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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The UK’s pensions minister is pushing retirement funds to invest more in private markets as part of wider plans to improve performance and consolidate £1.3tn of UK pension assets. Torsten Bell told the Financial Times that he was in “very active discussions” with managers of defined contribution schemes, which cover most workers, about increasing their voluntary commitment to private assets. Bell, who was appointed in January, said in an interview that the government was “encouraging investing in a wider range of assets, not…

A date has officially been set for the Philadelphia Eagles’ White House visit with President Donald Trump to celebrate their Super Bowl victory last month.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Tuesday the team will make its visit April 28. Leavitt also took a jab at reports about whether an invitation would be sent after what occurred in 2018.As the 45th president of the United States at the time, Trump rescinded his invitation to the Eagles after their Super Bowl victory over the Patriots after some players said they wouldn’t attend. Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, left, and Philadelphia Eagles head…

QUETTA, Pakistan: Separatist militants blew up a railway track and opened fire on a passenger train in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday (Mar 11), taking dozens of hostages and battling security forces conducting a rescue operation, police and the insurgents said. Police have not specified how many passengers were taken hostage in the remote mountainous area but the insurgents said they were holding 214 people, and have threatened to start executing them. “The affected train is still on the spot and the armed men are holding passengers,” senior district police officer Rana Dilawar said. “Security forces launched a massive operation,” he…

Paris-Saint Germain beat Liverpool on penalties at Anfield after levelling their Champions League tie in normal time.Paris Saint-Germain beat Premier League leaders Liverpool on penalties at Anfield to book their place in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. PSG beat Liverpool 1-0 on the night on Tuesday to level the aggregate score at 1-1. Ousmane Dembele scored 12 minutes into the second-leg match after a blunder by the Liverpool defence. Mohamad Salah scored Liverpool’s first penalty but Darwin Nunes and Curtis Jones saw their spot kicks saved by Gianluigi Donnarumma. Desire Doue, who won gold at the Olympic Games with…

President Donald Trump announced his nomination of Michael George DeSombre to serve as the next U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific.Trump made the announcement on Tuesday, posting on Truth Social that DeSombre served during the president’s first term as the ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand.DeSombre is a partner at Sullivan Cromwell, where he leads mergers and acquisitions in Asia.He also graduated from Harvard Law School. Additionally, DeSombre attended Stanford University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in quantitative economics, and master’s degree in East Asian Studies.NORTH KOREA FIRES MISSILES AS US, SOUTH KOREA BEGIN…

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Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Vancouver beer company is planning for a price increase on their cans as tariffs on steel and aluminum go into effect. “At the end of the month, we’re currently planning that the price of our cans will go up about 10 per cent just because of the increase in the price of aluminum, and then another 25 or 50 per cent tariff on top of that, which we don’t know exactly what that will be right now,” Adam Henderson with Superflux Beer Company told Global News.“So that’s pretty substantial.”Superflux uses aluminum…

A key figure in the PGA Tour’s attempts to unify golf, former world No.1 Adam Scott insists he has no future in politics and would rather be improving his game.

Ron Baron, founder of Baron Capital.Anjali Sundaram | CNBCBillionaire investor Ron Baron is standing by Elon Musk’s Tesla even in the face of its dramatic sell-off. The stock plunged 15% on Monday, its biggest one-day loss since September 2020.”I can’t believe how cheap they are, things that we look at,” Baron said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I was thinking we would make four times over the next 10 years. I think we’re going to make more than that now from these prices.”The Baron Capital chair and CEO first invested $400 million in Tesla between 2014 and 2016, and that…

Russian forces have begun an assault on the town of Sudzha, the main population center in the Kursk region that was captured by Ukraine last year, a top Russian commander said on Tuesday. The advance puts Moscow on the verge of ending the first invasion of Russian territory since World War II.“We have surrounded Sudzha from almost all sides,” Lt. Gen. Apti Alaudinov, a top Russian commander in Kursk, told Russian state television on Tuesday.Russia’s recent rapid moves around Sudzha have erased a large share of the territorial gains made by Ukrainian forces during their surprise attack into western Russia…