Three ways to buy an established online business

By: Doug Winter August 14, 2017 Source: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/295829 This year will be known as the year enterprises became artificially intelligent. Research by Gartner suggests that interest in new big data investments has peaked. The question has changed from “how do we get data?” to “what do we do with it?” Forrester found that enterprises plan on increasing investment in artificial […]
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Are women paid less than men for the same work?

By:The Data Team August 01, 2017 Source: https://www.economist.com  

If you’re addicted to your phone, you might be one of these personality types

By: James A. Roberts  August 08, 2017 Source: https://www.weforum.org

New books in the Information Centre

New books recently added to the Information Centre’s collection.  

Seven tips to clinch that promotion at work

By: Avery Blank June 09, 2017 Source: https://www.weforum.org   Are you up for a promotion, and it’s a crowded field? In situations where there are many people vying for that one opportunity, the human instinct is to see it as a competition, the survival of the fittest. It’s not. It is not about competition. Don’t […]
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One of our best 2016 theses was on hedge fund replicators in South Africa by David Boers

By: Boers, David Source: http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/59809 Abstract: The purpose of this paper was to explore the passive replication of hedge fund returns as an alternative means of investment. Current popular techniques have generally shown poor out-of-sample performance. This research aimed at creating an equity factor model through the use of the “style engine” created in Muller and […]
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New book on referencing and plagiarism available in the Information Centre

Another one of our best theses for 2016 was investment strategies for OECD and BRICS currencies

By: Blomeyer, Gregg Source: http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/59882 Abstract: In this paper a graphical time-series approach was used to analyse style-based investment strategies for currencies. The styles investigated included momentum, volatility and value, and particular focus was given to understanding whether differences exist in the results between the currencies of developed versus emerging countries. The results showed that differences between […]
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Add up the populations of the US, Brazil and Russia. That’s how many children live in poverty

By: Felipe Roa-Clavijo July  10, 2017 Source: https://www.weforum.org