Angel investing is not a retirement hobby for bankers
Former financiers might assume a knack for picking winners, but investing alone requires a different set of capabilities
If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?
It’s the defining technology of an era. But just how artificial intelligence (AI) will end up shaping our future remains a controversial question.
For techno-optimists, who see the technology improving our lives, it heralds a future of material abundance.
That outcome is far from guaranteed. But even if AI’s technical promise is realised – and with it, once intractable problems are solved – how will that abundance be used?
Ghana’s war on illegal mining has failed – we set out to find out why
Early in his eight-year tenure, in 2017, then Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo declared a moratorium on all small-scale gold mining. He established an inter-ministerial committee on illegal mining and a joint military-police taskforce – Operation Vanguard – to enforce the ban.
JPMorgan steps up planning for new Canary Wharf tower
Redeveloping plot acquired in 2008 under serious consideration owing to expense of renovating current office
The small east German bank that cannot drop its far-right customer
Extremist parties are opening accounts with the Sparkassen network of regional lenders
Burford Capital seeks to buy equity stakes in US law firms
New corporate structures could get around long-standing restrictions against non-lawyer ownership of firms
UK consumers risk inflation hit to savings for first time in two years
Banks slash interest rates paid to customers in response to base rate cuts; inflation forecast to peak at 4%
Downsizing is back — and may be more attractive than ever
Would you trade down to lower your inheritance tax bill?
CoreWeave investors sell more than $1bn in shares as IPO lock-up ends
Director Jack Cogen offloads stake with an aggregate market value of about $300mn
WEF clears Klaus Schwab of material wrongdoing
Davos forum names BlackRock’s Larry Fink as interim co-chair after whisteblower allegations rejected
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