Global Finance

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues—also known as sustainability issues—are posing a shared risk to the insurance industry, business, government, and society at large,...

Overall, activity in the oil and gas industry across the African continent has slowed in the wake of the declining prices in late 2014....

In the long list of those described as “the best leader we never had,” David Owen’s name is found near the top. Uniquely among...

“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here,” says Captain Louis Renault of the Casablanca police upon entering Rick’s Bar. A...

The United States government is outsourcing its business in space at an astronomical rate. Contracts worth billions of dollars are being awarded to private...

The fiscal contribution of MNEs (multinational enterprises) has been at the centre of attention for some time. Numerous instances of well-known firms paying little...

In much the same way Marxists internationalists held on to the belief that the workers’ revolution would sweep the world before it, today’s neoconservatives...

Political disruptors have, once again, become fashionable – and popular. They always do when societies grow tired of business as usual and politicians that...

In their new book The Incredible Shrinking Alpha, Larry E Swedroe and Andrew L Berkin describe an investment environment populated by increasingly sophisticated analysts...

Over the next few weeks, the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are likely to put in place notably different policies. The...