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Grant Thornton: Islamic Finance – What’s In It For Me?
Grant Thornton United Arab Emirates (UAE) Audit Partner, Khurram Bhatti talks about the key aspects related to Islamic Finance. There is much to both venerate and praise about Islamic Finance. Its stated philosophy and principles are probably as close to
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A Grateful World Mourns Nelson Mandela
1918 – 2013 On the evening of Thursday December 5th a clearly shaken President Jacob Zuma announced to South Africa and the world that Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was dead. Nelson Mandela’s death was not abrupt and the news of his
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Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel: Saudi Princess at Forefront of Women´s Lib – “We Want Change”
It is quite difficult to introduce Ameerah Al-Taweel without mentioning the fact that she is the wife of Saudi Prince Walid Ibn Talal – founder of Kingdom Holding, billionaire some twenty times over, and one of the most successful and
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DEG: Germany Eyes Future Markets Beyond the BRICS
In the light of weak economic activity, growth forecasts for the major emerging nations in 2013 and 2014 are being revised downwards. The so-called BRICS states (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) – which constitute the key foreign markets
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Tobias Preis: Beating the Stock Market with Google’s Big Data
Google your way to riches: It can be done and Tobias Preis has proved it. Search query data on publically traded corporations, as available from Google Trends, bear a close correlation to transaction volumes of the corresponding stock. The number
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Perry Chen: Unleashing the Power of Collective Funding, Getting Bright Ideas to Fruition
In the spring of 1885, publisher Joseph Pulitzer launched a fundraising campaign in his newspaper New York World to raise the last $100,000 needed to build a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. The statue – a gift from the
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Dame Zaha Mohammed Hadid: Never an Understatement – Design Rooted in Nature
The work of Dame Zaha Mohammed Hadid, one of today’s most accomplished and celebrated architects, has always been ambitious. To her many admirers she is the Queen of the Curve – a big-picture visual thinker with an impressive record of
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Deficits Matter, but Not the Way You Might Think
By Bob Veres. This originally appeared on Advisor Perspectives. Congress is coming off of a bruising debate over the deficit ceiling – a preview of what we will experience again in a few months. The economy is growing slowly – some
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Cyprus on the Mend?
By Delia Velculescu, IMF Mission Chief for Cyprus Speech given at the Economist Conference, Nicosia, November 25, 2013 Much has already been accomplished in the relatively short time since the approval of the stability program for Cyprus. Let me give three
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World Bank Response to Philippines Typhoon Disaster
“We have been encouraged by the resilience of the Filipino people and the determination shown by President Aquino and his team as they work to recover from a disaster of unprecedented scale,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim.
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