There are over 8,000,000 RV owners in the U.S., and they all have to stay somewhere. But that’s no excuse for not treating every single one as though they are the most important customer in the world. That kind of attitude will propel you to the top of the pile in RV park owners –…
People spend a huge amount of their time reading and studying stock market research and financial newsletters on how to invest their retirement funds. If you have $200,000 in savings, at the prevailing CD rate of 3%, that’s $6,000 per year. And even if you are the best stock picker since Warren Buffet, you are…
Equities find positive territoryMost G20 bourses closed up in positive territory at the end of Q3. The FTSE 100 went up 21 percent. Between July and September 2009 it rose a number of times, particularly during August when it was reported to have climbed by 8.4 percent over the course of the year, having rallied…
It’s amazing what a difference a couple of dots can make to a bank’s image. As today’s post-meltdown banks rush to remind nervous clients of their stability, one of the global banking giants has gone back to its heritage to do so. Having taken a long look at what customers really want in a bank,…
An investment banker associate of mine recently shared an interesting statistic. He said his business, a veteran establishment, currently spends around 80 percent of its time with buyers. This time is spent reassuring them that they’re getting a good deal when buying a company. Now that’s a sign of the times. Rewind two years, and…
For at least a quarter-century, the financial sector has grown far more rapidly than the economy as a whole, both in developed and in most developing countries. The ratio of total financial assets (stocks, bonds, and bank deposits) to GDP in the UK was about 100 percent in 1980, while by 2006 it had risen…
If banks provide the fuel for modern economies, then corporates are its engines. Without them, we would earn and consume nothing, trade would evaporate, savings would be wiped out, banks would fail and tax receipts would plunge. Care then is needed when drafting rules and protocols to ensure they do not drive corporates off the…
Banco Espírito Santo Angola is not only known for its financial performance, but also for its hard work in corporate citizenship. In economic sustainability, BESA was honoured by UNESCO and the International Committee for the Development of Planet Earth for promoting sustainability in Angola. It was crowned ‘BESA, the Bank for the Planet’, which means…
Caribbean As many attack so-called “tax havens”, Natalie Shaw speaks to Shawna Lake, whose firm SKIPA promote development in St Kitts & Nevis France Companies have been going wrong and being bailed out globally. Liam Vaughan suggests that France is offering less protection for creditors than, say, the UK or the US. Vaughan goes on…
China is worried about the long-term decline of the dollar, mainly because it holds somewhere north of $1,000bn in US government debt. As a Chinese economist notes in a masterly piece of understatement, “a trillion (in greenbacks) is a hot potato.” Several other Asian countries holding vast dollar amounts are worried for the very same…
