by Kabir Sehgal | Dec 4, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
For emerging market equity investors (and Mets fans), there is always next year. Emerging market investors like to invest in countries with accelerating economies and buy stocks with growing earnings-per-share. But this year hasn’t afforded them many...
by Kabir Sehgal | Nov 18, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Recently, I spent three mind-bending days (and party-filled nights) at “Summit at Sea,” a conference of a couple thousand entrepreneurs and game-changers on a charter cruise from Miami to the Bahamas. The conference, organized by Summit Series, included...
by Kabir Sehgal | Nov 17, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
On Nov. 22, Argentines will go to the polls to elect a new president. It’s a watershed moment for the country, as the late Néstor Kirchner and then his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, have held the president’s office for 12 years — long and...
by Kabir Sehgal | Nov 10, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Two fictitious Chinese brothers are born in Tuanjiehu Maternity Hospital in the Chinese capital of Beijing. Let’s say the first was born already, in late 2015; his parents nickname him Laoda, meaning “oldest child.” That’s because they have hopes for a second, who it...
by Kabir Sehgal | Nov 10, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
If you want to buy a stock, there’s an app for that. But there should also be a list for it: a catalog of investment criteria that you check before you decide to buy or sell. In her professional and personal inquiry into the value and importance of...
by Kabir Sehgal | Nov 9, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
The United States isn’t the only country having a presidential election next year. In April 2016, Peruvians will vote for a new president — and probably again on June 12, 2016, the date of the runoff election. The current president, Ollanta Humala, was...
by Kabir Sehgal | Nov 2, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
If you want to make a dollar, it helps to give a dollar…and another and another. On this, the third anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, a new study suggests that companies that make onetime donations to relief efforts should continue their philanthropic activities in the...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 31, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
It’s not a compliment when a president’s economic record is compared to that of Jimmy Carter’s, who held office during a troubled economy. Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have bemoaned President Barack Obama’s slow growth economy as...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 29, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Welcome to the year 1971. The twenty-sixth amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, which lowered the voting age to 18 from 21. The NASDAQ Exchange was opened. Some of the top songs on the Billboard 100 were the Bee Gees’ “How You Can Mend a Broken...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 29, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Ohio Governor John Kasich is standing up for his “realistic” tax plan and speaking out about the “fantasy” plans of his rivals. During the GOP debate at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Ohio Governor John Kasich wasted no time criticizing...
