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“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...

According to the Book of Odds, a collection of statistics about everyday life, of the 317 million adults in the US, only one in 2.2 make a New Year’s resolution. Of these, one in 8, or 17.8 million will actually keep it for the year. If you do manage...

“While doctors might be able to advise patients about their general health, they could not determine whether a healthy patient would be struck by a brick upon leaving the hospital.” — in “Fortune Tellers” by Walter Friedman “As I think back over the...

In January of last year I laid out 13 unexpected events or surprise situations that were currently outside of the conventional consensus opinion that I felt had a reasonable chance of occurring (http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20130114/COLUMN05/7...

This is the final instalment of the three-part series on retirement planning and investing. “Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.” - George Burns Retirement planning lore is littered with conventional wisdom, h...

This is the second part of a three-part series on retirement planning. “Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life in retirement should be fun and stress free; the “golden years”. However, man...

Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the next US Federal Reserve Bank chairman to succeed Ben Bernanke and so far the financial markets like the decision. Both fixed income and equity markets rose immediately after Yellen’s speech to the Senate Banking...

Expect to see more hedge fund managers setting up reinsurance companies in Bermuda as a way of boosting their investment returns. That was one of the takeaways from the seventh annual EY Hedge Fund Symposium last week which packed the Harbourview Bal...

The S&P 500 is having its best year since 2003 with gains of over 26 percent year to date. Small cap stocks are soaring even further — up some 30 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been hitting record highs — up over 20 percent as well....

Investors should not regard the handsome total returns from the bond market seen over the past three decades as normal, according to the CEO of Schroders’ US operations. Karl Dasher, who is in Bermuda this week for talks with clients of the London-ba...