The economic outlook is positive at the mid-year point, thanks in large part to the significant economic stimulus packages over the past year, but all this growth may come at a price. Investors need t ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-29
Most people have this idea that making films is an expensive proposition, especially when they hear that Hollywood blockbuster film budgets can sometimes top US$100M. But in the last few years, filmma ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-28
Humanity is drifting into increasing danger. Climate change is accelerating; biodiversity is plummeting; hunger and extreme poverty are rising; and the gap between rich and poor is widening. These tre ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-25
In a recent essay on Samantha Power, President Joe Biden’s new administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times writes – correctly – tha ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-25
As we move through 2021, there are more signs of a return to pre-pandemic normalcy, at least in countries not reeling from dangerous new variants of the coronavirus. High-frequency economic indicators ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-25
It’s January 2022. Countries around the world are teeming with life again. Roads and trains are packed with employees commuting to work. High street retailers are seeing foot traffic, and restaurants ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-24
When the United States began to roll out COVID-19 vaccines earlier this year, uptake in black communities lagged behind their white counterparts. Many assumed this was by choice: the history of medica ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-23
Although the banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) industry can be seen as one of the most change-adverse industries, the sector has adapted surprisingly well to the pandemic. Since last y ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-22
At the recent G7 summit in Cornwall, Sir David Attenborough described the decisions currently facing the world’s richest countries as “the most important in human history.” He is right. The summit was ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-22
Both the COVID-19 pandemic and global warming are about survival, and are health crises at their core. But typology is not their only common feature. We can also overcome them in a similar way – by wo ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-18
The latest G7 summit was a waste of resources. If it had to be held at all, it should have been conducted online, saving time, logistical costs, and airplane emissions. But, more fundamentally, G7 sum ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-17
In Hong Kong, money can’t always buy happiness. That was the latest observation by the city’s top fund manager Cheah Cheng Hye, who attempted to explain the irony of why one of the world’s richest cit ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-16
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the ultimate test of resilience for capital market firms – not least in the volatility it has brought to the financial industry. Asset managers have certainly faced thei ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-16
