consolidate into 8 ‘megafunds’
UK chancellor Rachel Reeves is to legislate to develop eight pension “megafunds” as part of reforms to Britain’s fragmented local government retirement scheme that she claims could unlock £80bn of ...
Finding freedom in later life
Convenience, opportunity and freedom are the focus for a new generation of over-65s The over-65s are a rapidly growing age group and an increasingly healthy and wealthy group too. Data from the Office ...
lifestyle in later life
Riverstone is blazing a trail in the exclusive later-life market with a concept that goes beyond simply providing desirable private homes and extensive communal amenities. It has created a vibrant ...
The Met’s secret employee art show is no longer secret
The man is Daniel Kershaw, senior exhibition designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This show is unlike any other under his purview. It’s the employee show, Art Work: Artists Working at the Met, ...
Transcript: Swamp Notes — How can Democrats rebuild?
Sonja Hutson This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News Briefing where we talk about all of the things happening in US politics. I’m Sonja Hutson. And this week we’re asking: what’s the ...
Trump’s victory will change America. But Europe can have a different future
Democratic norms look unusually fragile in the US. Historian Mark Mazower argues that it is an outlier, not a precursor ...
L&G to axe jobs in new asset management division
L&G, which manages more than £1.1tn, is aiming for its asset management business to reach £500mn-£600mn in operating profits by 2028 and is seeking to expand its private markets business from £52bn to ...
Investors want more urgency from Europe in tackling its economic problems
One striking feature of that period, though, was that it showed Europe does take decisive action when its markets — particularly its bonds and currency — are in freefall. In that narrow sense, ...
Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann at Fondation Louis Vuitton — the American nude via Matisse
Halfway through Fondation Louis Vuitton’s enjoyable and unexpected exhibition Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann & . . . a bright red phone rings. It is mounted bang centre in Wesselmann’s 1963 painting ...
Martha Stewart and the making of a modern American icon
Why a new documentary about the world’s most famous homemaker helped crystallise my feelings about Donald Trump ...
‘It’s postcolonial but doesn’t know it’ — a ‘Ballet Shoes’ for our age
As Katy Rudd brings the children’s classic to London’s National Theatre, can it enjoy the success of adaptations like ‘Matilda’ and ‘War Horse’?
Squid Game is back — and darker than ever
Hwang Dong-hyuk, creator of the most-watched show in Netflix history, on taking his ultra-violent critique of capitalism to the next level ...