Alexander Karp: Somewhat Deviant
Ray Kroc, the man responsible for putting a McDonalds restaurant on almost every street corner in the world, once said that the two most...
OMRAN – driving Oman’s renaissance in tourism
“ACCESSIBILITY, safety, good weather, and friendly people. We have everything here,” says OMRAN CEO Peter Walichnowski, rolling out Oman's welcome mat for tourists and...
Patience and discipline will deliver family prosperity
The Holt-Dunn family has been managing investments and assets for generations
SIR HERBERT HOLT created a business empire that spanned three continents during one of...
The business of war
THE American writer and humourist, PJ O’Rourke, spent the autumn of 1984 in Lebanon as the country’s civil war began to heat up. The...
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,...
Roger Federer: Excellence Personified
Out with friends celebrating his 18th birthday in December 2004, young Spanish tennis fan Juan Aparicio had the grievous misfortune to be involved in...
Covid-19 loan schemes ‘a debt, not a grant’ cautions UK Finance
UK BUSINESSES are pessimistic about their growth potential once the COVID-19 crisis passes.
A survey of 1,200 firms has found that the pandemic has negatively...
Asia Pacific: China – Beijing Leaves Washington in the Dust with...
Washington missed the boat on the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Both the United States and Japan declined to join the new multilateral...
Three PMs, four chancellors, and a partridge in a pear tree…?
ONLY a quarter of UK retail investors have faith in Tory economic policy, with the majority concerned for the future.
Research commissioned by online forex...
Juan Valdez: Marketing Coffee and a Country for Nearly 60 Years
Juan Valdez, a moustachioed campesino has been featured in advertisements for Colombian coffee since 1958. He is a familiar face throughout the Americas and...
