Investment
Timothy Enneking, Chairman and co-founder, Altima Asset Management
With its high population, exploding consumer growth rate and the third largest currency reserves in the world, Russia should be an obvious buy choice for investors – but this is far from the case. Mr Enneking explores the fear that still surrounds the country, including the big elephant in the room : corruption.
June 26, 2011Related by the tag Europe
Telecoms
Costis Papadimitrakopoulos, CEO, Globo
Business telephony has moved swiftly past the BlackBerry archetype and is now embracing the bring-your-own-device trend – which presents new challenges of control and security for businesses. Globo’s CEO discusses his company’s GO!Enterprise Server solution for secure enterprise telephony, its origins in providing a smartphone experience on feature phones, and the possibility of moving from London’s AIM to New York’s Nasdaq.
May 9, 2012
Brokerage
Michael Konnaris, CEO, easy-forex
Currency volatility, the single dominant factor driving the forex market, has been one of the key features of 2011, as every day the world speculates on the future of Europe as a whole and its member countries individually. Michael Konnaris discusses the growth of the market, and how easy-forex is capitalising on increased retail interest – especially in Asia.
May 2, 2012
Investment
Dr Erling Refsum, CEO, Farsight Bioscience
While a lot of biotech solutions are developed from the ground up – by researchers investigating possibilities and potential – Farsight works the other way around – by identifying a market need and developing the science to provide a solution. Dr Refsum talks about his ideal project, the pressure on traditional research streams, and the global potential for scientific development.
April 30, 2012Related by the tag Hedge Funds
Investment
Maggie Rokkum-Testi and Matteo Zannier, Thalia SA Hedge Fund Investments
2008 was a challenging year for everybody, but fund of funds were particularly affected. Ms Rokkum Testi and Mr Zannier explain the lessons that have been learned from the crisis, and how the solutions that Thalia offer have evolved to match the new needs of investors.
June 28, 2011