Dr. Robecca Quammen is the founder of Quammen Health Care Consultants. She has synthesized a lifelong career in healthcare ranging from hospital leadership, to large software vendor to private consulting. She recently completed doctoral studies with research on human intuition and its impact in information systems success. With healthcare as the context for this research, […]
UBS Group AG and PwC have launched their joint deep dive report, “The changing faces of billionaires,” which explores the role of women in building lasting financial legacies and how wealth is preserved across multiple generations. The report’s findings, which build upon UBS/PwC’s 2015 Billionaires Report released last May, "Master architects of great wealth and lasting […]
Only 6% of the world’s top 1500 companies have appointed a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) to oversee the digital transformation of their business, but their ranks are growing, according to the results of a new study about the role from Strategy&, PwC's strategy consulting business. The 2015 Chief Digital Officer Study looks at the top 1,500 public and private […]
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has announced its Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC), the largest unlisted bank and the sixth largest commercial bank in China in terms of assets. The two banks also signed a Securities Purchase Agreement and an Investors Rights Agreement. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is one of the […]
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) has announced that it will expand its clean energy target to $150 billion in financings and investments by 2025 as part of its updated Environmental Policy Framework. First established in November 2005, the new framework codifies the roadmap for continued environmental progress across each of Goldman Sachs’ businesses. “Over the past […]
Around half of hedge fund firms intend to launch a new hedge fund by the end of next year and most are reporting rising assets, according to a global survey by PwC and the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global industry body representing alternative asset managers. The report, ‘Global Hedge Fund Distribution Survey 2015: Distribution […]
Finance Monthly is pleased to announce that the official publication of its first ever Tax Awards is now available online. The 2015 Finance Monthly Tax Awards celebrate and recognise excellence across an increasingly diverse and dynamic tax industry. Each year our awards publications celebrate the individuals and firms who have excelled in their particular area […]
Finance Monthly is pleased to announce that the official publication of its annual Deal Maker Awards edition for 2015 is now available online. Finance Monthly’s Deal Maker awards acknowledge and reward excellence in corporate finance transactions completed in 2015. The Deal Maker Awards recognise corporate finance specialists, lawyers, bankers, deal transaction support, entrepreneurs, asset based […]
KPMG International announced aggregated network revenues of US$24.44 billion for the fiscal year, representing an 8.1% increase in local currency terms (up from 6.3% in the previous year). “This has been an exciting year for KPMG, as we have continued to innovate and invest at a record pace to meet rapidly changing global business demands. […]
Hermes discusses the impact of the Federal Reserve’s widely expected increase in the benchmark US rate on overall market risk, credit, multi-asset investing, and equities in the US small- and mid-cap sector, global emerging markets, Europe and Asia ex-Japan. Saker Nusseibeh, Chief Executive, Hermes Investment Management If 2015 was the financial equivalent of Waiting for […]
The escalating threat from cybercrime is set to force companies into upping the skills of their boardroom executives in 2016, a global security and risk management consulting firm has predicted. "There is a lack of specialist cyber skills in boardrooms worldwide, including Britain’s, which is likely to become increasingly clear as 2016 progresses," said Ed […]
The Government has released the review of its annual auto-enrolment thresholds (available here). Earnings trigger proposed to remain frozen at £10,000 – broadly eligible employees earning above this level are auto-enrolled. This would bring an additional 130,000 individuals into scope of being auto-enrolled, 71% of whom are women. Estimated further £23 million of pension savings […]
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