Welcome to the July edition of the Long Finance newsletter. Since our last edition in May, a lot has happened with Long Finance and its programmes including:
The interim figures of the Global Financial Centres Index – GFCI 13.5– were released in July 2013
A new research project titled “How to Make Standards Markets Work for Financial Services (Regulation)?” kicked off earlier this month with support from BSI and CISI. A first workshop took place on 10 July to discuss how standards markets could further improve financial services regulation. More information is available here
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Best wishes,
The Long Finance Team
What’s New
Financial Centre Futures
The interim figures of the Global Financial Centres Index – GFCI 13.5 – were released in July 2013 and we are happy to announce that GFCI 14 will be released in late September 2013. The GFCI provides profiles, ratings and rankings for 79 financial centres drawing on instrumental factors and responses to an online survey. For more information:
Read the latest edition of the GFCI – GFCI 13 – which was published in March
We are delighted to announce that Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP has joined the London Accord as a contributor. Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP’s most recent report Resilient Cities: the Key to the Future, specifically in regard to financing tomorrow’s cities, is now available on the London Accord.
Nearly 400 reports on finance, cities and environmental, social & governance (ESG) issues are freely accessible on the London Accord, kindly shared by 59 contributing organisations. If you would like to contribute any reports on finance and ESG issues to the London Accord, please contact us.
Upcoming Events
The Currency of Management: What Managing Money Teaches Us About Managing People
When
Thursday 26 September 2013, 18:00 to 19:00
Who
Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli
What
Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli will explore the implicit ‘currencies’ behind managing real people. In this lecture, he will suggest that we can learn about managing people, from risk assessment to good governance, by looking at what we know about how to best manage money.
Where
Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH
For more information and to book your place, please visit the Long Finance website.
Stochastic Market Efficiency
When
Wednesday 2 October 2013, 08:30 to 10:00
Who
Alex Adamou (London Mathematical Laboratory)
What
Long Finance welcomes Mr Alex Adamou from the London Mathematical Laboratory to elaborate on exactly how – and why – it is impossible to ‘beat the market’ over the long term by borrowing to invest. This seminar will look at stock market data from the past 60 years to provide strong confirmation of the stochastic market efficiency hypothesis.
Where
Z/Yen Group, 90 Basinghall Street, London EC2V 5AY
For more information and to book your place, please visit the Long Finance website.
The UK’s National Debt: Lessons From History for a Forgetful Government Today
“Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis, and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.” (John Meynard Keynes) Write for today and not for tomorrow.
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