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    Brooke Masters

    US Financial Editor

    Brooke Masters is the FT's US Financial editor, and an associate editor. She leads the team of reporters covering financial services in the world's financial capital and writes a business column.

    In 16 years at the FT, she has held a variety of editing, reporting and commentary roles in both New York and London. Among them were opinion and analysis editor, companies editor and chief regulation correspondent. She spent the first part of her career at the Washington Post covering criminal justice, local politics and education.

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    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Fund management
      Wall Street watchdog floats plan to let brokers promise future results

      Finra proposal would allow performance projections in marketing to wealthy and institutional investors

      Finra sign
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      US presidential election 2024
      Wall Street megadonors warm to Nikki Haley as their anti-Trump Republican

      Former US ambassador to the UN praised for ‘muscular foreign policy’ and electability

      Nikki Haley
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Fund management
      Manulife to buy CQS in end of an era for Michael Hintze

      The Tory donor will step back from his firm as the Canadian money manager bulks up in private credit

      Lord Michael Hintze
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
      Who is watching the watchdog when it comes to FDIC behaviour?

      If the agency tolerated alleged sexual harassment and loutish boozing in house, no wonder it has struggled to control the bankers

      The lobby of a large building featuring a poster of a wad of cash
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      On Wall StreetCitigroup Inc
      The perils of Citi’s prolonged restructuring

      Staff left on tenterhooks as they await news of big job cuts across the bank

    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Occidental Petroleum Corp
      BlackRock set to invest $550mn in Occidental direct air capture project

      Move is a sign of support for the world’s largest venture deploying nascent climate technology

      A pipe carrying emissions at a carbon capture project in Washington
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Workplace diversity & equality
      BlackRock study finds gender-balanced companies outperform peers

      World’s largest asset manager publishes report as critics attack ESG factors in investing

      People walk across a pedestrian bridge
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Goldman Sachs Group
      Will Goldman’s big bet on wealth management work?

      David Solomon is counting on the newly merged division to close the bank’s valuation gap — and secure his job

      Marc Nachmann montage with Goldman Sachs logo in the background
    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      Morgan Stanley
      The dangers of succeeding a star CEO

      What can Morgan Stanley’s Ted Pick do after James Gorman?

      Ted Pick, right, who has been appointed Morgan Stanley’s next chief executive, and outgoing CEO James Gorman, during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York last week
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Workplace diversity & equality
      UK financial regulators face City backlash over diversity drive

      Risks to privacy and mandatory data collection on religion flagged as concerns

      The City of London skyline seen from the south side of the river Thames
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      T Rowe Price Group Inc
      Asset manager T Rowe Price warns outflows will persist in 2024

      Shares fall for large US active fund group despite sharp rise in quarterly profit

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    • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
      News in-depthMorgan Stanley
      How Ted Pick won Morgan Stanley’s succession race

      James Gorman took the bank from underdog to the top of Wall Street. The new chief must decide what comes next

      A montage image of Ted Pick and the Morgan Stanley logo in the background
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Middle Eastern finance
      Financiers stick to ‘Davos in the Desert’ plans despite Middle East war

      Larry Fink, Jamie Dimon and Jane Fraser among those expected at Saudi investment conference

      Participants at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh last year
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Food & Beverage
      US cheapskates dampen high-end liquor’s party spirit

      Drinks groups mistook a pandemic bump for a long-term shift

      A man takes a bottle of bourbon from a shelf in a liquor store
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Women in business
      Employers woo women back to work from career breaks

      Retraining and flexible hours help employees fit in after a period away from the workforce

      Two women in an office, discussing and planning ideas
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      BlackRock Inc
      BlackRock profits jump in volatile quarter despite long-term outflows

      Asset manager reports higher than expected technology revenues

      A BlackRock building in New York
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      US financial regulation
      SEC poised to shine light on short selling with stock loan disclosure

      Securities lenders would be forced to report deals within 15 minutes under proposed US rule

      The SEC headquarters in Washington, DC
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Working It podcast17 min listen
      Why successful companies need to be good at failure

      Amy Edmondson says the best work happens when people feel it’s safe to make mistakes

    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Michael Lewis on how Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX fell

      Lewis’s account is among four new books to explore cryptocurrency’s boom and bust, its larger-than-life characters — and the ordinary people who lost so much

    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      US & Canadian companies
      Chief executives really need to lengthen their attention spans

      Their horizons are now often shorter than those of the shareholders they work for

      A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
    • Saturday, 30 September, 2023
      Gramercy Funds Management LLC
      US hedge fund provides record loan for environmental lawsuits

      Gramercy’s $552.5mn funding will support pollution cases against BHP and Vale, and 14 carmakers over ‘dieselgate’

    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      JPMorgan Chase & Co
      JPMorgan’s decision to settle over Epstein was a long time coming

      As the lawsuits dragged on, the more executive time they consumed and the worse the details looked

      JPMorgan’s headquarters in New York
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      US Securities and Exchange Commission
      SEC cracks down on misleading fund names over industry objections

      Changes require ETFs and mutual funds to hold 80% of their assets in line with their labels

      The Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Climate change
      Yellen warns of ‘significant economic costs’ of climate change

      US Treasury sets out new voluntary ‘principles’ to spur investment and combat greenwashing

      Janet Yellen speaking at a meeting in New York on September 18 2023
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Fund management
      Fund industry braced for SEC crackdown on deceptive product labels

      Overhaul would require 80% of a fund’s portfolio to match its name

      Gary Gensler, SEC chair, speaks at a hearing
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