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US markets had a volatile week following higher than expected inflation leading to a large swing in intraweek Fed rate-hike expectations and renewed fears over AI valuations which weighed on…

The pharmaceuticals industry is characterised by one of the most extensive R&D processes in the economy. The productivity of the process has been a topic of intense discussion for close…

Until recently, Ulanqab was known mostly for potatoes. The prefecture sits 1,500 metres up on the Inner Mongolian plateau, about 350km from Beijing, and is cold for most of the…

For a fund, deciding to sell is only part of the challenge. In this article, we explore how to execute large equity sales efficiently, balancing market impact against the risk…

Every month, Norges Bank tells the market exactly how much foreign currency it will buy or sell on behalf of the Norwegian government over the following month.

KKR’s leveraged buyout of Alliance Boots plc (then a FTSE 100 company) in 2007 was Europe’s largest private equity buyout at the time. Alongside Stefano Pessina, the former CEO of…

Germany’s car industry is shrinking while its defence industry is growing. Carmakers and suppliers are cutting jobs and carry more plant capacity than they need, while a sharp rise in…

The first part of this study began from an intuitive proposition: financial markets are networks, and models capable of learning from those networks should therefore possess an informational advantage over…

Significant changes are happening inside the fixed income markets, particularly in how investment managers decide to allocate their investments. Among asset managers, a prominent group is pension funds, which can…