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Back to homepageAlexander Forbes Group: Three Strategies for Growth
Alexander Forbes Group Holdings Limited, a specialised financial services group headquartered in South Africa, successfully listed on the main board of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) on Thursday 24 July, 2014. The company focuses on employee benefits solutions for institutional
Read MoreWerner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank (EIB): A Mostly Unseen Hand
In late-December, President Werner Hoyer of the European Investment Bank shared his experiences and insights with CFI.co. He leads an institution more than twice as large as the World Bank, yet remains virtually unknown outside financial circles. Werner Hoyer (66)
Read MoreWaldemar Januszczak: Art for the Millions
The BBC needs a David Attenborough of the arts and Waldemar Januszczak (63) may answer the call. Arguably Britain’s best loved art critic, Mr Januszczak managed to illuminate the Dark Ages without causing viewers to zap elsewhere – a considerable
Read MoreTim Cook: Taking Care of Business
He wants to be remembered as a good and decent man. Not that he’s going anywhere, anytime soon: Apple CEO Tim Cook (56) is determined to take proper care of the legacy left by the company’s visionary founder Steve Jobs
Read MoreKristalina Georgieva, CEO of the World Bank: Empowering Communities
Worldwide, around 500 million people live in “fragile situations,” mostly caused by armed conflict. Climate change threatens to add another hundred million or so people to that tally by 2030 – just thirteen years from now. And of the 800
Read MoreLucy Worsley: Bringing the Past to Life
Books are the carriers of civilisation. Without them, history is silent, literature dumb, and science crippled. That certainty has changed, quite a bit, since US historian and author Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989) celebrated books as vessels of – and portals to
Read MoreCFI.co Meets the Director General of National Savings, Pakistan: Zafar Masud
Zafar Masud, director general of Pakistan’s Central Directorate of National Savings, is a career banker and finance expert who served in top positions at major international banks in both Pakistan and abroad. Mr Masud has established a solid track record
Read MoreCFI.co Meets the CEO of UMG: Kiwi Aliwarga
That is what Kiwi Aliwarga was taking into consideration during the early stages of UMG – founded in 1998. He struggled with limited capital in a country still closed to investments. Kiwi Aliwarga and cofounder Marlar Win took the initiative
Read MoreCFI.co Meets the CEO of GVK Biosciences: Manni Kantipudi
Manni Kantipudi has been leading GVK Biosciences for the last 10 years, one of the largest India-based discovery, development & manufacturing solutions provider to the biopharma industry. With over a quarter century worth of experience in life sciences and the
Read MoreCFI.co Meets the Management Team: Fideicomiso Hipotecario
Fideicomiso Hipotecario – FHipo for short – is a mortgage REIT created for the sole purpose of acquiring, originating, co-participating, servicing, and managing mortgage loan portfolios in Mexico. FHipo was formed on late 2014 by Concentradora Hipotecaria (CH), advisor and
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