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SegurCaixa Adeslas: Staying One Step Ahead in World of Health Insurance

SegurCaixa Adeslas is Spain’s leading health insurance company with a 30.1% market share (29.6% in 2018) and a premium income of €2,688 million in 2019. The company’s leadership is based on the range and quality of its services. Policyholders have

Carmakers Running on Fumes

French car manufacturer Renault can be bought for a mere €5.7 billion, a trifling sum in an environment defined by trillions gushing from central banks and state coffers to troubled businesses. Already before the pandemic hit, the company was suffering.

ISID, McGill University: Updating the DFIs’ Operating Models to Achieve the UN 2030 SDG Agenda

The UN General Assembly set the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) five years ago. The estimated annual amount of investment needed to achieve them is short — by $2.5tn to $3tn. The stakeholders that play a key role in directing and

Caught in a Bind: Tax Avoiders Excluded from Corona Relief Funds

Consider a company that has furloughed a quarter of its workforce, and now intends to fire these 1,100 workers, all the while screaming for the UK government to throw it a £150 million lifeline yet unwilling to scrap a £267

A Famine of ‘Biblical Proportion’

The worst humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II. That is how World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley described the impact of the corona pandemic on vulnerable people in countries suffering war and drought. According to

Optimism in the Face of Disaster

Xavier Becerra Don’t apply for benefits, ask for a job. US unemployment centres are now hiring. In a single month, a virus invisible to the naked eye has wiped out a decade’s worth of job creation. In April, more than

A Troubling Edict from Karlsruhe

The European Union is facing the sharpest contraction of economic output since its founding in 1957. This year, the EU’s GDP is set to shrink by 7.4 percent. The steepest declines occur along the northern rim of the Mediterranean in

Private Equity Takes Care of Its Own

The creativity displayed by private equity fund managers when snapping up companies and squeezing out profits has apparently evaporated into thin air. The industry claims to have no clue how to help the companies sitting on its books. Most of

Schalke 04 Fighting for Its Life and Soul

Ausgliederung. What wrecked the deep emotional bond between British football fans and their club is now coming to Germany: The privatisation of the beautiful game. Diehard supporters would probably prefer to describe the trend as a ‘corporate sell-out’ that changed

Spain NAB: Setting Agenda for Spanish Impact Investment Market

At an estimated €90m[1], Spanish impact investment is considered an incipient market by European standards[2], well behind Germany, France, Italy and even Portugal. This market counts 14 impact funds[3], and has been developing slowly over the past 10 years out