Imperial hangover and populism: will the Jubilee remind Britons what a leader should stand for?
Recently it dawned on me that, after six years of stale rhetoric and nationalist statements, the latest backward threat coming at us from...
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We shall never cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know that place for the first time.
(T. S. Eliot)
Welcome to The Kuros Blog - My name is Tancredi Cordero, I am an entrepreneur, financier and published author.
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Re_start - will 2021 be like 1921 or 1963?
The typically short lived memory of the past has been giving a lot of solace to many in 2020 – as it has over the past decade. Yes, when...
Through the Matrix, into a Brave New World: the dark side of social media companies.
Morpheus's words to Neo: "You take the blue pill, and the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe....
Investing in the NASDAQ 100: A Responsible Investment Perspective
This article was written by Christian Porter, Associate at Kuros Associates. Responsible investing continues to gain momentum. According...
Farewell to the mountains: in the time of covid-19 and Brexit the letter of an Italian in London.
There is a famous piece of Italian literature, within a passage from Alessandro Manzoni's novel "I Promessi Sposi" (in English, The...
A financial feel-good-factor: the current state of ESG & Sustainability
This article was written by Ebru Smith, Founder & CEO of Ebru Smith Consultancy Limited, Associate Editor of Investment Week, and...
Profits for a better world: the call for Impact Investment Banks.
One of my all-time favourite singer-songwriters is undoubtedly Bruce Springsteen. The way he manages to shine a light on the lives of...
Climbing the pyramid: how inequalities and lack of competition are spreading around the world.
"For the loser now will be later to win, for the times they are a-changing" sang Bob Dylan from the lyrics of his immortal 1964 song and...
Money is good: the intuition marking the upward surge of mankind.
The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but only transformed. On another front, the main...
Diversification vs. Concertation: central banks and the reshaped architecture of financial markets.
For centuries, explorations through the seas opened new geographic horizons and commercial routes that helped humankind to grow and...
California Dreaming: from Silicon Valley to Silicon Beach, beyond and back.
“California dreaming, on such a winter day” did the Beach Boys sing some 60 years ago and that line is quite evocative for a running joke...
Is consumer consensus the new value investing?
Warren Buffet once said: “Price is what you pay, value is what you get” and it’s rather puzzling to notice how today this wise advice...
A brief history of Trust, its decadence and the blossoming of family offices.
An introduction to this contemporary trend may root back into the centuries. As for the dawn of the banking system, it all started with...
Status vs ethos: why working in the financial industry today?
The 80s came with a roaring sound. After the oil crisis, the civil wars, the assassinations, the kidnaps alongside the heroin epidemic of...
