09/30/2012

Dubai is bouncing back on track, says Doha Bank Group CEO

The GCC states are rightly investing heavily into infrastructure development, modernizing the existing structure to pave way for uninterrupted economic growth in the coming years, said Mr. R Seetharaman, Group CEO, Doha Bank.

09/16/2012

Private banks set to benefit from Qatar wealth management

Wealth transfer to the next generation provides private banks with opportunities to “deepen relationships” with their clients and “fulfil the social promise as engines of economic prosperity”, says a top Standard Chartered executiv

09/09/2012

Business ethics: split the myth from the hard reality

Al Gini, a professor of business ethics at the School of Business Administration at Loyola University in Chicago, has a different perspective. He argues that business is not inherently bad, it just happens to offer many temptations – to counter this

08/07/2012

The Evolution of Investment Reporting by Phil Banas

In his book The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin laid out his theory of evolution, in which he theorized that effective adaptation to their environments led certain organisms to survive and flourish, while those that did so less well fell by the wayside

08/07/2012

Burgernomics: the Big Mac Index

The index is not perfect and the relationship does not hold in reality because of a number of factors, but it is useful in highlighting big anomalies. Thus on a light-hearted look, Big Macs are now cheapest in Hong Kong and cost less in London than Zurich