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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

Email Brooke Masters @brookeamasters  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Airlines
    The fury of the frequent flyer

    Airline loyalty programmes have tested customer patience and now face government probes

    2 hours ago
    Passengers board a Bombardier CRJ200 jet, operated by United Airlines
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    BlackRock Inc
    BlackRock and Microsoft plan $30bn fund to invest in AI infrastructure

    Nvidia and Abu Dhabi-backed MGX will join effort as energy-intensive tech strains power and data grids

  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    News in-depthFinancial services
    Firms jostle to sell alternative assets to wealthy investors

    Critics warn of risks in selling illiquid and hard-to-value products to less experienced retail buyers

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    US Securities and Exchange Commission
    How SEC mobile phones can signal an imminent stock price drop

    Research tracking mobile data shows how some corporate insiders avoided losses by selling around the time regulatory staff visited

    The Securities and Exchange Seal on its headquarters in Washington
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Wealth management
    BlackRock and Partners Group team up in latest effort to target wealthy

    Firms strike deal to offer model portfolios of alternative assets to rich individuals

    Blackrock’s New York headquarters
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Fund management
    PGIM becomes latest US asset manager to open Abu Dhabi office

    Oil-rich emirate draws new name as it seeks to become financial hub to rival neighbouring Dubai

    General view of the Abu Dhabi skyline
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Fund management
    Apollo and State Street join forces on public-private credit fund

    ETF launch comes as big investment firms seek to sell alternative assets to retail investors

    Signage for Apollo Global Management in Hong Kong, China
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Work & Careers
    Out of a job but not ready for the golf course: how about joining a board?

    More departing CEOs and CFOs are opting for a smorgasbord of director, consulting and mentoring roles

    A middle-aged woman in business attire leans against a glass door.
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    On Wall StreetESG investing
    The way forward for ESG

    Actual owners of shares should have more say than their hired fund managers

    Protests outside BlackRock’s New York City headquarters
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Financial services
    BNY seeks growth in investment services with managed account deal

    Oldest US bank aims to use Archer’s technology to expand in booming $5tn market

    BNY’s headquarters in New York
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Vanguard Group Inc
    Vanguard backed no environmental or social measures in 2024 proxy season

    Support on votes has been dwindling among big money managers after reaching record levels just a few years ago

    A large outdoor sign with the word "Vanguard" in red letters is displayed against a white background. The sign is surrounded by landscaped greenery and red flowers, with a backdrop of trees and a partly cloudy sky.
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Goldman Sachs
    Goldman Sachs wins challenge to Fed over stress tests

    Capital requirements cut after first successful appeal by a US lender against central bank’s annual assessment

    Goldman Sachs logo on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    News in-depthLaw
    Conservative law’s new superstar has a familiar name: Scalia

    Gibson Dunn partner Eugene Scalia has become the go-to lawyer for businesses seeking to check regulators’ authority

    Eugene Scalia, nominee for Labor Secretary, approaches the witness table to testify before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions during his nomination hearing on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    The defanging of US watchdogs Premium content

    Conservative justices have curbed regulators’ ability to impose new rules

    Signage is seen at the headquarters of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Michael Lynch
    Chris Morvillo: trial lawyer who helped Mike Lynch walk free

    Clifford Chance partner was aboard Autonomy founder’s yacht to celebrate courtroom victory

    Neda Morvillo and Chris Morvillo smile while posing for a photo on the rooftop of Tower 270 during a summer birthday cocktail event. They are holding drinks, and the city skyline is visible at sunset in the background
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    BlackRock Inc
    BlackRock’s support for ESG measures falls to new low

    Asset manager supported just 20 of 493 environmental and social proposals put forward by shareholders at annual meetings

    FT montage of BlackRock and Joud Abdel Majeid
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Saudi Arabia is keeping it in the kingdom

    The country’s wealth fund shifts its focus to domestic spending and away from foreign investments.

  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Federal Trade Commission US
    US judge throws out FTC’s ban on non-compete agreements

    Court decision deals blow to regulator’s attempts to curtail measures that prevent employees from taking jobs with rivals

    Lina Khan
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Employment
    The US tipping system is teetering

    Customers are growing more resentful as gratuities soar

    James Ferguson illustration of a waiter trying to balance a tray holding a leaning tip jar
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia
    Saudi wealth fund brings era of easy money to an end

    Once considered a cash cow by dealmakers, PIF has slowed spending on global investments, bankers say

    Mohammed Bin Salman, Riyadh skyline and logos of Softbank, Lucid Motors and BlackRock
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    ‘Little upside and a lot of risk’: Harris-Trump clash tests US CEOs

    Executives hope for a more business-friendly Democrat but remain reluctant to take a public position

    US President Joe Biden enters the stage with Vice-President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris during an event on Medicare drug price negotiations
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Renewable energy
    Carbon ‘insets’ tackle emissions by unleashing the power of capitalism

    The certificates trace reduction instead of offsetting it with unconnected activity like planting trees

    A passenger aircraft is silhouetted by the setting sun
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Consumer trends
    Brand loyalty ain’t what it used to be

    When concerns about high prices prompted shoppers to look around, many liked what they saw

    Supermodel Cindy Crawford drinks a Pepsi in an award-winning ad produced for regular Pepsi in 1991
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    BlackRock Inc
    Top BlackRock executive benefits from unusual ‘points-style’ bonus pay

    Rob Kapito in line for at least $20mn in retirement incentives beyond annual pay and company stock

    Rob Kapito, president of BlackRock, speaks at the Global Financial Leaders Investment Summit in Hong Kong
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    US financial regulation
    US regulators seek to limit asset managers’ sway over big banks

    Investment groups are alarmed by efforts to curb their influence on governance and strategy at American lenders

    Martin Gruenberg
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