Investment

via The National : So you missed the bitcoin boom in 2017, or just cashed out with a fortune, and would like to have some festive cheer by the end of next year. Christmas Day might be a moment to pause for thought. As ever the devil is timing when to …

via Fortune : Insights from our annual roundtable on the best stocks and the biggest risks. Every party has to end sometime. That’s the troubling thought that’s been nagging at many investors this year, even as they’ve continued to profit from one of the longest-running bull markets for stocks in history. …

Via Business Insider : The tech scene reacted with surprise to the news that the UK voted to leave the EU. It had been overwhelmingly in favour of remaining, with one poll of tech workers coming out as 87% in favour of staying in the EU. So when news of the …

Via HITC Business : Global Investment Banking Fees Total US$64.5 billion; Slowest Quarter for IB Fees since 2011; America Fees Down 1%; Europe Falls 25% Fees for global Investment Banking services, from M&A advisory to capital markets underwriting, totaled US$64.5 billion during the first nine months of 2015, a 10% decrease …

Via Forbes : Of the 100 members on this year’s Midas List, you can count all the women on one hand. Though it’s a slight improvement from 2014 when only four female partners made FORBES’ ranking of the world’s top venture capitalists, a male-dominated industry should not thump its chest at …

Via Bloomberg : Kentucky high school history teacher Randy Wieck is on a lonely mission to discover the whereabouts of the 12 percent of each paycheck he and 74,800 other educators are putting into a state pension fund. He’s especially keen to unearth details on the $1.1 billion the badly underfunded …

Via LinkedIn : In the simplest terms, investment bubbles are caused when too many investors start to believe an investment case beyond the point at which it is justified by rational analysis of the information available (…and momentum takes hold). The valuation of the sustainability performance and exposure of companies suffers …