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For the week ending December 4, 2015 The interplay of markets and central bank agendas created volatile moves in all financial assets during the week, both on the upside and downside, as market expectations were not met. On Thursday, Mario Draghi, th...

Week ending November 27, 2015 All eyes are on the Fed so the slew of US economic data that came out last week takes on considerable importance with respect to whether the Fed raises short-term interest rates or not. Third-quarter GDP was revised to...

A firm with two Bermudian founders is set to propose a multibillion-dollar infrastructure plan to the Government. Urban Maximum Industries, Inc (UMI), founded by Craig Looby and Arthur Brangman, wants to build a new Causeway and bridge in an initial ...

The investment community is coming to grips with the effects from the horrific attacks in Paris. These abhorrent actions should not be callously dismissed and retribution is being dealt with as we speak. But what of the financial and market effects? ...

Week ending November 6, 2015 Our strategy worked really well last week with the performance on the Global Equities fund about 150 basis points ahead of the S&P 1200 Global Index and the Dividend Income approximately 100 basis points ahead of the same...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Athene Holding Ltd, the annuity provider tied to Apollo Global Management LLC, hired Michael Solf to oversee asset-management strategy at its new Germany operation. Solf was named chief investment officer in the r...

By now most investors are aware of Exchange Traded Funds or ETFs as they are commonly called. ETFs, in their most basic form, are publicly-traded funds designed to track broad market indices such as the Standard & Poor’s 500 or the MSCI World Stock I...

Markets ended the second quarter of 2015 on somewhat of a sour note as concerns over the European leadership’s inability to strike a constructive deal with Greece weighed heavily on risk assets during the last few days of June. Meanwhile, rising long...

Trees don’t grow to the sky. After surging over 150 per cent over the past year, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index forest has been cut down. The recent breathtaking destruction of capital seen in China has sucked a huge amount of oxygen out...

I probably don’t need to tell you that Greece has a debt problem. Actually, it’s better to call it a crisis. It now faces two very large and imminent debt payments: 2 billion euros due to the International Monetary Fund (“IMF”) within 30 days and by ...

On the taxi ride back home from the LF Wade International Airport a couple of weeks ago my unapologetic driver informed me the fare had gone from the usual $30 to about $40, a 33 per cent increase. That made me think of a topic which I believe every ...

The unicorn, of course, is the legendary animal rarely seen and difficult to capture. Unicorns are not just part of mythology anymore, however. In fact they are more common than ever. The unicorns I’m referring to are not the beasts with the large po...