Mars in the Ascendent
Back in the good old depression days, J Maynard Keynes worked out how to kick start a faltering economy: the government had to...
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ESG Archive
Spotlight on Brussels
Brussels is a city of contradictions. You ask people what it's like to live there and they'll tell you it's a parochial village...
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Millennium Musing
I don't think much about computers. The occasional question crosses my mind - like, if they can build or program a machine which...
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Spotlight on Hong Kong
Other cities may vy for its title, but Hong Kong is still the dominant financial center in southeast Asia and looks set to remain...
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In Search of Shareholder Value
Rarely has a phrase buzzed so persistently as shareholder value. And rarely have buzzwords been so fuzzy. As that well known CEO...
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Voting Value
Tunnel-digging and corporate governance. Not things that you'd normally associate with each other - unless reference is being made...
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Open Competition
Flick through most annual reports on both sides of the Atlantic and you might think that companies don't know the names of their...
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Immaterial Possessions
If an asset is weightless, colorless, and odorless, and leaves no trace on the balance sheet, does it exist? You would not expect...
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How they do it at AES CORP
Investor Relations magazine sometimes stumbles unknowingly into the crossfire of turf wars when we approach an IR department famed...
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Latin America's Next Wave
Latin America again looms bright on the radar screens of US investors. While huge privatizations still make the biggest impact...
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