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BLKB: Regional Bank that Favours a Future-Orientated Approach
What impact do corporate actions have on individuals, society and the environment? Can we take responsibility for the world we live in, and if so, how? Swiss bank BLKB has some answers. Swiss bank BLKB has been taking responsibility for
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Whither Interest Rates in Advanced Economies: Low for Long?
by Otaviano Canuto We have previously discussed how, between March 2020, when the financial shock caused by COVID-19 occurred, and the end of August, the stock and corporate debt markets in the United States performed extraordinarily, despite gloomy prospects on
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Atif Mian: Theory, Practice, and Macro-economic Reality in a World Longing for Rebound
“Economic disasters are almost always preceded by a large increase in household debt.” The above proclamation comes from a critically acclaimed 2014 book, House of Debt, written by research colleagues Atif Mian, from Princeton University, and Amir Sufi, from the
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The Summer Before Dark 2.0
Paris is under a curfew and Madrid under a state of emergency. In the Benelux, bars and cafés have been closed whilst elsewhere in Europe governments are almost uniformly moving towards a quasi-lockdown. The second wave was perhaps slow to
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Brexit Nears, Hedge Funds Flip Sides, and IMF Urges Spending
The yield on the benchmark 10-year German bund this week dipped to minus 0,63 percent as investors scrambled for safety and stocks took a beating. Tech stocks stumbled as well after the Financial Times revealed that the European Commission is
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Asian Development Bank: What Emerging Markets Can Teach Us About CSR
Fifty years after Milton Friedman’s famous essay arguing that companies should focus solely on shareholder profits, emerging markets businesses are helping lead the fight against Covid-19. Their example adds nuance to Friedman’s argument, reminding us that companies can effectively pursue
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Canada – This Is Our Time to Be Kind
‘Peace, order, and good government’, the leitmotif of the British Empire, seems to trump the American ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ when it comes to public safety. Canada, which kept the motto and lives by it, has thus
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Brexit: Fishing in Troubled Waters
It’s perhaps a case of having your fish and eating it too. The number of analogies that may be rallied to describe the current standoff between the European Union and the United Kingdom over the post-Brexit assignment fish stocks is
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CBRE: Approaching Shadows of Data Opacity and Risk From Flexible Office Market
We live in a world that offers and value tailored convenience. We are accustomed to the smartphone, the internet, transit options and retail offerings delivering more flexibility than ever before. New business models cater for people’s preferences, disrupting retail and
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Reshma Sohoni: An Identity and an Ambition Forged Through a Lifetime of Migration — and Adaptation
Reshma Sohoni migrated to the US from India at the age of 10, moved to France to pursue an MBA at INSEAD, and now calls London home. She says she feels “as Indian as American, and as American as European”.
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