FROM EAST TO WEST
IN 1934, NEPAL WAS CRIPPLED BY A CATASTROPHIC EARTHQUAKE. FROM THE RUBBLE, COMMERCE AND SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE EMERGED, INCLUDING A ROW OF SHOPS ALONG WHAT...
The CSE at 30: Where to now?
Stock exchanges make it possible for companies to raise money. If exchanges didn’t exist people wouldn’t invest in firms, which are unlikely to return...
Media Reforms: The Unfinished Agenda
When I was growing up in the 1970s, Sri Lanka’s media landscape was very different. We had only one radio station (state-owned SLBC) and...
50 Most Powerful Women- Capital Markets
#20 ASHVEENI SHANTHIKUMAR CHIEF EXECUTIVE, CAPITAL ALLIANCE INVESTMENTS Capital Alliance Investments – the mutual fund and asset management unit of investment bank Capital Alliance...
50 Most Powerful Women – #3 Linda Speldewinde
#3 LINDA SPELDEWINDE FOUNDER, Academy of Design & Sri Lanka Design Festival Cotscompany.com, launching in December 2014, is a venture Linda Speldewinde hopes to use to connect...
50 Most Powerful Woman – #4 Otara Gunewardene
#4 OTARA GUNEWARDENE FOUNDER, Odel & Embark Optimisms about human nature Growth levels off as people or even nations approach frontiers of satisfaction. Expansionist monetary policy has failed over two...
Protectionist syndrome
Global Trade Alert, a monitoring service, has a world map on its website showing both protectionist and liberalising measures countries have taken. There have...
Banking on mobile money
Financial innovation got a bad rap during the global banking crisis.Even in Sri Lanka a number of financial firms run by incompetent and corrupt...
The Point of High Return
For investors hindsight can be a frustrating thing. Thousands of individual investors, who are holding speculative portfolios now worth a fraction of what they...