Young Chinese are renting cameras, drones and camping gear instead of buying them. It’s a clever way to save money — but also the latest challenge to Beijing’s effort to get consumers spending.
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. It’s no secret that private equity firms and their portfolio companies don’t always see eye to eye. A new report by recruiting and consulting firm The Barton Partnership aims to quantify the nature of such “misalignment” between…
Krzysztof Krawczyk thinks the standard investment cycle risks leaving upside on the table. By Jack Arrowsmith, London By the early 2000s, Energis was in deep trouble. The telecoms company had expanded aggressively since listing, and following the dotcom crash the pressure was starting to bite. By July 2002, it was placed into administration. In 2004…
Dive Brief: Occupations most exposed to artificial intelligence saw employment rise 4.05% from 2019 until 2024 as occupations less vulnerable to AI disruption trimmed payrolls, according to research by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Wages rose across occupations during the same period regardless of the degree of AI exposure, researchers at the regional bank said. “These…
Artificial intelligence has quickly become one of the most talked-about topics in financial advice. Yet despite the constant headlines, many advisors are still asking the wrong question. They want to know which AI tool to use. The better question is whether they’re rethinking how they run their business in the first place. During a recent…
The Stanford economist and remote work researcher who helped explain the Great Resignation says many companies are never going back to being fully in-office, and the flexibility offered by remote work is a major reason why. Despite years of high profile return-to-office mandates from companies including Amazon and JPMorgan Chase, this summer has proven to…
Have you ever wondered what would happen to your capital if you simply kept investing a modest sum into the S&P 500 (^GSPC -0.17%) every time the stock market had a meltdown? Even without precisely timing the exact bottom of each crash, you’d still be looking at a pretty sweet pile of cash simply from…
