The Japanese stock market is cheaper today than at the depths of the financial crisis. The country’s stocks trade at the lowest valuations in over twenty years

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While few can argue with the positives of automated, algorithm-based portfolio management platforms, the advent of the cost-efficient, dispassionate robo-advisor has struck fear into the heart of many a financial advisor and fund manager, who see these technology options as a threat to their business practice

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Last week, I almost peed in my hotel room closet. Yeah, you read that right. It was the middle of the night. I’d been in different hotels (interspersed with brief sojourns at home) for part of every week since the beginning of the year. And for one brief and almost disastrous moment, I simply forgot where I was. Luckily, I came to my sleep-addled senses when I tripped over one of my own shoes, placed strategically outside the closet door. But still, it was a sobering moment

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As climate change has caught worldwide attention, the World Bank Group, business groups, and investors have called on governments and corporations to support carbon pricing to bring down emissions and drive profitable investments in a much cleaner, sustainable and low carbon industrial world

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