by Kabir Sehgal | Feb 3, 2016 | All, Op-Ed
I hate to admit it. But reading this column will make you stupider. No, it’s not that what I have to say is particularly obtuse. It’s that you’re reading this piece online, where you are presented a dizzying amount of options: click here, watch this, share that. These...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jan 28, 2016 | All, Op-Ed
The sun has already set on the British Empire. It may also be setting on the UK’s membership in the European Union. While global investors have been concerned about the economic slowdown in China and U.S. market volatility, there’s another looming issue: a...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jan 23, 2016 | All, Op-Ed
If the Talking Heads were to re-record their 1983 hit single, “Burning Down the House,” they would need to update the lyrics to “The house never burned down.” That’s because an increasing number of homeowners are getting smarter about...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jan 20, 2016 | All, Op-Ed
Peru may be at risk of being downgraded from an emerging market to a frontier market. In August 2015, Morgan Stanley Capital International, which manages these benchmarks, decided to wait and see whether Peru’s market condition improves. It had considered the...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jan 18, 2016 | All, Op-Ed
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t just a dreamer. He was a dream weaver. Certainly, he understood the power of rhetoric, and he possessed a commanding ability to inspire with his lofty orations. But in order to alchemize his vision of America, he had to think in terms...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jan 16, 2016 | All, Op-Ed
On January 7, on a brisk winter evening, a throng of the money-obsessed gathered at the Waldorf Astoria, on Park Avenue in New York. But unlike many meet-ups at this Manhattan moor, this occasion wasn’t marked by hedge fund managers, investment bankers, and corporate...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jan 5, 2016 | All, Op-Ed
Depending on where it was made, the shirt on your back should make the hair on your arm stand up. In 2013, when I was scouting for investment opportunities in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a violent political protest erupted that made international headlines. The same year,...
by Kabir Sehgal | Dec 31, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… On Dec. 16, two extraordinary things happened: “The Force” awakened and the Fed awakened. “Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens,” the first film of the series to be released in 10 years, opened...
by Kabir Sehgal | Dec 12, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
It’s more blessed to give than to receive. So said Jesus, the man whose birth we celebrate on Christmas by partaking in the ritual of gift exchange. It’s a custom that was even enacted at Jesus’ birth, when three wise men presented him and his parents gifts of gold,...
by Kabir Sehgal | Dec 7, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Every Wall Street banker knows that giving a gift can lead to a potentially lucrative relationship. It’s just how business operates on Wall Street: give a gift in hopes of a future payoff. But left unchecked, Wall Street’s vibrant gift economy can entrap even...
