02/18/2014
As Businessweek Bloomberg writes, "Giving is up since the financial crisis. But while the stock market has made a complete recovery, top-50 philanthropy has clearly not."
02/17/2014
Ben Goldsmith, son of the late billionaire financier Sir James, has lured a cast of blue-chip investors and prominent business families into a €250m green fund to back technology companies.
02/17/2014
Frenchman Sidney Gavignet and team on EFG Bank sailed an impressive, tactical 60-nautical mile sprint from Abu Dhabi to Dubai, to win leg three.
02/14/2014
Negotiating a stock swap, according to documents submitted late on Wednesday to the US markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission.
02/12/2014
John Jahr slowly hitches up his pants, runs his fingers through his swept-back graying hair and gently crouches down, beckoning a curling stone toward him.
02/11/2014
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a Silicon Valley nonprofit in December.
02/11/2014
A five-month rally by Kingdom Holding Co. is giving lift to the investment record of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, the world’s 18th-richest person and self-proclaimed “Warren Buffett of Saudi Arabia.”
02/10/2014
They have only declined twice, falling 7pc in value in 1998, and 3pc in the annus horribilis that was 2008.
02/10/2014
Billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who has made a fortune selling a range of enterprise products, is "disturbed" by the way in which video games cause some children to stay indoors all day.