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SINGAPORE (July 1): Owing to the inadequacy of the social safety net in the US and other developed countries, proposals for a universal basic income (UBI) are gaining in popularity. The gap between the rich and everyone else has expanded significantly in

SINGAPORE (July 1): At a meeting last week of Alphabet stockholders, a man lobbed a simple query at the company’s chairman: Where is the CEO?

SINGAPORE (June 24): As an investor, I tend to look at corporate deals from the perspective of what it immediately means for a company’s shares. So, when CapitaLand announced its acquisition of Ascendas-Singbridge from Temasek Holdings in January, the a

SINGAPORE (June 24): If you thought trade wars and the epic struggle for power between the US and China were bad, here is something that could be even worse.

SINGAPORE (June 24): Facebook has just unveiled its latest bid for world domination: Libra, a cryptocurrency designed to function as private money anywhere on the planet. In preparing the venture, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been in negotiations with

SINGAPORE (June 24): As an investor, I tend to look at corporate deals from the perspective of what it immediately means for a company’s shares. So, when CapitaLand announced its acquisition of Ascendas-Singbridge from Temasek Holdings in January, the a

SINGAPORE (June 24): If you thought trade wars and the epic struggle for power between the US and China were bad, here is something that could be even worse.

SINGAPORE (June 17): A reader of The Edge Singapore who owns shares in Challenger Technologies asked me last week if I was going to write anything more about the company’s proposal to delist from the Singapore Exchange. I didn’t think I was. But after

SINGAPORE (June 17): The world has been riveted by the protests raging in Hong Kong against the city government’s proposed law to allow the extradition of criminal suspects to mainland China. About one million people — roughly one-seventh of the forme

SINGAPORE (June 17): With the rise and rise of new sustainable funds, the question of how to avoid greenwashing becomes more prevalent. Sustainable responsible investing (SRI) labels are popping up and the European Union is in the process of defining an e