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Eating fat can make you fat, right? The Credit Suisse Research Institute synthesized a significant body of evidence that suggests just the opposite – that certain fats may actually be good for us. But if fat isn’t the reason for the rise in obesity and metabolic syndrome—a constellation of factors that increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes—what is? And which kinds of fats are the healthiest? Watch the video to find what the scientific data really say about fat...

Need a loan? You can always go to a bank. Or you can try to borrow from your peers. Increasingly popular “peer-to-peer lending portals” allow borrowers and lenders to connect directly through online marketplaces, threatening to disintermediate traditional financial institutions in the process. But how do peer-to-peer sites assess the risk involved in the loans they make? What role will regulation play in their future? Will institutional investors get on board? Industry experts discussed these...

At the beginning of 2014, there were 43 known “unicorns” worldwide — private companies valued at $1 billion or more. As of November 2015, that number had nearly tripled to 132. The rapid growth in the number of well-funded, late-stage private companies raises several important questions: If companies can raise so much money without tapping capital markets, why do they even need to go public? More importantly, are valuations getting so lofty that they warrant concern? Jim Breyer, founder...

Watch Barbara Reinhard, Americas Chief Investment Officer of Credit Suisse’s Private Banking and Wealth Management division, discuss ideas on how to manage your portfolio in times of volatility.