05/17/2021

Review of the week: One-track mind

Inflation is all investors can think about right now, causing stock markets to wobble a bit. More focus should be on the steady march to recovery. There’s fun to be had.

05/16/2021

Earn 127% return from your fine wine cellar

This put wine second in the annual index behind Hermès handbags (17 per cent), and ahead of cars (6 per cent), watches (5 per cent) and art (down 11 per cent), which was hit by a collapse in global auctions during the pandemic.

05/14/2021

Take Shelter 3.0 by Tim Price

If Take Shelter caught the spirit of the times in the years immediately after the Global Financial Crisis, on a third viewing (at least to this correspondent) it absolutely nails the current global dystopia, and how life feels after western governments ha

05/14/2021

Powering Conversational Business

Customers, shoppers, prospects, and leads want to communicate with businesses with the same ease and convenience that they experience when they talk to friends and family.

05/12/2021

Descending safely: Life after Libor - speech by Andrew Bailey

With banks moving to greater use of retail deposits and secured funding, rather than short-term wholesale interbank markets, Libor increased its reliance on transactions grounded in the commercial paper (CP) and certificates of deposit (CD) markets.

05/12/2021

Doing business in the Netherlands

The country’s very stable political economy, highly educated workforce, extensive double tax treaties and pragmatic culture add to the country’s allure, especially for large and multinational companies.

05/11/2021

A fortress to protect wealth in all times

A leading independent wealth and asset manager founded in Switzerland in 1805, Pictet has helped clients including Asian families pass on their legacies through generations