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Do you remember when you were young and your parents and teachers taught you the importance of sharing? If you have your own kids now, you are probably teaching them to share as well. Sharing does make you a better person as it helps you to interact ...

A few random ramblings on the markets and the macro investing situation to start the week: Iraq The turmoil and chaos in Iraq is putting a bid under the energy markets. This of course is helping to escalate the price of crude oil and energy cost worl...

Bermuda has a major opportunity to get involved in “shadow banking”, according to a top fixed-income asset manager. Cliff Corso, chief executive officer of New York-based Cutwater Asset Management, which manages around $23 billion, said the shrinking...

Already, 2014 is shaping up to be an exceedingly robust year for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. Announced deals so far this year total $1.6 trillion globally, up a whopping 79 percent from last year’s tally. North America, Europe and Asia Pa...

For many people the stock market was already viewed as a casino and a giant gamble; its systems and processes opaque and nonsensical. The latest firestorm on High Frequency Trading (HFT) has not helped dispute this view. Lately the market has been bu...

By Bryan Dooley Over the past year or so, emerging market equities have been an investment pariah, regularly slammed on concerns of political upheaval, falling growth rates and financial imbalances. However, investors with a longer term time horizon ...

Leverage is a wonderful thing when it works in your favour. It enables development, amplifies returns and at times offers illusory periods of above-trend growth. Eventually, however, the effects of additional debt begin to fade and, on the margin, of...

“In a market economy such as ours, economic activity or growth is not dictated by Government but rather determined by entrepreneurs and their employees working in their own self-interest. The Government’s job is to create a favourable and fair enviro...

“ ... there is the dream and the will to found a private kingdom ... there is the will to conquer: the impulse to fight, to prove oneself superior to others, to succeed for the sake, not of the fruits of success, but of success itself ... Finally t...