If you decide to pursue a financial career don’t be surprised. At university, you will be making 40+ applications in your first year and that’s just the easy part. After the first year, once you have mastered the technique of applications the numbers just go up. But let’s rewind, all the way back to my […]
Thursday marked the end of the Financial Times’ “The Global Boardroom”. It is a global digital conference that gathered leaders in policy, business, tech and finance on May 12-14 for three days of online conversations with top FT journalists on the economic impact of the pandemic. It summarised the interesting insights and conversations from those […]
So far, we have looked at the impact of the virus on the economy and the consumer as well as what we should expect in the coming months as we approach a potential recovery. This week the conversation was focused on what we have done in response to the virus and what measures have been […]
It has been another week of interesting panel discussions over the web. Many new perspectives and ideas have been brought up yet again allowing us to have a better picture of what the coming months are expected to look like. If you’ve read my last article, you’ll notice that there are ideas that are the […]
As you will be hearing and already have heard the data screaming the impacts of the Great Corona Crisis (GCC). The 6.8% YoY Q1 China GDP decline, the 58% drop in auto sales and the near 70% drop in JPMs profits are very alarming but they are screams from the past. We’re still in the […]
From selling candle and soap, this small family business grew through innovation, strong marketing and partnerships to become one of the largest consumer goods company in the world. They created the world-famous tide washing pods and pampers, which I’m sure many of you might have used and even acquired Gillette. So, what’s changed throughout the […]
If you have taken part in a finance class or have completed some sort of finance related task there’s a high chance that you will have come across a term that is called the risk-free rate. Now I have been taught this concept many times myself, whether for the use in the calculations in the […]
For a firm that gained a price increase of nearly 300% over 4 years, you’d need to blink twice when looking at the price chart performance today as it is hard to believe the freefall this stock has experienced (or considering the current market conditions, maybe it is not). The past 4 years is a […]
