Leighton Smith and Andrew Evans: Serendipitous Rise Puts Dynamic Duo at the Top

Serendipity brought Leighton Smith and Andrew Evans together at a time when they couldn’t have predicted their career trajectory —…

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VM Finance Poised to Lead Property Financing for SMEs

VM Finance entered the non-bank specialist funding industry in 2018, armed with a wealth of experience in credit writing, backed…

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From Bear to Bull: Warren Buffett Casts a Vote of Confidence in US Stock Market

A perennial favourite of investors, the snowclone ‘What Would Warren Do?’, has an answer. Warren buys oil and other blue…

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Unfriending Europe: President Putin Turns the Screw

This is perhaps not the time to tell the Germans ‘told you so’ as the nation deals with the fallout…

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Illusory Visions of Strategic Autonomy: Emmanuel Macron Wins France, Loses Europe

This Sunday, most French voters held their nose as they granted President Emmanuel Macron a second term in office. Faced…

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A Bipolar World? Searching in Vain for a Dollar Alternative

The seizure of Russia’s dollar reserves, part of the first wave of sanctions decreed in response to Moscow’s ‘special military…

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A Perfect Storm Perfected: EU Battles String of Calamities

It’s about the only thing missing from a world in turmoil: France going haywire and off the rails. The solid…

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Otaviano Canuto: Some Economies May Soon Face a Hard Landing

Weaker performance of emerging markets is expected in the immediate future. This year began with simultaneous signs of a slowdown…

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Charlotte McCurdy Getting Creative about Climate Change: Time to Plant the Seed

Charlotte McCurdy, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate and professor, wants creatives to join the fight against climate change.…

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Active Re COO Luis Antonio Ibáñez: Sound Underwriting, Respect, and an Eye for Opportunity…

‘Our policy? No policy. We have strategy instead,’ quips COO of reinsurance giant Active Re Active Re, founded in 2007…

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