Stuart Kirk

The IMF’s report, which comes out twice a year, is in the writer's opinion the best when it comes to explaining the interplay between economics and finance.

Why I love the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report

It’s the best publication for investors – but the latest issue makes spooky reading

Shareholders should be able to directly pick their CEO.

It’s time to let shareholders choose the CEO

Companies should ditch the age-old parliamentary system in favour of direct votes

In strategist reports, causation is often claimed when the two numbers are merely correlated – if even that.
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Relative measures can be absolutely wrong

Comparing one data point with another can be misleading, nonsensical or even dangerous

If a miner of coal is unsustainable, then so is the truck company hauling the stuff. And why not its tyre supplier or the rubber maker?
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Rebranding ESG won’t save it from internal contradictions

The environmental, social and governance framework for investing is riven with inconsistencies