The booming stock market had lured a diverse set of people into believing that leveraged trading would lead to quick riches. Nutan Lugani, a former banker and financial counsellor, writes about the many lives that are shattered by the stock market crash

We call him our ‘Nano’ customer, since he is the youngest. All of 23, tall and smart, he breezed in wearing jeans and a T-shirt, reeking of...

This book is superbly timed. Is there anyone, anywhere, not worried about growth now? Robert Bloom is direct, simple and focused on results, combining his understanding of the power of classic ideas in marketing with experience which he explains lucidly in the context of the contemporary marketplace. Bloom’s paradigm is the celebration of the ‘uncommon offering’ at multiple customer touch...

Robert Hsu was born in China and raised in Southern California. He was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, became a millionaire at 29, and ‘retired’ at 30. He is now the president of a private-client money management firm called Absolute Return Capital Advisors, the publisher of two newsletters, China Strategy and Asia Edge. He claims to have a network of China-based analysts who keep him...