Statistical modeling illustrates that Kumar Sangakkara – who will be playing his last international game for Sri Lanka in August 2015 - belongs nowhere other than at the very top of the contemporary batting pantheon

Millions of people are being won over by music streaming, which offers huge catalogs of recorded material on demand on multiple de vices though one online subscription. In Sri Lanka, somehow, no major streaming service was available until Apple Music’s global launch this year.

Mano Tittawella brought back government-run People’s Bank from a deep hole. Fifteen years later, he is trying to do the same for a family-run business, the EAP Group, and hopes to go further, but only because they are willing to take the pain

An opportunity for a new career and a different way of living are encouraging European citizens, particularly Brits, to migrate to Sri Lanka.

Owning unconventional collectible assets can be a delightful experience. Besides the joys of ownership, their returns are reasonably good, but risks including liquidity are also elevated

The stock exchange is celebrating a milestone in 2015. Its short-term aim is to modernize and update its trading infrastructure

Homeware store Abdul Rahims has benefited from being a big fish in a small pond. In the last decade they also deepened the pond by growing as a wholesaler. In its fifth generation of family leadership, the firm now needs to make another leap

Some Sea Street gold jewelers are fading because their children don’t want to join the business. Ravi Jewellers is an exception

Careful succession planning and awareness of consumer trends have transformed umbrella manufacturer Rainco into a provider of merchandise that not only protects from the weather, but also helps consumers enjoy it.

Real estate returns have generally exceeded those of fixed income in the past two decades. How will real estate returns now respond to Sri Lanka’s accelerating urbanisation and tourism boom? Will returns soar?

The profligate ways of Sri Lanka’s budget has landed the country in balance-of-payments trouble, again. This is the major challenge in allocating a long-term portfolio

Tony Nadaraja credits his rise from a casual worker to Chief Executive at Hirdaramani Group to an ethos that promotes and nurtures its employees.

What’s become of our local ‘mermaids’?

Where is the real wealth created?

When I was growing up in the 1970s, Sri Lanka’s media landscape was very different

Sri Lanka is now proceeding steadily into greater balance of payments pressure, with some mild signs of debt distress also emerging and in a twist not seen in the past, the Central Bank itself is getting increasingly into debt.

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Chief Operating Officer is also musically talented, albeit when intoxicated.