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DURHAM, N.C. - Most of the revenues extracted from use of the world s oceans is concentrated among 100 transnational corporations, which have been identified for the first time by researchers at Duke University and the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University.
Dubbed the Ocean 100, these ocean economy companies collectively generated $1.1 trillion in revenues in 2018, according to research published Wednesday in the journal
Science Advances. If the group were a country, it would have the world s 16th-largest economy, roughly equivalent to the gross domestic product (GDP) of Mexico. Now that we know who some of the biggest beneficiaries from the ocean economy are, this can help improve transparency relating to sustainability and ocean stewardship, said lead author John Virdin, director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Program at Duke s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. The small number of companies that dominate these industries li
Op-Ed: Innovation Is Dead in Asset Management Boutique and mid-sized asset managers can revive it by developing the niche strategies most in demand from advisors and their clients.
Andrew Corn | Dec 24, 2020
Have big asset managers strangled innovation in our industry? In late November, Graham Steele of the Stanford Business School wrote a paper demonstrating the monolithic dominance of the three largest asset managers BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street who together controlled more than 80% of all investor money during the last decade. The same three firms manage between 73% and 80% of all exchange-traded funds.
Steele argued that the big players have established a monopoly position that stifles innovation and that they ought to be broken up. Yet these three firms provide a real value to the market, offering the low-cost, scalable passive products that have become the backbone of global asset management. Their rise has come at a time when asset managers have largely abd
DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) A Duke student started a brand new business during the COVID-19 pandemic after listening to a seminar from one of his professors. Did I think I would be starting a business at the start of second year? Yahya Remtulla asked rhetorically. No.
Remtulla is pursuing a master s in business at Duke. But before finishing his studies, he s launched a brand new business. There s so much uncertainty in every aspect of a business during COVID-19, he said outside Duke s Fuqua School of Business.
Back in October, ABC11 introduced you to Jamie Jones, a professor at Duke. She said new businesses are often born from tough economic times something she called the Great Resets.