Investment professionals like to think they are smart. In truth most are, but just not as much as they think. The industry is filled with over-achievers that default to investment banking because they lack a personal project to direct all their wit and ambition. Anyhow, very smart people are very much capable of saying very… Read More »
…the bartenders at Starbucks make your coffee without you having to order it. …you yell at your girlfriend for being shitty at excel. …you see your Blackberry blinking on saturday morning and get in a cab to the office before you actually read the message. …you write your valentine’s day card in bullet points. …it’s… Read More »
Elon Musk, Tesla, and luxury electric cars have been the most eye-catching keywords of the past few months. The entrepreneurial experience of the legendary Elon Musk has set off a raging tide of electric cars in the lifeless U.S. auto sector, at the same time the U.S. government is trying to reshape the competitiveness of… Read More »
As winter comes, fog and haze in northern China has once again grabbed the public’s attention. Various remedies have been discussed to solve rampant pollution problems caused by coal-burning heat supply and industry production. Unfortunately, a fully effective resolution is very difficult to be provided and implemented in such short period of time. As a… Read More »
As the stock market has currently been going through its greatest runs, most investors are looking forward to all those safe stocks that can easily offer them better returns and that at least match with the broader market. According to reports, over the past few weeks, S&P Depository Receipts has approximately offered 25% returns and… Read More »
Kiva is definitely one of the most uniquely powerful websites on the Internet because it allows citizens of the first world to give small loans to people trying to start a business or make ends meet in the third world. There have been plenty of differently people to come out in support of Kiva over… Read More »
Pension funds are increasingly bolstering their in-house investment teams, and (rather obviously) are looking to tap asset managers for talent. But with remuneration typically smaller, why would anyone make the switch? Recruitment spree for investment professionals range from the small – Lothian Pension Fund is looking for two investment professionals – to the large (Universities… Read More »
For those not familiar, Kiva (www.kiva.org) is a person-to-person micro-lending site that allows individuals, primarily from developed countries, to lend directly to entrepreneurs in the developing world. The borrowers are in places like Cambodia, Bolivia, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Peru, and Tanzania — and primarily borrow to allow their very small businesses to expand and hire. Kiva… Read More »