Jerome “Jay” Powell is a name that we are all going to hear a lot more of over at least the next four years. This morning, US President Donald Trump nominated Jay Powell as the next chair of the US Federal Reserve. As the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Mr Powell will wield incredible […]
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Crisis management can be defined as the process by which an organisation deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organisation, its stakeholders, or the general public. I recently had the opportunity to meet and listen to Dr Ben Bernanke, who served two terms as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve […]
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If I cast my mind back to my university days (approximately 25 years ago) I recall undertaking a finance subject in which we compared returns from active fund managers to respective index returns that those same managers were being paid to beat. The outcome of the study over varying time periods was dismal if you […]
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