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Robin Wigglesworth

Global Finance Correspondent

Robin Wigglesworth is the FT’s global finance correspondent, based in Oslo, Norway. He focuses on the biggest trends reshaping markets, investing and finance more broadly across the world, with a particular focus on technological disruption and quantitative investing, and writing longer-form features, analyses, profiles and columns.

He was previously the FT's US markets editor, spearheading its coverage of financial markets and asset management across the Americas, deputy head of FastFT, capital markets correspondent, and Gulf correspondent.

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  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    Financial services
    Distressed debt investors still await rich pickings from pandemic

    The industry expects bankruptcies to throw up opportunities, but not on the scale of the financial crisis

  • Monday, 26 October, 2020
    AnalysisEquity valuation
    Covid condemns value investing to worst run in two centuries

    Sought-after but expensive tech stocks have extended their lead during the pandemic

  • Monday, 19 October, 2020
    Inside BusinessCapital markets
    The debt bubble legacy of economists Modigliani and Miller

    Research laid the intellectual groundwork for a dramatic erosion of corporate creditworthiness 

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    AnalysisEquity valuation
    ‘Value drought’ claims latest victim as growth stocks power on

    Investing in unloved and overlooked shares suffers worst performance in a century

  • Friday, 2 October, 2020
    US equities
    Trump diagnosis adds to market nerves over US election

    Investors were braced for post-vote turbulence but diagnosis raises risks in run-up to polling day

  • Thursday, 1 October, 2020
    Corporate bonds
    SVP bets on pandemic debt stress with $1.6bn fund launch

    ‘Distressed’ funds are back in vogue as Covid-19 fallout continues

  • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
    Markets InsightHedge funds
    ‘Multi-strategy’ hedge funds show way forward for industry

    Investors nowadays crave predictability and consistent results more than fickle brilliance and the occasional home run

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
    Political risk and investment
    Fears of a disputed US election fuel market volatility bets

    Vix index futures rise further after Trump indicates he might not concede if he loses November vote

  • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
    AnalysisHedge funds
    Trend-following hedge funds struggle in topsy turvy year

    Strategy that proved its worth in 2008 has lost some of it in 2020

  • Promoted Content
  • Monday, 21 September, 2020
    Inside BusinessUS Treasury bonds
    US Treasury market’s brush with disaster must never be repeated

    Fed tamed the chaos in March but must take further action to buttress future solidity

  • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    AnalysisThe Big Read
    How Covid-19 sparked a dividend drought for investors

    Government and central bank support has saved businesses, making it hard for them to hand money to shareholders

  • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    Markets volatility
    Fad for options fuels SoftBank’s ‘whale’ trade

    Fad for short-term options complemented the Japanese group’s outsized bets

  • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    ETF HubThe latest news on ETFs
    Wall Street bids a not-so-fond farewell to exchange traded notes

    The unloved cousins of the ETF have been criticised for being riskier than they appear

  • Monday, 7 September, 2020
    ExplainerCharts that Matter
    Apple’s value vaults over entire US index of small-cap stocks

    Market cap of iPhone maker surpassed Russell 2000 in latest sign of a top-heavy market

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    AnalysisThe Big Read
    Donald Trump vs Joe Biden: markets rattled by risk of a messy election result

    Investors have made gains in the past four years, but many of them are worrying about the threat to democratic institutions

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    US equities
    SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ stoking tech rally

    Japanese conglomerate has been snapping up options in huge amounts over past month

  • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
    Markets Briefing
    US shares slide 3.5% as tech stocks go into sharp reverse

    Apple loses $150bn of market value in a day

  • Wednesday, 2 September, 2020
    Markets volatility
    Investors brace for chop as race for White House heats up

    Derivatives linked to volatility index reflect nerves over fraught presidential election

  • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
    Vanguard Group Inc
    Vanguard uproots staff from Hong Kong to focus on Shanghai

    World’s second-largest asset manager says its new regional hub will be mainland China

  • Monday, 24 August, 2020
    Inside BusinessCoronavirus economic impact
    Time for action on America’s Darwinian debt struggle

    A credit crisis among small businesses risks creating an even more lopsided US economy

  • Monday, 24 August, 2020
    Markets InsightEquity valuation
    Common sense foundations behind rapid market recovery

    Speed of rally in stocks is breathtaking but causes are strikingly simple

  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    Hedge funds
    Macro hedge funds enjoy unlikely renaissance

    Market volatility caused by the pandemic has been a boon for investors making big economic bets

  • Monday, 17 August, 2020
    AnalysisUS equities
    Small stocks no longer deliver big gains for US investors

    Structural shifts within markets have undermined a popular strategy, say analysts

  • Monday, 10 August, 2020
    ExplainerCharts that Matter
    US faces inflation threat as money supply rockets

    If the Fed loses control of price rises, the stock market could be shaken up, Wall St bank says

  • Friday, 7 August, 2020
    AnalysisGold
    How the 2020 gold rush smashed through records

    Inflation worries return to fuel a surge in price of the precious metal

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