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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.

Meet Brooke

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  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    InterviewThe CEO
    Janus Henderson’s Ali Dibadj: ‘You’ve just got to roll with the punches’

    Head of asset manager has faced multiple problems as he tries to rebuild storied brand

    Ali Dibadj in suit and tie standing next to a boardroom table
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    US regulators have vertical integration in their sights

    For years, enforcers focused mainly on horizontal deals, but now that is changing

    General Motors electric vehicles in a factory in Detroit, Michigan
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Graduate jobseekers navigate AI effect on gender equality

    Other tech booms advanced careers of computer science students, who were mainly male — but this one could play out differently

    A close-up side profile of a young woman wearing a graduation cap and gown, looking ahead with a thoughtful expression. She is indoors with a brightly lit background
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Bill Gross
    Bill Gross to put mark on stamp world with sale of rare collection

    The ‘bond king’ is auctioning a complete set of US postal stamps next week

    one cent Z Grill stamp
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    US financial regulation
    New SEC private fund disclosure rules thrown out by US court

    Fifth Circuit’s decision could imperil other wide-ranging reform efforts by US regulator

    US Securities and Exchange Commission buikding
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Fund management
    AI is promoted from back-office duties to investment decisions

    Asset managers are increasingly using generative artificial intelligence to guide financial choices

    Shadows of people in front of a ChatGPT logo
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Private equity now says sharing is caring

    PE firms are turning to profit sharing to help bring in higher returns

  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    Private equity
    Higher rates have changed the game for private equity

    Employee share schemes have a role to play in solving the sector’s challenges

    Blackstone’s headquarters in New York
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Bill Gross says Trump would be worse for bond markets than Biden

    Famed fixed-income investor warns that Republican’s proposed tax cuts would exacerbate rising US deficits

    Montage of Wall Street, Donald Trump and Bill Gross
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Capital Group Cos Inc
    Capital Group and KKR partner to offer private assets to wider audience

    World’s largest active asset manager and buyout firm to make available hybrid public-private funds to wealthy investors

    Trading information for KKR & Co is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    FT WealthWealth management
    Attracting the next generation of inheritors and self-made wealthy

    Winning young clients is critical to future success for private banks and wealth managers

    A mother talks to another woman in glasses who is behind a desk. The mother sits beside her child who seems to be writing down some notes
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast20 min listen
    FTNB Live! News Trivia at FT Weekend Fest

    A special live recording of the FT News Briefing at the FT Weekend Festival in Washi…

  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Vanguard Group Inc
    Vanguard’s new chief plans to lure ‘millions and millions more’ clients

    At BlackRock, Salim Ramji led the industry-beating iShares. Now he has big plans for Vanguard

    Salim Ramji
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Undue Burden — the reality for women in post-Roe America

    Shefali Luthra sympathetically documents the harrowing human consequences of curtailing the right to abortion

    A woman in a mult-coloured tabard escorts another woman into a building. Over the door is a sign that says ‘no judgement, just care’
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Electric vehicles
    How to crack the economics of EV charging

    Breaking the cycle of frustrated drivers and unprofitable charge points is doable

    A motorist charges his electric car in Monterey Park, California
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Vanguard Group Inc
    Vanguard chooses former BlackRock executive Salim Ramji as CEO

    The first outsider to lead the $9tn money manager will take up his role in July

    Photo montage showing Salim Ramji (left) and Tim Buckley, with Vanguard logo in the background
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Bitcoin
    BlackRock closes in on crown of world’s largest bitcoin fund

    Asset manager pushes deeper into digital assets after ETF success

    A montage of the logo for bitcoin, the BlackRock logo, and a high-rise building in the background
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    Financial services
    ‘There’s money everywhere’: Milken attendees look for dealmaking revival

    Packed finance event highlights a power shift to the Middle East and warier views on China

    Michael Milken, chair of the Milken Institute, talks with Elon Musk at the Milken Conference 2024 in Beverly Hills, California
  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
    Impact investing
    Divestment is not as easy as it may seem

    As campus protests rage, passivity over their financial holdings has left universities and other institutions in a bind

    Matt Kenyon illustration of man and a woman standing in front of economics graphs holding placards against unethical investment
  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    Xi’s balancing act with Europe

    The Chinese president’s first trip to region since 2019 comes amid rising tensions

  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    BlackRock Inc
    BlackRock to launch Saudi investment firm after $5bn deal with Riyadh

    Creation of subsidiary is US money manager’s latest move to build ties and win mandates in Middle East

    Yazeed Almubarak, Larry Fink, Yasir Al-Rumayyan and Yazeed Al-Humied posing for a photo
  • Sunday, 28 April, 2024
    California State Teachers' Retirement System
    Calstrs reveals problems calculating carbon footprint of its $331bn portfolio

    Giant retirement scheme delays publication of 2023 climate report after discovering major data issues

    Vapour rising from a petrochemical plant
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    US financial regulation
    Ban on non-compete agreements sends shockwave across Wall Street

    Financial companies scramble to rework contracts and tie down personnel after US Federal Trade Commission rule

    An employee working on a training floor at Citigroup in Paris
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    US financial regulation
    US regulator pauses plans to scrutinise big investors in banks

    FDIC board postpones votes on rival proposals that have alarmed the fund management industry

    Martin Gruenberg
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    US banks
    FDIC ponders tighter checks on big ‘passive’ investors in US banks

    Proposals would demand asset managers show they are not seeking to control lenders in which they have large stakes

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation offices
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