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Competitive rivalry A lot of professionals in the venture capital and mid-cap private equity space seem to be bad-mouthing each other. I...

Accountants, investors, and many large corporates around the world use the discount rate as the go-to metric for pricing any asset that...

“We’re more threatened by people who want the same things as us than by those who don’t. Ask yourself, honestly: whom are you more...

On 24 June, Singapore Airlines completed the full redemption of all its outstanding MCB (mandatory convertible bonds) that had been...

Had catch-up drinks with a much older (more than 12 years) friend that I hadn't seen in nearly two years. Our common experience of having...

Words from a few folks which I had whiskey with today: A lot of investment firms out there have earned themselves a reputation for doing...

"This is the nature of capitalism, get over it." - Kevin O'Leary After nearly two decades of being in finance I still don't think I...

The study of capital markets has always been both intriguing and amusing to me. A lot of its theories are backed by mathematics and...

Eating hotpot is great even if you are doing it alone.

"Illiquidity Is The New Leverage And Flows Are More Important Than Fundamentals" - Eric Peters, CIO, One River Asset Management Tulip...

"Do you know how big is a billion? Just imagine every person tossing a coin at you at the same time." This was how one of my flatmates...

Curating and designing the short-term narrative towards a high value sometimes comes at a cost.

Risk management isn't sometimes about portfolio growth and diversification, but more about avoiding bad decisions with drastic outcomes.

Social media had only really started to take off some time in 2009. In the 2020 TV documentary The Social Dilemma, the show talks about...

When FTX imploded, some of the largest investors including OTPP and Temasek Holdings issued public statements to disclose their full...

“Soldiers all around the world behave in the same way once they put on their helmets and the uniform.”

More than ten years ago during my early banking days, I was chatting with a friend over lunch. At that point of time, I had just...

Whenever I approached the close of my financial modelling course, I always did a simple roll-call to call for feedback from everyone in...

If the Central Banks got it wrong on monetary policy, can we also assume that the valuation models that we have done and relied on for...

Bankers and financial professionals try to measure risk and returns using all kinds of academic and empirical bases - NPVs, IRRs,...