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Byline: Simon Targett;John Butman Facebook stock collapsed Thursday, with share prices plummeting nearly 19 percent. The falling stock prices wiped out $119 billion of the company's market value, the largest [...]

There are over 4,000 state secondary schools in the United Kingdom, and the 164 grammar schools tend to perform better than comprehensive schools. Welsh comprehensive schools tend to perform well, accounting for five places of the ten best comprehensive schools. Scottish schools tend to have their own examinations which cannot easily be compared with the system used in England and Wales, so most Scottish schools are not included in the survey. Some schools have refused to take part since they emphasise benefits other than exam success rate, and stress that the ability level of the pupil intake is also important.

United Kingdom independent schools have been assessed according to the examination performance of students, and 19 schools of the best 30 are girls' schools. The assessment has been made taking into account all grades awarded in the Advanced-Level examination, rather than simply the top two grades. Girls' schools have benefited from an investment in the older pupils which has led to a drop in numbers moving to boys' schools once they are older, according to one headmistress.

High-speed international travel is an essential part of globalisation: it makes the modern world work. Life without the car, the aeroplane, the hotel, the restaurant is hard to imagine. Yet [...]

London may not seem like an offshore centre. But that is exactly what it is - for wealthy individuals all around the world. In this edition of FT Wealth Quarterly, [...]

A challenge to the largest divorce settlement in English legal history got under way yesterday when John Charman, the insurance millionaire, returned to court in an effort to overturn a [...]

Welcome to the first in a series of special reports on the business of doing business in the British Isles. The FT, as a global newspaper, reports on and records [...]

Collecting is, at first, a solitary pursuit, and even national collections can owe their existence to the inspiration of a single enthusiast. Britain's National Gallery, for example, traces its existence [...]

Antique dealers up and down the UK have had a hard time in recent years with a falling away of tourists from across the Atlantic and the high value of [...]

Coming to a screen near you - this selling point may bean easy thing to accomplishwith film, but when it comes to museum exhibitions, it's a different story. The truth [...]

Thank God there's an outlet for the good British artists working now.' That was the reaction of Gill Hedley, director of the Contemporary Art Society, when she heard of the [...]

I have been digging out some early copies of FTfm, as preparation for this, my final column as editor. It is only two and a half years since FTfm was [...]

Banco Santander, Spain's largest bank, may have fallen head over heels for Abbey, the UK building society-turned-bank, but Jorge Moran, head of the bank's fund management business, gives the impression [...]

Keith Percy, chief executive of Societe General's London- based fund management business, is aiming to double the firm's assets under management over the next five years. In an interview with [...]

'If you do several things, you never go out looking for jobs,' says Sir Tim Chessells, a former director of Dixons, the high street electrical goods chain. 'You answer the [...]

It has been an Olympian year for Bob Greifeld, the marathon-running chief executive of Nasdaq, the US electronic stock market. Last week's decision by Google, the world's most used internet [...]

Deutsche Asset Management has poached Peter Harrison, London-based chief investment officer at JP Morgan Fleming. He replaces Karl Sternberg, who will leave the company at the end of next month. [...]

The head of the UK's biggest corporate pension scheme is today urging the government to rethink its refusal to put taxpayers' money into a US-style retirement savings rescue fund. Sir [...]

Watson Wyatt, the consultancy that advises over half of FTSE 100 companies' pension schemes, is preparing to invite independent scrutiny of the strategic investment advice it gives to trustees. It [...]

LONDON -- Nasdaq, the US electronic stock market, is targeting a 50 per cent increase in the number of its non-US listed companies in an attempt to build a stronger [...]

LONDON -- Nasdaq, the US electronic stock market, is targeting a 50 per cent increase in the number of its non-US listed companies. The strategy could help Nasdaq claw back [...]

Ministers are facing growing pressure to put taxpayer's money into a new retirement rescue fund designed to safeguard workers' pensions if their company goes bust. The Pension Protection Fund, due [...]

It is not easy to put your finger on Barclays Global Investors. What kind of place is it? What makes it tick? It is unquestionably big - one of the [...]

The trading floor of Barclays Global Investors' nondescript offices on Fremont Street in San Francisco's financial district rumbles disconcertingly every so often. Visitors look around nervously. BGI staff barely notice [...]

If you are a pension fund trustee, congratulations. You may not realise it, but trustees are fast becoming some of the most powerful people in the business world. Trustees look [...]

'They're the boring quant guys, aren't they?' says one fund manager from a traditional stock-picking investment house. It is certainly true that Barclays Global Investors uses a quantitative - or [...]

LONDON -- Barclays Global Investors, the fund management house, is considering making its first big acquisition as part of radical plans to speed up the growth of its fixed income [...]

'Trust in me. Just in me.' These words were spoken by Kaa, the slithery snakein the Walt Disney adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, who was trying to hypnotise Mowgli, [...]

Profit and loss, earnings stream, ebit margins. These words tumble from the mouth of Keith Skeoch, the new chief executive of Edinburgh-based Standard Life Investments, as he outlines his strategy [...]

Some of the world's biggest fund management companies are facing fierce resistance to change from middle-ranking executives as they try to push through radical reforms in a bid to appease [...]

Some of the world's most powerful investment companies are flouting their own corporate governance rules and paying their star fund managers about Dollars 1bn in unmeritocratic guaranteed bonuses and 'golden [...]

The global custody business - or, as the specialists are preferring to call it, the international asset servicing business - is coming of age. That is the view of the [...]

Right now the UK is the 'happening place' for the asset servicing business. All the big US banks are positioning themselves for a raft of new business, following the completion [...]

As with most other fund managers, Robert Jenkins, head of F&C Management, a subsidiary of Eureko, a pan-European financial services group, thought long and hard about outsourcing the administration of [...]

Some of Europe's top fund managers have opted not to invest in some of Britain's best-known British companies, according to a league table of investors' favourite stocks. The league table, [...]

Pick out the best-rated fund managers and peer into their portfolios tofind out which companies they are holding: that is as good a way as any to establish the best [...]

Some of the best-known companies in the UK are being shunned by leading investors, according to a league table of fund managers' favourite companies, published today. AstraZeneca, the pharmaceuticals giant, [...]