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We are living in times of change and the winds of change are clearly blowing. And we have to decide, do we want to build walls or windmills? Karen Wendt on digitization, digital assets, blockchain and tokenization. Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity appear to be the new normal in our lives. The American military calls […]

Karen Wendt was invited as guest speaker and interview partner to do a reality check of the SkySeries Devils telling a financial thriller based on the novel  Il Diaboli.

Growth and Value investing are the two major ways investors approach stock investing. While some make use of one of them, others use both, and when two methods are aimed at achieving the same goal, debates and comparisons are bound to arise. Growth investing or value investing; is one better than the other? Can you […]

In a digital world, the key to survival is not profitability but market power. Alternative Investments Performance Measurement & Evaluation The luster of the public markets has waned over the last 20 years to the benefit of private capital. Fewer companies are listed on US stock exchanges today than at the turn of the millennium. […]

The EU Commission has initiated the process to reform the Non-Financial Reporting Directive and announced plans to create EU standards for corporate sustainability reporting. For this purpose, a public consultation has been opened by regulators to gather input from all stakeholders which ended on June 11 2020. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) also […]

Authored by Karen Wendt Sustainable Finance Investors are reviewing their asset allocations and mandates over the coming months as a consequence of market adaptation caused by the Red Swan called COVID-19.  We expect investors to embrace invention, in the form of climate and sustainability-tilted smart beta strategies, referred to as Smart Sustainability. In this vein […]