Analyst Forecasts: How to Read Between the Lines
By Shellie Karabell, Editor-in-Chief

Accurate financial information is critical to investors. But is consistency more important than accuracy? And what’s the trade-off for investors?

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SMEs Embrace the Bond Markets

In these days of tight money and tough credit, smaller businesses are looking to the corporate bond market for financing. The risks are high but so are the returns.

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Roland Berger: Rating Europe

The founder of one of the world’s top consultancies reflects on German unification, the European economy and the need for a European rating agency.

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  • Banking on Russia’s future

    ‘Russian management’ may seem like a conflict in terms to some cynics in the business world, but a new programme for the region’s largest bank created by INSEAD and the Moscow-based New Economic School is changing all that.

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  • What’s wrong with banking regulation today?

    Indebtedness is both a consumer and a financial industry problem. Regulatory bodies think more banking regulations will fix the problem. INSEAD Professor of Banking and Finance Jean Dermine is not so sure.

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  • The Russians are coming!

    Sberbank has been the bank of babushkas since the day of the Tsars. Now it has its sights on a much bigger market.

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  • EasyCredit: Bucking the tight money trend

    In these days of tight credit and stiff regulations, one young German bank is trying a new approach to customer service, and winning awards for its efforts. But can it really make money?

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  • Islamic banking comes out of its niche

    The global economic crisis has meant lower interest rates, higher risk, and an investor flight to safety. Can Islamic banking pick up the slack?

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  • Fanning the financial crisis: Has regulation gone wrong?

    Far from being the classic “risk management tool”, government bonds today are beginning to look like toxic assets. And bailing out the governments issuing these bonds is tantamount to bailing out the banks… yet again. So hypothesises INSEAD...

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  • Building an Asian bank

    With most economic indicators and forecasts signalling the Asian century, Singapore-based DBS Bank plans to step up its game by playing to the region’s surging megatrends and relying on its greatest asset – a reliable home-grown brand.

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