The industry Hedge Fund Research reports that 530 hedge funds folded their tents in the first half of 2016, and only 406 launched, putting the industry on pace for the second-largest number of fund liquidations since 1996, and fewest number of new funds launched since 2009. So new managers have to beat worsening odds, and […]
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has assumed worldwide a high value of importance and a fundamental social impact in the daily activities of an organisation. The CSR could be defined, according to the WBCSD, the World Business Council for sustainable development, as the continuing commitment by business to contribute to economic development while improving the quality […]
The crazy ride High frequency trading (HFT) has been around for some time. Martin Wheatley, former CEO of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), dates the first case of HFT back to not later than 1815, when Nathan Rothschild, employing a spy and messenger network he had thoroughly built all over Europe, was the first […]
In late January Peter Navarro, the Head of Trump’s new National Trade Council, said the euro’s low valuation was giving Germany an edge over the US and its EU partners. He described the single currency as an “implicit Deutsche Mark”. We can observe, from the chart provided by Yahoo-Finance that the Euro has fallen nearly […]
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