The global phenomenon of Wikipedia has spread to funds management with a California-based investment group harnessing the talents of traders and investors to boost its fund performance.
Marketocracy, as the group is known, has removed the notion of ‘key-man risk’ often associated with funds management groups – whereby …
Colonial First State’s exclusive tie up last week with former US Vice President Al Gore and his Generation Investment Management group comes at a good time for the CBA-owned asset manager.
The weight of public support towards more sustainable ways of living to reduce the impact of humans …
The Australian Federal Treasurer has been given scant credit by the nation’s public despite presiding for more than a decade over what has become an unprecedented period of economic expansion.
As the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) yesterday reinforced the strong economic fundamentals underpinning the domestic economy only …
Large banks and financial institutions in many countries often have brands closely aligned to a nation’s history, culture and economic wellbeing.
In some ways this helps to partly explain the furore created when institutions look to move often non-core business operations offshore – however one angle rarely considered …
As Osama Bin Laden continues to goad the West over its indulgent ways another former high profile counter point to capitalism – former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev – has taken to advertising luxury goods.
Gorbachev, who has many critics inside Russia for his perceived role in the …
Fear is a powerful force and was evident last week in the UK when thousands of customers made a ‘£1 billion run’ on the embattled Northern Rock bank fearing it could collapse after the Bank of England was forced to step in.
In Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the local police were …
