Hedge Funds: Past, Present, and Future
By H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck
“Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our...
Better Capitalised Banks Lend More and Lend Better
By Stephen G. Cecchetti & Kermit L. Schoenholtz
Are higher capital requirements really a drag on economic growth? Many people seem to think so. We...
Currency Depreciation Can Save an Economy in Crisis
By Ivan Illán
Amongst political and business leadership, there’s a popular bias that domestic currency depreciation and/or devaluation is negative for a nation’s economy. Instead,...
Tax Avoidance: Between Temptation and Trouble
By Matthias Kasper and Erich Kirchler
Fostering tax compliance is a key challenge for global politics. Public revenues need to be protected, and confidence needs...
India – Crime of the Century – Financial Genocide
By Peter Koenig
On 8 November, Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister, brutally declared all 500 (US$ 7) and 1,000 rupee-notes invalid. The final goal...
How the Rand Exchange Rate Volatility Affects the South African Economy?
By Matthew Kofi Ocran
While the South African rand has historically been characterised with high volatilities, the recent levels of gyrations of the currency, particularly...
China’s International Renminbi Is Coming – Is Wall Street Ready?
By Dan Steinbock
On October 1, the Chinese renminbi officially becomes the fifth international reserve currency. Until recently, Washington played geopolitics...
Usury in the 21st Century
By Richard Westra
Neoliberal deregulation commencing in the closing decades of the 20th century put into play a global financial system which operates as a...
Active Investing? That’s So Twentieth Century
By Edward Morris
The movement to passive investing has been unrelenting. Investors may harbour doubts that the markets are perfectly efficient, but they increasingly act...
Why Have Politicians Abandoned Economic and Financial Policies to Non-Elected Bankers?
By Rodrigue Tremblay
Since 1999, non-elected bankers have been in charge of economic policy in the US and other countries, with questionable results. Are we...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI
By Terence Tse
CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value.
A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...
