“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
I chose the list based on several factors, including but not limited to, the convergence of various government policies, investments, enhanced and emerging business opportunities and infrastructural decisions made by the government, private sector and civil society in 2019 and preceding years. Certain patterns have emerged that should make 2020 – best guess – a very special one for business in Jamaica.
In a move to further encourage the development of China’s stock markets and long term investment, the government in this move is trying to discouraging something that has plagued western markets – short term speculation.
The investor lawsuits, I believe, will largely center around investors claiming that these financial products where much more risky than represented by the investment banks that sold them.
By: Ainsley Brown The use of art as an investment is not a new concept, whether it is commissioning a piece for your self or buying existing works, art as an investment is centuries old. But what about investing in the right to buy an artist’s future works; that is as yet to be conceptualized future works? Don’t think it
By: Eran D. Grossman Yes that’s right. With growing concern about a commercial real estate bust and home prices continuing to fall, real estate stocks are soaring. What you say? Shares of Real Estate Investments Trusts, a/k/a REITs, are lucrative investment vehicles thus far in 2010. The IShares Dow Jones Real Estate exchange-traded fund, which owns about seventy-five real estate
By: Ainsley Brown India has needs to improve its corporate governance regime; so says, the Hong Kong based advocacy group, Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA). The ACGA’s report comes in the wake of the Satyam Computer Services scandal where the companies head admitted to defrauding the company for many years. The scandal helped expose so of the obvious as well
By: Ainsley Brown The Toronto Dominion Bank (TD), one of Canada’s leading financial instructions has been fined £7 million by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). The FSA, charged with policing financial institutions in the UK, has imposed the fourth highest fine in its history on TD for repeatedly failing “to follow established procedures in ensuring the trader’s books were independently
By: Ainsley Brown Credit Suisse has agreed to settle allegations of insider trading in Brazil for R$19.2 million. The fine is the second largest, after the Banco Safra case of 2007, levied on a company by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil – Commissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM). The offer to settle is substantially more than Credit Suisse’s original
By: Ainsley Brown Yes that right, I am referring to the English Rugby team – the Leicester Tigers. Sorry but I just had to do this, being a rugby fan and all, I will make any excuse to write on the subject. The Leicester Tigers, the current Guinness Premiership – the English Rugby Union’s top competition – it would seem are planning to
By: Ainsley Brown Yes, you read right, Tim Hortons is back in Canada. I like most of you never knew it went anywhere. I know what you are thinking: Ainsley, you must either be playing a prank, or going crazy or were you just up late and tired and in desperate of a double double because I just brought some