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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jim Waterson Media editor

FT’s How To Spend It magazine rebrands as big spenders go out of style

Yellow Ferrari on a Mayfair street, central London.
The FT says the How To Spend It name no longer reflects the ‘changing times and priorities’ in a world of financial inequality. Photograph: ddimcars/Alamy

The Financial Times magazine How To Spend It has long provided inspiration to bankers wanting to blow their bonuses on designer goods – but the publication has been rebranded because spending big is no longer seen as a positive quality.

The luxury magazine, packaged with the FT’s Weekend edition, is stuffed with expensive adverts for high-end watches, safaris, and yachts aimed at its jet-set wealthy readership – making it a money-spinner for the newspaper.

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