Since time immemorial, alcohol has been a part of the social fabric of human life on earth. The earliest evidence of intentional alcohol production stems back to 7,000BC, from fermented residues found ...

In 2014, the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared sleep disorders a “public health epidemic”; two years later, the World Health Organisation released a study, Sleep ...

Until last September, few people beyond the close-knit world of pension asset managers had heard of ‘liability-driven investment’ (LDI), a trading strategy deployed by many pension funds. When the ...

Building on the momentum of last year’s historic World Cup, Qatar is racing towards an exciting new phase of development. Seeking to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, Qatar’s next chapter will put ...

One way of measuring global policy-makers’ concerns about the unprecedented increase in debt around the world is the number of times the subject is raised at high-level conferences. And it comes up ...

Every year, thousands of the world’s foremost leaders and business elite trek to the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland. In the Alpine town of Davos, geopolitical issues are hashed out, economic ...

Stocks, bonds, index funds, and real estate are the traditional instruments that are part and parcel of any good wealth management strategy. However, investments in luxury items such as art, cars, ...

On April 22, Nathanaël Benjamin was in an ominous mood regarding the state of the private equity (PE) market. In a speech delivered at a Bloomberg event, the Bank of England (BoE) Executive Director ...

I wrote my first Econoclast column for this magazine 15 years ago, in the spring of 2010. The economy at the time was recovering from the deepest recession since the 1930s. As I argued in the column, ...

Economically speaking, it has been the kind of year that any entrepreneur dreads. After the long recovery from the Great Recession, many economic experts and business moguls allowed themselves to ...

With fiscal constraints a dominant feature of the economic landscape across major economies, politicians’ eyes are increasingly alighting on the trillions managed by financial institutions. They are ...

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