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SUPPORTING ENTREPRENEURS AND S.m.e.'s

Strategy and Management Consultants

SUPPORTING ENTREPRENEURS AND S.m.e.'s

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Investment

Top concerns of Asia- Pacific investors:

A survey  revealed their most prominent concern is how to manage current market volatility and geopolitical risks and how to better diversify their portfolio to mitigate these risks. About 68% of the investors in Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan and Australia have realigned their portfolios to better weather current market conditions. Many have also put money into “safer” assets like cash and gold. Some are investing in private assets including private equity, private debt, real estate and infrastructure investments, with those in S

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Investment

THG Shares Dip After SoftBank Investment Option Is Ditched

THG Plc shares fell after the British online shopping emporium said it had ended a deal with SoftBank Group Corp. due to “global macroeconomic conditions.” Speculation has been mounting for months that SoftBank, one of the world’s largest strategic investors, would not exercise the option. SoftBank had the right to exercise an option to buy a 20% stake in the UK company’s Ingenuity business, which helps third party businesses sell goods online. There has been no comments since as to why the contract between the two parties was terminated. ________________________________

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Property Consulting

Boris Johnson’s plan for 50-year mortgages is outright ‘risky’ and solely aimed at inflating the market:

The Prime Minister that he would be open to encouraging 50-year mortgages with debt potentially being transferred to the next generation are “unhelpful and fail to address the significant, long-term issues in the housing market." New plans would allow family homes and their mortgages to be inherited. The comments suggest that the Prime Minister may be aimed at encouraging greater home ownership but instead have the potential to encourage a short-term boom in the housing market followed by a long-term bust. _______________________ How would you handle the current market

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Investment

Finra achieves blockbuster financial year in 2021:

The broker-dealer self-regulator's net income of $218 million was $199 million higher than in 2020, thanks to significant increases in trading fees, investment gains and fines. Operating revenue increased 17.7% in 2021 to $1.3 billion, compared to $1.1 billion in 2020, thanks in part to gyrating markets that produced a 15% increase in trading activity fees, which reached their highest level in more than a decade. Increased market volumes also led to a 10-year high in fixed-income and equity securities trade reporting, and Finra achieved an 84% increase in corporate financi

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Investment

People back green investment despite soaring bills

  The Cooperative Bank have noticed that those earning between £20,000 and £25,000 are more likely than average to support investment in green energy even if it adds to the cost of household bills, a new survey has suggested. 63% of those in the earnings bracket think that it is still important to tackle climate change through such measures, even in the face of a cost-of-living crisis. It is clear that climate change is a major concern for UK consumers and a concern that the bank shares. Climate change was the most urgent social and environmental issue for consumers in th

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Investment

Investment Opportunities during geopolitical ‘turmoil’

A big rule which has been employed for making good investments is being able to be flexible. This can apply in many different scenarios both using a micro and a macro view of an entire region. When geopolitical turmoil affects a country, their currency will depreciate and their imports or exports will be impacted. Commodities like precious metals can be traded via a variety of online platforms, along with spot over-the-counter (OTC) markets, listed exchanges and options. A useful analogy is to consider a country and currency like a large company, and a company’s stock like

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Investment

Bitcoin investment simulator!

Workers will soon be able to put some of their retirement savings in bitcoin, but the crypto crash has made it clear what a risky bet it is. The currency has lost more than 50 percent of its value from November to May. So while those who invested in bitcoin even two years ago may have seen big returns, any investor jumping in now could be in for losses. You can use the NBC news simulator whereby you’ll have $10,000 to play with, and you can put up to $2,000 in bitcoin. Pick any start date in the past 18 months — or use our presets — and see which would have been the better

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Investment

Waitlist for the NHS growing despite investment!

Sajid Javid confirms that the waitlist for NHS will continue to grow as healthcare in the UK is struggling to cope with the post pandemic surge in demand. This confirmation has been made despite the significant Government investment. The NHS was still struggling to address the waitlists that had been exacerbated by a pandemic which forced thousands of treatments across the UK to be blocked. He had previously outlined a plan to implement a series of “community diagnostic centres” to ease the burden of tests and treatments taking place within hospitals.Despite current pressu

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Investment

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund Acquires 5% Stake In Nintendo:

This now known to be Saudi Arabia's public investment fund's [PIF] biggest investments to date. PIF has acquired a 5.01% stake in Nintendo, stating that the move is for investment purposes. That stake makes it the fifth biggest shareholder of Nintendo. Saudi Arabia's PIF has been particularly active this year; in February it spent around $1 billion on stakes across two businesses. The bigger chunk was spent on 5% of Nexon, a Korean firm with hugely successful online games.  Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund also has high profile stakes in Activision Blizzard (pending t

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Property Consulting

What is a property developer’s major weapon?

A step up from regenerating houses or pre-existing live - in properties is when  you take a commercial building and convert it into residential. You create more homes than with a flip, but the fundamental principles are the same. The average flip produces profits of just under £50k, whereas a small conversion project is likely to net you between £150k and £500k, depending on its size and location. The budget for commercial flips will also be ten times the size. You can afford to hire a main contractor to take care of the construction rather than a jobbing builder. The 3 b

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