According to the 2024 Allianz Global Insurance Report, “the global insurance industry grew by an estimated 7.5 percent in 2023, therefore achieving the fastest growth in almost two decades, since 2006 ...

It is becoming more and more apparent that the developing threat of climate change is not simply damaging the earth’s natural ecosystem, but is also harming the world economy With the global economy ...

Since time immemorial, alcohol has been a part of the social fabric of human life on earth. The earliest evidence of intentional alcohol production stems back to 7,000BC, from fermented residues found ...

In 2014, the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared sleep disorders a “public health epidemic”; two years later, the World Health Organisation released a study, Sleep ...

Until last September, few people beyond the close-knit world of pension asset managers had heard of ‘liability-driven investment’ (LDI), a trading strategy deployed by many pension funds. When the ...

One way of measuring global policy-makers’ concerns about the unprecedented increase in debt around the world is the number of times the subject is raised at high-level conferences. And it comes up ...

Every year, thousands of the world’s foremost leaders and business elite trek to the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland. In the Alpine town of Davos, geopolitical issues are hashed out, economic ...

Building on the momentum of last year’s historic World Cup, Qatar is racing towards an exciting new phase of development. Seeking to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, Qatar’s next chapter will put ...

Unlike many financial products, the precious metal had a fine year. By the end of 2020, its price had increased by 25 percent, outperforming other major asset classes. Its ascent was temporarily ...

With fiscal constraints a dominant feature of the economic landscape across major economies, politicians’ eyes are increasingly alighting on the trillions managed by financial institutions. They are ...

Economically speaking, it has been the kind of year that any entrepreneur dreads. After the long recovery from the Great Recession, many economic experts and business moguls allowed themselves to ...

More than 50 percent of the world’s population is under the age of 30. But raging global inflation means most of Gen Z, born in the late 1990s to late 2010s, can barely afford to pay rent and food ...