As the global economy continues its recovery, Credit Suisse's top investment ideas focus on carefully selected themes which aim to help you generate more bang for your buck in 2014. Head of Research for Private Banking & Wealth Management, Giles Keating, explains the rationale behind the ideas and investment implications. (6:21)
Forbes counts down the top ten most promising American companies on this year's list, including Hire Vue, yodle, AnchorFree, UTest, SmashBurger, LendingClub, Evolent Health, Suja, Airpush and Fuhu. (5:11)
CEO John Noseworthy says that Mayo Clinic's model is not only sustainable and efficient but scalable, which is why patients from 135 different countries visit Mayo Clinic every year. (1:42)
Bloomberg senior West Coast correspondent Jon Erlichman reports that GoPro has filed for an IPO initiated by a "confidential" draft registration statement. GoPro is a brand of high-definition personal cameras, often used in extreme action video photography. (1:28)
Many companies are hopping on the Big Data bandwagon without fully understanding what they're getting into. University of Texas researchers Michael Hasler and Niall Gaffney say these businesses should recognize the importance of collecting the right data, organizing it effectively, and using it to make good decisions. (44:58)
This Opalesque.TV interview profiles the launch of Swan Reinsurance, and why a reinsurance company can create higher ROE's in a tax efficient manner by investing the equity invested plus the additional premium dollars charged for reinsurance in Swan's Defined Risk Strategy. Although reinsurance is considered risky by some managers and investors, Swan Reinsurance can limit liability by not only utilizing its proven Defined Risk downside protection strategy, but by defining contractual limits for the insurance business the firm is underwriting. (13:30)
Big Bang Disruption collapses Everett Rogers' classic bell curve of five distinct customer segments into only two groups -- trial users and everybody else. Paul F. Nunes, managing director of research for the Accenture Institute for High Performance in Boston, discusses concepts from the book he has co-authored with Larry Downes, a fellow with the Accenture Institute for High Performance, is based in Silicon Valley. (2:10)
