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Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) grew by 18% in 2007, with a global share of 36% and early projections suggest SWFs could grow to $5 trillion by 2010. In 2007, SWFs invested $49 billion in M&A deals, which is an increase of 165%. Russia, Asia and the Middle East has played a key role in bailing out...

Government band-aids can only cover injuries that a true free market can heal.

"Innovate or die" is a common phrase tossed around IT Departments as they determine how to allocate their budget dollars towards data security, regulatory compliance, customer centric projects and front-office applications. Core banking systems are running 24/7 to support internet banking, global operations...

Banks boosted revenues by charging over $36 billion in ATM and Overdraft fees in 2007. Banks and credit unions are netting a stream of fee revenue from ATM and debit transactions in ATM and overdraft fees as consumers continue to pay steeper penalties and fees for not having sufficient funds in their...

With ever rising commodity costs food companies that have hedged their key commodity purchases with forward buying have done quite well over the last year.Several key manufacturers have announced that they have hedged their raw materials by forward buying 60-70% of their 2008 needs.Lost in the...

In this soft-market, Insurance profit centers must add as many new clients as is possible, but must adhere to strong fiscal discipline at the same time.

Dow Transports were up late last week, but the future for brokers & independents may place a damper on the market this summer.  Many experts expect truckload capacity to tighten this summer.

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Bebo and many others that create platforms for free speech and the free distribution of content from anyone and everyone will limit new growth opportunities if they do not reconcile with the concept of "rights" within the borders...

Compliance proceedures resulting from overwhelming government regulation of the insurance industry has produced an expense at agency level greater than that of policy acquisition.

The rates and availability of insurance policies are issues difficult enough. "Credit scoring"adds to the difficulty.