This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Pavel Ermoline, Investment Director , Moonfare, Blazej Kupec, Senior Content Manager, Moonfare Access to private markets – investment in equity or debt not traded on public exchanges – is broadening to include individuals in addition to institutions and […]Investors are increasingly attracted to private markets. Why?
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Pavel Ermoline, Investment Director , Moonfare, Blazej Kupec, Senior Content Manager, Moonfare Access to private markets – investment in equity or debt not traded on public exchanges – is broadening to include individuals in addition to institutions and […]Capital Markets Union: Commission proposes new rules to protect and empower retail investors in the EU
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This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The Commission has today adopted a Retail Investment Package that places the consumers’ interests at the centre of retail investing. The aim is to empower retail investors (i.e. “consumer” investors) to make investment decisions that are aligned with their needs and preferences, ensuring that […]How should start-ups act in the face of recession? 5 investors share their advice
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum./ Author: Emanuela Orsini, Digital Content Specialist, World Economic Forum We live in uncertain economic times. According to the World Economic Forum’s latest Chief Economists Outlook, “there are signs of nascent optimism, and the growth outlook has picked up across all […]3 tips from trillion-dollar investors on sealing the co-investment deal
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Kevin Lu, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute, Akanksha Madan, Student Researcher, Yale-NUS Co-investing is a financial model that sees smaller investors collaborate with larger partners, avoiding fees, exchanging knowledge and opening up new investments.In 2012, 24% of Limited Partners […]How female founders and investors are shaking up venture capital
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Sarah Chen, Co Founder & Managing Partner, Beyond The Billion & The Billion Dollar Fund for Women Majority of venture capital investment goes to all-male teams, but investors are recognizing the opportunity of investing into gender diverse teams.Bold […]Investors must travel a winding road to net-zero. Here’s a map
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Jo Taylor, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan For institutional investors, the path to net zero is not straightforward – but it is navigable.Earning both financial and environmental returns can be done, but it requires […]How can impact investors balance the green energy equation?
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Bianca Ghose, Chief Storyteller, Wipro Impact investors must be aware of both the positive and negative consequences of their activities.Clean energy sources all involve some environmental cost, such as disposing of equipment at the end of its life.Understanding […]The new crisis is already creeping into the financial system
August 29, 2019 by 1 Comment
Unquestionably, everything is wrong in the international financial system, even though the major central banks have actually donated trillions to the banking ‘community’. The US central bank, the Fed, has lent almost free of charge $4.5 trillion to the American banking hub. On this side of the Atlantic Ocean, the European Central Bank has done […]Investors have a role in securing our shared digital future
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Algirde Pipikaite, Project Lead, Governance and Policy, World Economic Forum & Martina Cheung, President, S&P Global Market Intelligence Cyberattacks have almost doubled in the past five years with no sign of slowing down. Due to the increasing number of cyber breaches, […]Here are 4 ways investors can influence more secure and responsible innovation
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Algirde Pipikaite, Project Lead, Governance and Policy, World Economic Forum Modern society is systematically dependent on digital technologies, and has reached a point of no return. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, in enabling our transition to the digital world, has […]IMF: When high yield goes boom
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This article is brought to you in association with the International Monetary Fund Written by Divya Kirti We’ve all heard about good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. Too much of the good stuff probably won’t do you any harm. Too much of the bad stuff can lead to a heart attack. The same idea applies to […]The representatives of the regions and the cities know better what the EU needs on migration, trade, poverty and taxation
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The 115th plenary of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) was convened on 3 and 4 December and discussed a number of burning issues, which have been haunting the European Union during the last difficult years. The CoR is the voice of regions and cities of the European Union. Its 350 members are the […]ECB’s billions fortify south Eurozone except Greece; everybody rushes to invest in euro area bonds zeroing their yields
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Even without having spent yet a single euro the European Central Bank’s program of sovereign bond buying of €60 billion a month has had an enormous impact on world financial markets. It suppressed the euro dollar parity from the unbearably high levels of 2014 (1.39 on 9 March 2014) to 1.08510 last Friday, the lowest […]Can the banking union help Eurozone counter its imminent threats?
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The completion of European Banking Union project last month, the most important undertaking of the EU after the introduction of the common euro currency, is undoubtedly the result of a long negotiated compromise, and as such it has many drawbacks. Firstly, it doesn’t recognize the fact that Eurozone’s mega-banks were the main culpable party for […]Eurozone’s credibility rock solid
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The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) issued yesterday its first short-term debt paper (bills), which met an unprecedented success in this capital market auction. The bid/cover ratio was 3.2. This means that for every euro of this debt issue, investors offered 3.2 euros. The bills mature on 4 April 2013. In detail this ESM’s bill issue […]
