Highlights: Tapping into the Bottled Water Industry

By James Cheung

The bottled water industry is an often overlooked investment opportunity. Over the past decade, companies have seen unprecedented sales growth at three times nominal U.S. GDP while maintaining profit…

The Role of Diversity Recruiting in Today’s Workplace

by Basak Sunar

Since the 1960s, diversity recruiting has been present in the business world. Generally aimed at the creation of equal work opportunities, diversity recruitment programs are focused on gender…

China’s Third Plenary 2013: Rigidity and Reform

by Abhinav Ranjan

For three decades, China has sustained double-digit economic growth through aggressive investments and heavy exportation. However, the world’s second largest economy grew 7.7% this past year, a small…

What Happened This Week: Week of October 27th to 31st, 2014

Equities:

• Visa’s (V, 2.02%) net income for its fiscal Q4 advanced 17% y-o-y to $1.4B or $2.18 per share versus estimates of $2.11 per share. Payments processed on the company’s system increased 11% to…

What Happened This Week: Week of November 17th to 21st, 2014

Equities:

• Target (TGT, 0.45%) reported a 3.1% jump in Q3 profit as sales rose 1.2%, better than the forecasted 1.0%. The retailer foresees a strong holiday season, estimating a 2% rise in Q4 sales.

What Happened This Week: Week of November 10th to 14th, 2014

Equities:

• Cisco Systems (CSCO, 2.49%) announced earnings that marginally beat forecasts. Cisco had revenues and earnings per share of $12.24B and $0.54, respectively. In particular, Cisco’s security…

Blog Launch & Article Series

As part of the blog’s launch this week, we will release a series of 10 articles over the coming weeks, written by our ILC Markets analysts. We are very excited about this pipeline of articles, which will cover a wide range of topics in business, finance, economics, and…

After the NPC 2014, What Should We Expect for the Chinese Economy This Year?

By Qi Zheng

The National People’s Congress 2014 (NPC 2014) was undoubtedly the biggest event of the year for the Chines economy. The NPC, although formally the highest…

Highlights: J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

by Daniel Kraft

J.P. Morgan held its 32nd annual Healthcare Conference last week in San Francisco (January 13–16, 2014) with over 300 attendees from the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical equipment sectors. As…

What Happened This Week: Week of January 27th to 31st, 2014