Jon Stein was recently interviewed on the Knowledge@Wharton show (you can find the link to the podcast and transcript here). Stein is the founder and CEO of Betterment, a robo-advisory platform that provides fully automated trading and investment solutions. The company uses algorithms to recommend investments based on individual customer preferences, levels of risk tolerance and financial goals. […]

Richard Elman famously named his company after Noble House, James Clavell’s novel about a British trading house in colonial-era Hong Kong (Clavell himself was inspired by the story of Jardine Matheson). Elman likely imagined himself as Ian Dunross, the book’s main character, but it is his current successor who is probably going to feel most like Dunross did at the start of the […]

This week’s readings include Matthew Klein on the case for Japanese equities, Andrew Clifford on his takeaways from a recent business trip to China, Tren Griffin on the Internet bubble of 1999-2001, why Canadian asset managers are investing heavily in India and a Q&A session with Eric Schmidt at the Stanford GSB. US stocks too expensive? Consider Japan: FT Alphaville’s […]

This week’s readings include an FT special report on the work revolution, WSJ coverage of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, quarterly letters from GMO’s Ben Inker and Jeremy Grantham as well as a Bloomberg interview with independent economist Andy Xie. The work revolution: An abundance of tech tools is liberating workers to organise their lives in ways unimaginable […]

PWC recently released a report looking at how the global economic order might change by the year 2050. The study includes the firm’s latest long-term global growth projections to 2050 for 32 of the largest economies in the world. You can find the link to their interactive website here and download a copy of the full report here. Marc Faber, editor of […]