Commercial Real Estate Boom Turns Bust As Pressure Piles On After collapsing during the financial crisis, commercial real estate (CRE) has enjoyed a decade-long boom. Fueled by historically low interest rates, the sustained CRE bull market has seen prices hitting all-time highs from Asia to the Americas and beyond. However, clouds are gathering on
Energy Revolution: Fracking Is Out, Renewables Are In The coal and oil and gas (OG) industries are experiencing a period of upheaval. Demand for cleaner, low-carbon electricity is driving a switch away from coal and oil to natural gas and renewable energy. At the same time, the fast-growing shale industry – which uses
Upgrade your Learning Ability Series: Supercharge Your Learning Programs Now Two tips that will supercharge your learning programs. And won't cost you a cent. In this series of Upgrade your Learning Ability we’re offering you evidence based tips to help you upgrade your own ability to learn better, so that you can learn faster and
EMIR Refit Is Live – What’s Changed? The final text of the revisions to the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), known as EMIR Refit, was published in May. The legislation is now live, and firms must be fully compliant with its various provisions. EMIR Refit made some important changes to the original regulation, many of
Technology is touching every aspect of finance, transforming decades-old practices and redefining core tasks. In our Disruption in Financial Services series, we explore how new tools and technologies are changing the business of finance and reshaping how financial professionals do their jobs. Disruption in Financial Services: Big Tech’s Move into Finance Is Raising Regulatory Hackles
Outsourced Investment Management: Choosing the “Right” OCIO A growing number of institutional investors are seeking to improve cost efficiency, governance, and investment decision-making by outsourcing their investment management to an outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO). In what Institutional Investor describes as an OCIO “earthquake,” assets under full or partial management by OCIOs have risen to over $1.6 trillion and are anticipated to exceed $2
Technology is touching every aspect of finance, transforming decades-old practices and redefining core tasks. In our new series, Disruption in Financial Services, we explore how new tools and technologies are changing the business of finance and reshaping how financial professionals do their jobs. Disruption in Financial Services Fintech Is Shaking Up The Sleepy World
Learning Trend 5: Wired for Speech Each decade has brought with it a new interface to interact with our computers and electronic devices. Where once we typed into a command line beside a blinking green cursor, today we use a mouse with a visual graphical user interface or swipe, tap and pinch our commands into
Learning Trend 4: Big Data and Learning Analytics Uncovering useful knowledge from the data we collect has been happening for some time now, at least since the 90s but when the term ‘Big Data’ entered the Oxford Dictionary in 2013, the ‘big’ that set this data apart referred to a volume, speed and complexity of
Learning Trend 3: Social Learning Comes of Age This trend has been through some ups and down over the last number of years. Social and collaborative learning gained some traction from expectations that everything would become social, paralleling the power of social at the consumer level, then followed by the ‘reality check’ of the complexities
