Stuart Kirk takes role as FT Weekend columnist

Starts 19 November

Stuart Kirk, the former global head of responsible investing at HSBC who left in ignominy over his infamous Miami speech, has been appointed as an investment columnist at the Financial Times.

Returning to the paper after almost a decade, Kirk will take on weekly FT Weekend column beginning 19 November, which will be aimed at personal investors at savers. In his first stint at the FT, Kirk served at Lex editor, departing the paper in 2013, seven years after he joined. Stuart Kirk resigns and claims HSBC made his position 'unsustainable' He then took on a role as global head of multi-asset and thematic research at Deutsche Bank, before shifting to its buy-side arm DWS in 2017, where he served as global head of research institute. He took on his HSBC role in 2020. FT ed...