The future of work for bankers, post pandemic

AFTER a year of remote working and curbs on business travel, the pandemic may have forever changed how bankers work. Finance professionals, especially those in corporate, wealth and investment banking accustomed to hopping on a plane, worked tethered to their homes and video calls. While technology has greatly enabled most functions, could the pandemic way of working reshape workforce planning, office space and organisational culture for banks? We find out in Brunch, this Saturday in The Business Times Weekend.

Online trading platform Saxo Bank was a fintech way before the term was coined. Founder and CEO Kim Fournais tells The Raffles Conversation about his mission to make investing accessible to all.

In the late stages of a bull market, it seems like everyone is making money hand over fist with little effort, greed takes over, and over-leveraged and outright investment scams become prevalent. In This Time Is Different, our columnist reminds us: Do not expect your banker, or the person at the dinner table recommending an investment to you, to do the due diligence that you should be doing.

Blown away by the mythic outperformance of private equity investments? Sorry to burst your bubble. In the Wealth & Investing section, a venture capital adviser unpicks some private equity fables, starting with the idea that performance reporting is reliable. Now who would have thought that, in an industry both enshrined in secrecy and under-regulated...

In Fine Print, our reviewer finds sharp truths in the well-researched and thoroughly readable new publication, Has Asia Lost It? Still on books, Barfly goes on a literary bender at Writers Bar in the storied Raffles Hotel.

And if you see, on the road, a stunningly sleek headturner of a car that looks like it just drove out of Downtown Abbey, it's most likely a Morgan. The boutique British carmaker's BMW-powered Plus Six has landed. Should car aficionados go against the grain and embrace these magnificent machines? The Steering Column considers.

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