Howard Marais

Stuff is cluttering my brain. There’s the work stuff (people to call, email, meet, things to read and write, expenses) — then there’s the life stuff. Presents and school uniform to…
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Once upon a time the world was flat, as Thomas Friedman put it, and CEOs didn’t need to check their phones at dinner. Now, it’s one crisis rolling in after another: all bets…
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British expats in EU countries are scrambling to find affordable options for remortgaging their UK homes amid high interest rates, as big lenders have retreated from the…
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Your 20s can be a tumultuous time of discovery, and it can help to hear from people on the other side. Take it from me. I’m in my 30s. I don’t have regrets about the detours and…
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Imagine a person whose desire for the easy life is stronger than their sense of ethics. And imagine that this person gets hold of a cutting-edge computer app that can produce fast…
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Losing one finance director is an isolated misfortune. But when a quarter of FTSE 100 finance directors box up their desk contents in the space of a few months, it is clear…
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Bill Gates’s father once asked his son and Warren Buffett to write down the word that explained their success. As Buffett later told the basketball player LeBron James, both men…
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This is part of a series, ‘Economists Exchange’, featuring conversations between top FT commentators and leading economistsIt isn’t easy to grow old gracefully — as many ageing…
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Joanna Jensen, 52, created family skincare brand Childs Farm in 2011, while trying to soothe her daughters’ skin problems. Using credit cards and starting out from her Hampshire…
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