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What a brief encounter with Elon Musk taught me about the limits of capitalism

What a brief encounter with Elon Musk taught me about the limits of capitalism

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SVB collapse reminds us long-term investors, too, can panic – but don’t

"A long-term investor sells when it wants to, not because it has to." This is an especially clear and succinct definition of long-term investing. Long-term investing is about how the institution behaves, not a fixed time period.

The ultimate trophy asset: When prestige is more important than returns

Forget returns. The Gulf SWFs vying for ownership of European football clubs are after amenity value, soft power influence and winning regional rivalries. The returns only come at the end when they sell these trophy assets… as long as there are enough billionaires in the world to buy them.

Opportunities in Chinese healthcare

Sam Radwan, an expert in China's healthcare sector, and co-founder of Enhance International a consultancy that advises Chinese insurers, discusses the driving forces behind the sector.

EU must overhaul pensions; fees to blame

It’s well and good for policy makers to insist on saving earlier and for longer, but when all is said and done, pension funds simply too often underperform capital markets, and this is, by and large, due to excessive fees and commissions. The EU needs to take a closer look, argues president of Better Finance, Axel Kleinlein.

Clearing the climate obstacles

In the wake of the Climate Action 100+ annual progress report, CEO of the PRI, Fiona Reynolds calls on corporate boards to step up. And the first action item is to either transform the industry associations they belong to that undermine climate action, or resign from them.

Is active investing doomed?

In what might be seen as a boon, or at-least a close escape from extinction, a review of academic literature finds that investors should not entirely rule out using active funds management. The academic evidence is not sufficient to write-off an active approach, says Geoff Warren, it just depends on the circumstances.

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