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Credit Suisse is the Lead Partner of the 2016 Musicus Fest, organized by Trey Lee’s Musicus Society, which continues to expand Hong Kong’s musical landscape while exploring the city’s unique heritage and nurturing its emerging talents.

“Hong Kong isn’t really known for technology or entrepreneurism; we hope GoGoVan is changing that,” says Steven Lam. The “Leave Your Mark” series, presented by Credit Suisse, connects and engages like-minded individuals who are dedicated to driving positive social impact and transformation with passion, business savvy, and courage. Although these individuals come from a variety of backgrounds, they all share the same uncommon virtue of an impatience to make change happen. Their brilliance,...

Ursula Nötzli Breinlinger: The topic of sustainability is very much in vogue. What should investors understand by the term "sustainable investing"? Béatrice Fischer: The aim of sustainable investing is to combine financial returns with positive repercussions for the environment and society. The investor strives to build up a comprehensive view that also includes non-financial factors. In investment decisions, the investor also takes into account sustainability aspects, i.e....

The last few years haven’t done wonders for the reputation of the pharmaceutical industry. In 2015, Turing Pharmaceuticals faced public outrage after hiking the price of Daraprim, a drug used to treat the parasitic disease toxoplasmosis in vulnerable populations such as pregnant women and AIDS patients, by more than 5,000 percent. This year, Mylan is embroiled in an ongoing controversy after the price of its emergency allergy treatment EpiPen increased sixfold in under a decade. Meanwhile,...

Activist investors have been living up to their name in recent years, waging campaigns against an increasingly diverse array of companies of all shapes and sizes. The number of activist campaigns more than quadrupled from 104 in 2000 to 487 in 2015 and, according to the Financial Times, more than 40 percent of the 500 largest public companies in the United States attracted activist attention between 2009 and 2015. Assets under activist management have been growing at nearly 20 percent a year...

When it comes to professional advancement, women can be their own worst enemy, right? That’s pretty much an accepted fact at this point. But is it true? For years, feminists and workplace diversity proponents have grappled with the suggestion that high-ranking women actively limit the advancement of their female subordinates, a phenomenon known as Queen Bee syndrome. Female executives, the thinking goes, believe that there is limited room for women at the top, so preventing others from...

In the years before the 2008 financial crisis, investors flocked to equities in fast-growing emerging economies. But when the crisis put the brakes on global growth, that attraction to emerging markets proved a fickle one, and investors sought safe haven in less risky investments. In late 2016, however, the pendulum is swinging back again, with investors citing several reasons for renewed confidence in emerging market equities. Among the most surprising? Their politics are relatively more...

"As time is not on my side, I have always seized every opportunity to serve. I want to do things promptly as I am afraid that someday I may regret. I do not want to waste my time, as I do not know if I still have a chance to get involved and make a change for the better,” says Chan. The “Leave Your Mark” series, presented by Credit Suisse, connects and engages likeminded individuals who are dedicated to driving positive social impact and transformation with passion, business savvy, and...

CIO IWM, Michael O’Sullivan, analysis on the latest FED move.

Mr. Abele, few industries today operate to such a degree at the juncture between analog and digital as the financial sector. On one hand, digitalization has caught up to the banks, while on the other hand, the financial business functions through personal relationships, discretion and tailored consultation. How can you resolve this conflict? That's the wrong question, in my view. Digital and analog are not binaries, but are more along the lines of the synergy equation: 1+1=3. New...