Consumers across Asia are becoming wealthier, older, and more sophisticated in their behaviors and attitudes towards financial services. Rising affluence and high net worth across Asia. The population of affluent and high net worth individuals is grwoing rapidly across Asia...

Why was risk management not effective in preventing financial institutions from bubbles in the past? 1. Because the emerge of the bubbles were not recognized at all. 2. Because risk managers did not have sufficient authority to stop the nonsense....

Financial Services Plurilateral Request; The Recent CTFS Meetings; CTFS Informals; CTFS Mandate; Status Quo in CTFS...

Measuring Financial services production in the economy. Difficult to measure...Only some charges are directly invoiced...

The Spanish immigration phenomenon and its consequences for the insurance industry, The effect of immigration on the demographic time-bomb in Spain; The effect of immigration on the Spanish insurance market...

The subprime crisis which hit the United States in summer 2007 and morphed into a full blow global financial upheaval in autumn 2008 has taken a heavy toll on the insurance industry. Some industry players with significant financial markets and banking operations were seriously damaged by the...

Much has been written in the press about the current global credit crisis and the consequences on the real economy. We want to take a step back and take stock of what we think should be the lessons learnt from an investment practicioner's point of view in order to avoid repeating the same...