Technology & Social Media Archive

Although active asset management has existed for centuries, the modern variation has grown increasingly complex. As a rough guide, it is useful to break active investors into broad categories of fundamental investors, quantitative (or systematic) investors and ‘quantamental’ investors. Fundamental investors rely primarily on traditional subjective research scrutinizing both standard financial metrics and increasingly using factor models to deter...

Sir Noel Mobbs, born in 1878 and one of the original founders of Slough Trading Estates, is talking you through 100 years of the company now known as SEGRO. Before your eyes a 1930s car factory transforms into one that produces jam, and a full-sized train steams past to collect goods before you’re treated to a Thunderbird 2 flyby. You’re taken from the past to the present and into SEGRO’s vision of the future, too. You end your tour in a room where you can handle obj...

It’s been a roller-coaster year for Airbnb and its much-anticipated plans for an IPO. The home-sharing platform had planned to file to go public back in March but then coronavirus hit and its revenue nose-dived. Now, it looks like plans are back on track. Airbnb confidentially filed its IPO paperwork with the SEC ...

Each Thursday at 11.00 am you can find up to 40 IR professionals logged into the IR coffee breaks meeting set up by Marina Calero, director at London and Dublin-headquartered Powerscourt, discussing everything from which virtual AGM providers have worked well to when might be a good time to restart the dividend. Calero is a natural networker and had previously run a number of breakfast meetings, where topics included Mifid II and AGM prep. But that was in a pre-...