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Investing in companies such as Facebook before they went public has proven very lucrative for many well-connected investors – and Facebook’s decision to stay private for eight years before going public certainly worked out well for the social media giant. Bill Gurley, a general partner at venture capital firm Benchmark Capital, believes that early success stories such as Facebook and many other high-flying technology companies have made it fashionable for CEOs to resist public offerings....

No one is right all the time, but one can learn to be wrong less often. Watch Michael Mauboussin, Credit Suisse’s Head of Global Financial Strategies, explain how overcoming naïve realism and questioning the status quo can help leaders of all kinds make better choices. He discussed the above and more at the 2016 Thought Leader Forum.    

Nach zweijähriger Zusammenarbeit haben sich zwei Dutzend Finanzinstitute, angeführt von UBS, Credit Suisse und Julius Bär mit fundinfo auf die Veröffentlichung des openfunds-Standards auf www.openfunds.org geeinigt. Mit dem openfunds-Standard profitieren alle Stakeholder, da Fondsstammdaten effizienter, schneller und genauer übertragen werden. Die Non-Profit-Initiative definiert...

On June 8, the price of Brent crude ticked above $50 a barrel for the first time since August 2015. But the new $50-plus era came to an end two days later, amid a broader selloff that affected multiple asset classes. Energy analysts with Credit Suisse’s Global Markets team point out, however, that both supply (which is shrinking) and demand (which is growing steadily) point to firming oil prices ahead. Indeed, the bank’s analysts think that after two years of oversupply, the crude oil market...

Authored by Peter Cleppe, originally posted at Euro Insight, If Brexit marks the beginning of the end for the European project, Brussels will take its share of the blame If Britain leaves the EU and if the reaction to Brexit causes years of uncertainty, the EU will reap what it has sowed. British discontent is only a precursor to unrest on the Continent, where populists from across the political spectrum feel they...

Ever had to testify in a trial involving your father’s dealings in corrupt activities, and as a result had your tax records leaked for all of the public to see? Sergio Machado, the ex-head of Credit Suisse’s Brazil fixed-income business has, and now everyone knows how much he made in 2015. Sergio’s father, who goes by the same name, is a former Brazilian politician who went on to head the state run oil company...

Is the U.S. housing recovery still on firm footing? Your view on that will depend on which indicators you choose to believe. For the optimists: New home sales spiked 16.6 percent to 619,000 in April, the highest level recorded since early 2008, while the latest data from the Case-Shiller 20-City Composite Home Price Index shows that prices are 5.4 percent higher in the country’s major cities than they were a year ago. And for the pessimists: April housing starts, though up 6.6 percent...

Bild: Pixelio (Karl-Heinz Laube) Das Real Estate Investment Management der Credit Suisse prüft für das dritte Quartal 2016 die Durchführung einer Emission für den Immobilienfonds Credit Suisse Real Estate Fund Siat. Das Real Estate Investment Management der Credit Suisse plant, für den Credit Suisse Real Estate Fund Siat im dritten Quartal 2016 eine Emission durchzuführen....

The headline data out of China hasn’t exactly been comforting of late. The country is grappling with the challenges of slowing GDP growth, rising debt levels, and volatile stock markets, to name just a few. But if the macroeconomic statistics seem bleak, the picture is brighter among the country’s entrepreneurial class. The quality of Chinese innovation is increasing, the funding environment is improving, particularly for early-stage companies, and the Chinese government is doing everything...

Didi Chuxing is the most successful ride-sharing company in China and recently got a vote of confidence in the form of a $1 billion investment from Apple. Hear what Didi’s Vice President of Strategy Stephen Zhu had to say at the Credit Suisse 2016 Asian Investment Conference about the state of Chinese entrepreneurship, the uniqueness of the sharing economy in China, and the biggest challenges faced by Chinese startups.