Category Archives: Investment Topics
An Evolving Asset Class: The Future of Cryptocurrencies
Crypto assets have endured long enough to raise some serious questions. Can regulators resolve their status as securities, commodities, property, or currency? Read More
INSEAD Professor: US to Lose Its Place as Top Spot for Venture Capital Next Year
Claudia Zeisberger expects early and late stage venture capital investments in the US will reach US$94 billion in 2019, behind an expected US$102 billion in China. Read More
4 Ways Millennials Can Avoid Following Their Passion
Lauren Friese, director of Workforce Innovation at RBC, makes a strong point about the ways that “passion” can set millennials up for failure. Read More
Food for Thought: An Insight into Japan’s Outlook
Japan’s nominal GDP has increased, its unemployment rate has fallen, and return on equity measures are strong — why are investors not rushing into the country? Read More
The Future of Global Investing
Asset owners play an important role shaping the future of asset management, and three of them shared their perspectives at the 71st CFA Institute Annual Conference in Hong Kong. Read More
Daniel Kahneman on Expertise, Bias, and the Investment Industry
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman has four simple strategies for better decision making that can be applied to both finance and life. Read More
9 Ways to Survive Disruption in the Workplace
Lauren Friese, director of Workforce Innovation at RBC, says that millennials will face disruption in their careers, but they can cope with it proactively instead of experientially. Read More
Adapting to a New Reality: Investment Firms of the Future
Shifting cultural norms and quantum leaps in technology are accelerating change in the investment management industry. Read More
The Rise of Active Indexing through ETFs
The real ETF-inspired disruption is in active indexing, says Joanne M. Hill. Read More
ESG Investing’s Growing Influence
The integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into the institutional investment analysis and decision-making process is a mega-trend that investors can no longer ignore, says Emily Chew. Read More
