The Financial Times is one of the best sources for news and for opinion pieces on finance. The FT is a top read of finance professionals in banks, hedge funds, private equity, traders, and asset managers around the world.
Faculty and students can expect to find the following on FT.com:
- Timely, comprehensive analysis of global market movements
- Finance trends, such as the turn to private equity and ETFs, investment in ESG, potential areas of risk, coverage of global banks, and regulatory changes
Here is an example of how the FT can help with the study of Finance:
- Keep up to date following important themes related to Finance by adding these topics to your myFT.
- Markets, Commodities, Equities, Investment Banking, M&A, Financial Markets Regulation, ESG Investing, Private Equity
- Subscribe to newsletters to receive the best content on topics relevant to Finance such as:
- Market Forces (Daily summary of the markets)
- Moral Money (about ESG trends, including changes in corporate governance)
- Due Diligence (Tues-Fri, about M&A, PE, Investor Activism, IPOs, and more)
- Develop a critical eye and intellectual curiosity by following world renowned journalists. You can do this by searching their name and selecting ‘Add to myFT.’ The following are recommended to follow to aid your studies.
- Gillian Tett (Chair of Editorial Board & Editor-at-Large, US), Lex (Analysis of companies in the news), Robin Wigglesworth (Global Finance Correspondent), Alphaville (Finance and economics blog)
- Interactive learning tools
- Podcasts, Videos, Online games, FT Graphics/data