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Founder & Executive Chairman of FLI Global Michael Flynn: On the ESG Front Line with a Solid Set of Values
Michael Flynn is the founder and Executive Chairman of FLI Global. A business created in the 1980s that is still an action oriented sustainable solutions provider in the front line of environmental protection and has adapted and changed as the
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Poverty Myths, and Professorial ‘Power Couple’ Dispelling Them
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo give new meaning to the term “power couple”. The husband-and-wife team are economics professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), critically acclaimed authors and, most recently, Nobel laureates. The duo has dedicated their lives to
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ARA: REIT Pioneer Wins Recognition for its Transformative Efforts in Sustainability
Established in 2002, ARA Asset Management Limited (ARA) is a leading APAC real assets fund manager which manages real estate investment trusts (REITs), private real estate equity and credit funds, and infrastructure funds with a footprint in 28 countries globally,
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World Bank’s Vice President for Infrastructure: Now is the Time to Rethink Transport and Logistics
Covid-19 has had a huge impact on transport. The response to the pandemic, from social distancing to lockdown policies for affected areas, has disrupted mobility and connectivity everywhere. It has had cumulative impacts on the basic infrastructure and systems that
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António Guterres: SDG Champion
“The global coronavirus pandemic, which has already caused unimaginable devastation and hardship, has brought our way of life to an almost complete halt,” he said. “The outbreak will have profound and lasting economic and social consequences in every corner of
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The Book That Trump Rewrote
The lesson learnt from the 2020 US election is that 2016 was not a fluke. The surprise triumph of Donald Trump four years ago did not represent a momentary lapse of reason, but rather signalled the demise of the traditional
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Oops, He Did It Again?
Oops, he did it again. The choir of commentators that almost unanimously predicted a Biden landslide has been caught singing from the wrong hymn sheet. Though the outcome of yesterday’s US vote is still very much up in the air,
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US Investment Analysts Have Moved On from Trump
Wall Street doesn’t believe in miracles. In anticipation of a ‘blue wave’, US investors pushed the blue-chip S&P 500 up as the nation decides on the next occupant of the White House. With some 100 million votes already cast, pundits
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Evan Harvey, Nasdaq: The Board Perspective on ESG
Sustainability is a moving target. Though we might want uniformity, unanimity, and harmonisation — of standards, disclosures, and data points — there is mostly disorder. The signal of value is strong enough to hold our interest, but all the surrounding
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Toronto Finance International: Toronto Takes Its Place at the Head Table of North American Finance
Toronto is North America’s second-largest financial centre, and is fast becoming a destination of choice for companies looking to establish a presence in North America. The city is well positioned to capitalise on its world-class talent in financial services and
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