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Rescue by Helicopter Reserves
The world woke up on Monday 23 with higher international reserves for all countries. A new allocation of US$650 billion (SDR450 billion) in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to its member countries has entered into
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Hemisfério Sul Investimentos – Private Equity Trailblazer: Ahead of the Curve and Still Gunning for Gold
Alternative asset fund manager Hemisfério Sul Investimentos began operations in São Paulo some 15 years ago, when real estate private equity began to mature as an institutional asset class in Brazil. HSI was one of the first asset managers to
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Hemisfério Sul Investimentos (HSI) No Compromise: Nothing but the Best Will Do for Pioneers of Brazil’s Real Estate Sector
Hemisfério Sul Investimentos (HSI) nails its colours to the mast on its website with the motto: “Good enough is not enough.” That attitude extends all the way to the top, and its leading management figures accept nothing but 100 percent
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Dr Chitwan Malhotra: Healthcare Hands Meet Across the Waters in Push for Rebuild
The global pandemic has exposed the flaws and inequalities of the world’s healthcare systems. But doctor Chitwan Malhotra, the executive director of the UNSDG Health Partnership in Geneva, believes it also represents an opportunity to build back better. “I believe
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Inter Seguros: We Need to Talk about Insurance, Brazil
A silent revolution is helping thousands of Brazilian families to plan and take care of the things that matter most Revolutionising markets and simplifying the lives of its customers are the foundations of the culture of Banco Inter, the first
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Inter Seguros CEO: Paulo Padilha
Chief executive Paulo Padilha is proud of the people driving the company forward, and their sense of purpose. “We are a team highly committed to the experience of our customers,” he says, “and we are aware of our mission to
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Marcos Preto, CEO of Agrocortex: Unlocking Value of Forestry Projects
REDD projects fight logging and environmental destruction of the Earth’s ‘green lungs’ – the amazing and irreplaceable rainforests of the Amazon. Voluntary carbon credits are in high demand, increasingly so over the past year, and there are growing opportunities for
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Free Trade in Retreat in Europe due to Environmental and Labour Standards
The EU free trade baton, carried by the UK until Brexit, has been relayed to the Stockholm Six of like-minded liberal countries pushing back against French and Italian pressure for Europe to get tougher on trade defence, and relax on
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Electronic Trading Came to the Fore in 2020, and Avelacom is Well-placed to Ease the Transition to Automation Technologies
The hold of electronic trading substantially tightened in world’s capital markets in 2020 as participants shifted en masse from voice-trading in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Avelacom, an authorised service provider of connectivity and infrastructure solutions for the world’s exchanges,
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The Sudden Fall and Coming Resuscitation of Reaganomics
Trickle-down economics was counted amongst the first fatalities of the corona pandemic. The belief that government interference with the functioning of the free market is evil by design hastily gave way in early March as the ‘Wuhan virus’ revealed its
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