Robin Wigglesworth
@robinwigglesworth.ft.com
Editor of FT Alphaville. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
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It's never truly Xmas till the @alphaville.ft.com Person of Interest list arrives
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Person of Interest 2025: the longlist
A 12th annual celebration of cancellation
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December 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It's never truly Xmas till the @alphaville.ft.com Person of Interest list arrives
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It’s been a good year.
December 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It’s been a good year.
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Happy Friday, we got you a long read on where Handel, Keynes, Newton, Turner and Darwin might day-trade if they'd been born in a different century and chosen to waste their lives.
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Which genius from history would have been the best investor?
FTAV goes hedge fund headhunting through the ages
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December 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Happy Friday, we got you a long read on where Handel, Keynes, Newton, Turner and Darwin might day-trade if they'd been born in a different century and chosen to waste their lives.
www.ft.com/content/5d21...
www.ft.com/content/5d21...
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New FT Magazine cover story out today - How a failed baseball player and ex-Merrill Lynch broker became an international arms dealer.
December 20, 2025 at 7:14 AM
New FT Magazine cover story out today - How a failed baseball player and ex-Merrill Lynch broker became an international arms dealer.
When did Tottenham become Millwall?
December 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
When did Tottenham become Millwall?
Giving someone a subscription to FT Alphaville’s newsletter is the ultimate Christmas move (because it’s free).
Heres the latest ‘stack, featuring what investors are worried about in 2026 and “a Galilean dialogue” on index funds and private equity. open.substack.com/pub/ftav/p/n...
Heres the latest ‘stack, featuring what investors are worried about in 2026 and “a Galilean dialogue” on index funds and private equity. open.substack.com/pub/ftav/p/n...
No one knows anything. Let's ask them about that
Also: passive investing, quant turbulence, rotisserie chickens, and football finances
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December 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Giving someone a subscription to FT Alphaville’s newsletter is the ultimate Christmas move (because it’s free).
Heres the latest ‘stack, featuring what investors are worried about in 2026 and “a Galilean dialogue” on index funds and private equity. open.substack.com/pub/ftav/p/n...
Heres the latest ‘stack, featuring what investors are worried about in 2026 and “a Galilean dialogue” on index funds and private equity. open.substack.com/pub/ftav/p/n...
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The new way to lose money gambling is very similar to the old way to lose money gambling.
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Prediction markets barely make money; sportsbooks make money
Kalshi’s ‘truth machine’ is financialising differences of opinion (about sports)
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December 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The new way to lose money gambling is very similar to the old way to lose money gambling.
www.ft.com/content/1ac0...
www.ft.com/content/1ac0...
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Person of Interest 2025: the longlist
A 12th annual celebration of cancellation
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
We introduced a twist to Alphaville’s charts quiz this week. You have have to identify who *made* the charts rather than what they show. Oh and there’s 12 of them, but you have all christmas to come up with your guesses. www.ft.com/content/2245...
FTAV’s Christmas charts quiz
On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me twelve charts a’charting
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December 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We introduced a twist to Alphaville’s charts quiz this week. You have have to identify who *made* the charts rather than what they show. Oh and there’s 12 of them, but you have all christmas to come up with your guesses. www.ft.com/content/2245...
We examined the trading results of some historical geniuses and allocated them to firms that might suit them today.
Keynes to TCI, JMW Turner to Jane Street, Darwin to Brevan Howard, Newton to Andurand, and Churchill gets some pity seed money from Bill Hwang. www.ft.com/content/5d21...
Keynes to TCI, JMW Turner to Jane Street, Darwin to Brevan Howard, Newton to Andurand, and Churchill gets some pity seed money from Bill Hwang. www.ft.com/content/5d21...
Which genius from history would have been the best investor?
FTAV goes hedge fund headhunting through the ages
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
We examined the trading results of some historical geniuses and allocated them to firms that might suit them today.
Keynes to TCI, JMW Turner to Jane Street, Darwin to Brevan Howard, Newton to Andurand, and Churchill gets some pity seed money from Bill Hwang. www.ft.com/content/5d21...
Keynes to TCI, JMW Turner to Jane Street, Darwin to Brevan Howard, Newton to Andurand, and Churchill gets some pity seed money from Bill Hwang. www.ft.com/content/5d21...
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This is a total treasure trove every year for anyone who likes to read.
The design is unnecessarily nice too
The design is unnecessarily nice too
Here's a roundup of FT journalists' favourite non-FT stories of 2025. The winner features snail orgies in the lede. www.ft.com/content/72d0...
FT journalists pick their favourite non-FT articles of the year
Everything you should read that we didn’t write
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December 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This is a total treasure trove every year for anyone who likes to read.
The design is unnecessarily nice too
The design is unnecessarily nice too
It’s a big day for central banks around the world today, so naturally Alphaville is tackling the big topics — like whether Rishi Sunak got some cowboy boots as PM and how much they cost. www.ft.com/content/82d2...
Could revealing Rishi Sunak’s cowboy boots ruin Brex-Tex relations?
There’s a Sunak in my boots!
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December 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
It’s a big day for central banks around the world today, so naturally Alphaville is tackling the big topics — like whether Rishi Sunak got some cowboy boots as PM and how much they cost. www.ft.com/content/82d2...
“We are seeing an industrial-scale pardon business.” www.ft.com/content/ef6e...
Inside the ‘industrial-scale’ Trump pardon machine
Washington lobbyists promising connections to the president are in hot demand
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December 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“We are seeing an industrial-scale pardon business.” www.ft.com/content/ef6e...
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Private market marks, say hello to public markets
[FREE TO READ] Ouch
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December 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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In October, Renaissance Technologies suffered a nightmare, with its two public hedge funds abruptly losing about 15%, before soaring back in November. Yet for a lot of other big quantitative investors, the autumn was mostly plain sailing. Why? on.ft.com/4aGVxNG
December 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In October, Renaissance Technologies suffered a nightmare, with its two public hedge funds abruptly losing about 15%, before soaring back in November. Yet for a lot of other big quantitative investors, the autumn was mostly plain sailing. Why? on.ft.com/4aGVxNG
Here's a roundup of FT journalists' favourite non-FT stories of 2025. The winner features snail orgies in the lede. www.ft.com/content/72d0...
FT journalists pick their favourite non-FT articles of the year
Everything you should read that we didn’t write
www.ft.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Here's a roundup of FT journalists' favourite non-FT stories of 2025. The winner features snail orgies in the lede. www.ft.com/content/72d0...
Public market price discovery can be BRUTAL. www.ft.com/content/bc85...
December 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Public market price discovery can be BRUTAL. www.ft.com/content/bc85...
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Pretty amazing what happens with “risk-adjusted” public equity returns when you simply introduce the same lagged reporting that private equity returns come with. www.ft.com/content/ff83...
December 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Pretty amazing what happens with “risk-adjusted” public equity returns when you simply introduce the same lagged reporting that private equity returns come with. www.ft.com/content/ff83...
“The appetite to deregulate has been rapacious; the analysis of the costs and benefits of our policies has been non-existent; and, the repercussions, I would argue, could be dire.” www.ft.com/content/7027...
‘The darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets’
Caroline Crenshaw’s epic exit speech
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December 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“The appetite to deregulate has been rapacious; the analysis of the costs and benefits of our policies has been non-existent; and, the repercussions, I would argue, could be dire.” www.ft.com/content/7027...
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🚨A new angle on private equity’s volatility laundering
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Here’s a new angle on private equity’s volatility laundering
Long and invariable lags FTW
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December 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🚨A new angle on private equity’s volatility laundering
www.ft.com/content/ff83...
www.ft.com/content/ff83...
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