Wall Street’s Second Act
Now is the time to get rich. The volume of money idling on the side lines for lack of yield now stands at an...
Middle East: New Roads Leading to Teheran
There can be little doubt as to the economic importance of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). A tide of contrasting change has...
Holdun Family Office finds serenity and growth amid pandemic chaos —...
Holdun’s uncorrelated Alternative Investment Funds provide shelter from the oscillations of the volatile equity market. MICHAEL O’CONNOR reports.
THE FIRST half of 2020 has been...
Optimism drops, but activity robust in financial services – CBI/PwC
Sentiment in the financial services sector deteriorated in the three months to June, but business conditions – such as volumes, profits and hiring –...
Kimberley Motley: Front Line Lawyer
Grit and glamour rarely go hand in hand, but in Afghanistan – known mostly for being poor, full of poppies, and home to the...
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...
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...
World Bank Group: Development Finance Frontline – Strategic Investment Funds
This is the first of a series of occasional interviews with senior strategic investment fund (SIF) professionals. Tasked with attracting private investors to priority...
Blowing the Whistle on Subprime Banks: Alayne Fleischmann
Whistle blowers revealing corporate wrong-doing can pay a high personal price for acting with integrity. History is littered with examples of organisations determined to...
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...