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Fund management

Another problem with IRRs

Idiotic return ratings

And the FTAV chart quiz winner is . . .

Pension investment

FTAV Q&A: Rob Gardner

The founder of Redington talks inflation, children’s books, St James’s Place and natural capital

FTAV’s Friday charts quiz

A quiz about charts

Financial & markets regulation

The details of Jane Street’s alleged ‘sinister scheme’ in India

A sticky wicket

Valve conquered PC gaming. What comes next?

Peering inside one of the tech world’s strangest companies

FTAV’s further reading

Monetising primacy; Nick Cage FTW; the real Salt Path; Stoicism; buyback execution issues

Stablecoins might revolutionise payments, but what if they don’t?

What will come out of the Fed’s latest internal review?

RIP FAIT. We hardly knew ye

AQR Capital Management LLC

Are bigger AI models better stock pickers? Maybe, but probably not

Complexity ain’t all that, wonks say

High yield bonds

Warner Bros Discovery’s ‘Red Divorce’

Even the index providers are puzzled by the ambush

US financial regulation

The ‘we’re still dancing’ quote of our time

This will probably age badly

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Private credit
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