Beijing slams the brakes on Ma’s ‘record’ Ant Group market debut
THE HONG Kong stock exchange has announced that the market debut by Jack Ma’s tech giant Ant Group has been suspended.
The Ant Group listings...
The Year That Wasn’t (but really, really wanted to be)
Nearly all financial and commodity markets stumbled in 2018. Canada-based STUART DUNN, chairman of the Holdun Family Office, looks back at a year some...
Investors give a huge $100m vote of confidence in Airbnb flotation
IN THE biggest US listing of 2020, Airbnb’s first day of public trading has secured a valuation of more than $100bn, with more than...
Exploring the ways to trade surprise economic data
By GILES COGHLAN
MAY’S inflation data surprised the financial markets. Initially predicted to fall to 8.4 percent, the figures came in far hotter than expected...
Rogue trader’s abortive career ends with home detention order
A BRITISH stock market trader who caused a trillion-dollar crash on Wall Street in 2010 has been sentenced by an American court to a...
Evolution of Holdun Family Office over generations
‘As the CEO of a fifth-generation family office,’ writes Brendan Holt-Dunn of the Holdun Family Office, ‘my inspiration is from my father, who has...
‘Ground-breaking’ link to free-up Sino-British stock exchange trade
THE BRITISH Treasury has announced a stock link to allow UK-listed firms to become the first foreign entities to list in mainland China.
Chancellor Philip...
‘Non-standard’ financial information more closely tied to share prices
Want to look into the future of a company? Research by Australia’s UTS (University of Technology Sydney) provides some pointers. LEILAH SCHUBERT reports.
MEASURES that...
ESG integration boost for Blackrock’s DC strategy
US INVESTMENT company BlackRock’s UK Defined Contribution (DC) default strategy, LifePath, is moving to the next phase of ESG integration.
The move will increase LifePath UK’s ESG exposure,...
