Vanguard doubles down on wealth management
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Hiring has fallen more sharply in the UK than in other big economies over the past year, Vanguard will break its advisory business into a separate unit, and Israel has taken more Syrian territory. Plus, we take a look inside Japan’s audacious bid to become a semiconductor superpower.
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Hiring falling more sharply in UK than in other major economies
Israel draws furious reaction from Egypt after taking more Syrian territory
Vanguard to accelerate wealth management drive in restructuring
Japan’s audacious bid to become a semiconductor superpower
Christie’s has brought the dinosaur auction show to London
The FT News Briefing is produced by Niamh Rowe, Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Josh Gabert-Doyon, Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Joseph Salcedo. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:00.0 | The latest episode of the Next Five podcast is out now and it's all about our energy future. |
| 0:05.4 | I speak with Torgram-Righton, CFO at Equino. |
| 0:08.4 | There's a lot to be done to successfully deliver on ambitions. |
| 0:11.4 | Rebecca Williams, Deputy CEO at Gweck, the Global Wind Energy Council. |
| 0:15.5 | We had the second best year ever when it came to offshore wind. |
| 0:18.3 | And Irina Kostova, research fellow at SEPs, the Centre for European Policy Studies. |
| 0:23.1 | The key pain point will be investment on certainty. |
| 0:26.6 | You can listen to the full episode of the next five wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.8 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:36.3 | Today is Tuesday, December 10th, and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:40.3 | Help wanted signs in the UK are getting harder to find. |
| 0:44.3 | And Vanguard wants to give everyone advice on how to manage their investments. |
| 0:50.3 | Plus, Japan is trying to be the next big thing in chips. |
| 0:55.3 | It's full-throated industrial policy. |
| 0:57.5 | They want to bring back the full ecosystem of semiconductors to Japan. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm Kasha Brusalian, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 1:18.7 | Hiremen. Hiring is falling faster in the U.K. than in other major economies. |
| 1:24.0 | The number of job postings there are down by almost 25% since last year. |
| 1:28.8 | It's a bigger drop than in countries like the U.S., Germany, and Australia. |
| 1:34.7 | That's all according to figures published by the job site, indeed. Now, economists are pointing to a few reasons for the disparity. For one, UK companies are grappling with things like |
| 1:40.6 | slow growth and rising wages. But on top of this, the labor government recently |
| 1:45.6 | increased employment taxes, and that might also be keeping recruiters away. |
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