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Harriet Agnew

Asset Management Editor

Harriet is asset management editor at the FT. She also writes FT Asset Management, a weekly newsletter on the movers and shakers behind a multitrillion-dollar global industry. Before her current role Harriet was a news editor on the companies desk, with responsibility for financial services coverage. She also spent three years as Paris correspondent for the Financial Times, covering the luxury, consumer, retail, telecoms, media and tech industries. 

Harriet joined the Financial Times in 2014 as City correspondent, and launched its City Insider column. Before that she covered hedge funds at Financial News and at Euromoney Institutional Investor.

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