Consider the hedge fund manager’s dilemma. If all she has is $200 million to $300 million in assets under management, she’d barely be able to afford that swanky office and the half-dozen analysts she’d need to run the operation. So she works hard to establish a track record and begins to manage, say, $2 billion to $3 billion. At that ...

Federal Reserve officials, confronting developments and an outlook they seem to have not anticipated, face tricky decisions as they finalised their policy deliberations on Wednesday. These centre on updating their individual projections and converging on whether — and if yes, how — to start a necessary policy pivot that unfortunately conflicts with the framework the central bank adopted recently to ...

Bloomberg Seven of the European Union’s leading energy producers called on policymakers to agree to an ambitious and fast reform of the world’s largest carbon market in a bid to help investors in the transition to climate neutrality. Companies including Electricite de France SA, Statkraft AS and Fortum Oyj — which have big nuclear and hydropower fleets — want a ...