How to Navigate the Current Market
How to Navigate the Current Market CEO Christina Laemmel’s Addendum to the CIO’s Commentary We at LaIF believe, as communicated, that the markets need to experience another correction before a sustainable recovery will take hold. First of all, there are too many...
Discouraged Workers, High Personal and Corporate Indebtedness, Deflation
Discouraged Workers, High Personal and Corporate Indebtedness, Deflation: it’s gotta get worse, before it gets betterMarkets partially recovered after the March fall and the Nasdaq index even entered positive territory since the beginning of the year. However, if you...
Market Commentary by Rinat Khasanov, Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer
Market Commentary by Rinat Khasanov, Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer While we expected a market correction (as stated in the last update), we could not have foreseen the trigger to be the Corona Virus. The slowdown in the global economy - which in fact...
It is up to us to Bridge the Gap
We are the ones who need to START learning, participating, and partaking in their world; first and foremost because it is our world, too. The problem and hence the solution – lies squarely with the older generation. We must overcome our fearful resistance to change. We must get curious again.
Art as Fitness and Fitness as Art
Some of my favorite creative outlets are also sport arts. Dance is clearly both – but gardening and drumming are also where the two concepts meet. I believe every art form can also be a physical activity and vice versa. And it’s a great idea to find inspiration in...
Why it takes a village
As the familiar proverb goes, “it takes a village to raise a child”. Its meaning is interpreted to mean many things. I like its literal connotation: It takes more than a parent’s love to raise a child well. It takes the love and support of a community. I...
Ethical Investing
33 years ago, I worked at the United Nations as a Public Information Assistant in New York City. It was a logical step after university, where I had majored in International Politics and Foreign Languages. It was an amazing experience. But then, weighed...