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Pollution causes CEOs: study

If you want to be the boss, it helps to have mild cognitive impairment from prenatal exposure to toxic waste

FTAV’s Friday charts quiz

He Would Have Graphed

US companies
The Proxies 2025: A celebration of substantial corporate perks

Be the boss; pay no costs

Trump tariffs
Desperately coining new Mexican-flavoured market acronyms in an attempt to go viral

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US banks
The $1tn shadow bank lending boom

‘This is a sensitive trade-off that has not always been well managed in the banking industry’

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US Treasury bonds
Look at JGBs, they’re the captain now

Ground zero for the global duration dump

Investing in funds
To beat their enemy, have active managers become their enemy?

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Management
The most expensive coffee is the one you don’t buy

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