The Business Times

Sebastien Canderle

Sewage treatment works, owned by Thames Water, in west London. In cases where debt-ridden companies provide vital services, governments usually have to step in, as the UK authorities are expected to do in a potential renationalisation of Thames Water.
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Distress investing: Crime scene investigation

The ultimate murder weapon is almost always leverage and financial sponsors the main culprits

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a Reliance Industries Limited sign board installed on a road divider in the western Indian city of Gandhinagar, January 17, 2014. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo
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Private capital: Lessons from the conglomerate era

GLOBAL private capital firms are charting a well-travelled course. With their sprawling empires, the largest alternative asset managers have adopted strategies that...

“Independent” central banks purchased government bonds to keep the economy afloat throughout the 2010s and resorted to even more unconventional monetary policies during the pandemic.
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Public debt: Four ways to deleverage

HOW does public debt influence an economy’s long-term potential? A decade ago, some economists claimed public debt in excess of 90 per...

To anyone with experience in the markets, many axioms of the efficient market hypothesis -- including perfect information, investor rationality -- are, at best, farfetched.
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Debunking the myth of market efficiency

SIXTY years after it was first formulated, the core tenet of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) – that stock prices fully reflect...

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