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  • Can the world’s largest listed hedge fund rebound?
    Oct 22 2025

    The world’s largest listed hedge fund manager, Man Group, is at a crossroads. After years of high flying thanks to its innovative quant trading strategies, the company’s hedge fund unit has been faltering. Recently, the performance of Man Group’s core business has been lacklustre, and some institutional investors have pulled their money. The FT’s hedge fund correspondent Costas Mourselas analyses which strategies Man Group may pursue to rebound.


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    For further reading:

    Can the world’s largest listed hedge fund rebound?

    Man Group’s hedge fund blues

    Robyn Grew: the ‘force of nature’ named Man Group chief executive


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    Follow Costas Mourselas on X (@CostasMourselas). Michela Tindera is on X (@mtindera07) and Bluesky (@mtindera.ft.com), or follow her on LinkedIn for updates about the show and more.


    Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

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    19 minutos
  • Introducing Untold: Toxic Legacy
    Oct 16 2025

    Introducing Toxic Legacy, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. Host Laura Hughes uncovers a lead poisoning epidemic across the UK. You might be living with lead and not know it: the toxin is often invisible to the human eye, but wreaks havoc on our bodies once we’re exposed. The first episode of Untold: Toxic Legacy launches October 22.


    Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts or wherever you get your podcasts.


    For information on how to live safely with lead, please visit the LEAPP Alliance website.



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    2 minutos
  • The meltdown at Nestlé
    Oct 15 2025

    From KitKat candy bars to Perrier mineral water, Nestlé owns thousands of brands. But recently the world’s largest food and beverage company has severely underperformed its rivals in the wider consumer goods sector. The business is also emerging from a scandal involving its most recent chief executive. The FT’s consumer industries reporter Madeleine Speed explains how Nestlé’s challenges fit into an industry under pressure from shareholders, and what plans the group’s new leadership are considering.


    Clips from TBS/YouTube and Nestlé


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    For further reading:

    The meltdown at Nestlé

    Nestlé’s CEO ousting makes case for corporate ‘veep’

    Denials and defiance: Nestlé chief’s exit over relationship prompts investor unrest


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    Follow Madeleine Speed on X (@SpeedMaddie). Michela Tindera is on X (@mtindera07) and Bluesky (@mtindera.ft.com), or follow her on LinkedIn for updates about the show and more.


    Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

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    20 minutos
  • Elon Musk and the end of a telecom tycoon’s dream
    Oct 8 2025

    In recent weeks, satellite business EchoStar has clinched multibillion-dollar deals with SpaceX and AT&T. It may sound like boom times for founder Charlie Ergen, but these deals illustrate something different: the abandoning of an ambitious, decades-long quest to build his own mobile phone network. The FT’s Wall Street editor Sujeet Indap and US trading and crypto correspondent Jill R Shah explain how Ergen’s fortunes changed, and the role Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump played in that.


    Clips from CNBC, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Echostar/Vimeo


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    For further reading:

    How a deal with Elon Musk helped a telecoms tycoon save his company from bankruptcy

    Trump forces billionaire to fold

    Charlie Ergen: Media mogul at a Sprint


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    Follow Sujeet Indap on X (@sindap), or on Bluesky (@sindap.bsky.social). Follow Jill Shah on X (@jillrshah). Michela Tindera is on X (@mtindera07) and Bluesky (@mtindera.ft.com), or follow her on LinkedIn for updates about the show and more.


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    24 minutos
  • Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Mission to Mars
    Oct 6 2025

    US President Donald Trump has pledged to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”, China could send its first crewed mission to Mars within a decade, and Elon Musk wants people to actually settle on Mars, transforming the human race into an interplanetary species.


    In a new series of Tech Tonic, the FT’s Peggy Hollinger asks if we’re really about to land, and even live, on the red planet.


    Free to read:


    Musk’s mission to Mars


    Three days with America’s rocket chasers


    Tech Tonic is produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval. The senior producer is Edwin Lane. Flo Phillips is the executive producer. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Original music by Metaphor Music. Manuela Saragosa is the FT’s acting co-head of audio.

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    2 minutos
  • The unsustainable boom in India’s Silicon Valley
    Oct 1 2025

    India’s tech hub Bangalore has experienced huge growth of companies and employees in the past two decades. But the city’s infrastructure is not keeping up with such rapid growth. With the tech sector contributing more than $300bn to the nation’s economy, what happens to the country’s growth if Bangalore can’t solve its issues? The FT’s Mumbai bureau chief Chris Kay and Mumbai correspondent Krishn Kaushik travelled to Bangalore to try to find out.


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    For further reading:

    The unsustainable boom in India’s Silicon Valley

    Multinationals turn to India’s back offices for AI engineers

    Indian IT shares fall over fears from Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee


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    Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

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    23 minutos
  • Vote for Behind the Money in the Signal Awards!
    Sep 26 2025

    Behind the Money has been nominated for a Signal Award in the Money & Finance category! It's a Listener Choice award, which means we need your help. Vote for us to win here. We appreciate your support!


    And while you're at it, vote for some other FT podcasts that have also been nominated. The FT News Briefing podcast was nominated for best daily podcast category. Vote here. And our Tech Tonic podcast was nominated for best technology podcast. Vote here.




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    1 minuto
  • A subprime auto lender collapsed. Wall Street has questions
    Sep 24 2025

    The recent collapse of Tricolor Holdings, a subprime auto lender in Texas, has left a trail of losses and questions from Wall Street to low-income immigrant communities throughout the American south-west. The FT’s US banking correspondent Akila Quinio, and Amelia Pollard, US investment correspondent, explain what they’ve found.


    Clip from Fifth Third


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    For further reading:

    Tricolor collapse sparks concern about health of US subprime auto sector

    Debt linked to collapsed subprime auto lender Tricolor tumbles

    JPMorgan and Fifth Third face losses tied to collapsed subprime car lender


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    Follow Amelia Pollard on X (@ameliajpollard) and Bluesky (@pollard.bsky.social) and Akila Quinio on X (@akilazoe). Michela Tindera is on X (@mtindera07) and Bluesky (@mtindera.ft.com), or follow her on LinkedIn for updates about the show and more.


    Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

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    20 minutos