Poland’s presidential elections will pit Warsaw’s liberal mayor as the candidate of Donald Tusk’s ruling party against a historian chosen on Sunday by the right-wing opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party.The outcome of next May’s vote could unlock Prime Minister Tusk’s reform agenda, which has been stalled by outgoing rightwing…

I’ve been in the financial advisory business for roughly 28 years—and for 28 of those years, I’ve had a challenging relationship with the notion of “business development”—or the shadier moniker by which it is also known, “sales.” This has been such a tenuous relationship because many of us in the…

This article was written byFollowThe author has an honours degree in economics and politics with a focus on economic development. With 36 years of experience in executive management he has extensive knowledge of insurance/reinsurance, Global and Asia Pacific markets, climate change and ESG. He invests in his personal capacity.Analyst’s Disclosure:…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Countries at the United Nations climate summit in Baku struck a final deal on the broad rules to launch carbon trading markets, almost a decade after being first proposed.The agreement passed at…

Congress and the IRS made inheriting an IRA a very complicated, confusing event. Inherited IRAs are accompanied by a host of little-known rules that are traps for the unwary, and that’s before considering the end of the Stretch IRA and the creation of the 10-year rule that were enacted in…

This article was written byFollowAaron Chow, aka Elephant Analytics has 15+ years of analytical experience and is a top rated analyst on TipRanks. Aaron previously co-founded a mobile gaming company (Absolute Games) that was acquired by PENN Entertainment. He used his analytical and modeling skills to design the in-game economic…

Donald Trump has picked Scott Bessent to be his US Treasury secretary, nominating one of his biggest financial backers as the top economic official of his second administration.Bessent will be responsible for overseeing the president-elect’s most prominent economic pledges, including sweeping tax cuts, while maintaining the stability of the world’s…

If you’ve never encountered the term “decumulation,” you’re probably asking, “Decumu-what???” For most of your investing life, you’ve been focused on accumulation investing, building wealth over time by maximizing your investment returns for a given level of risk. You’ve had the luxury of longer time horizons and the ability to…

Mortgage rates climbed closer to 7% this week while sales of existing homes saw a revival from a dip in rates two months ago. Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed that the average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rose to 6.84% from last week’s reading…

With President-elect Trump set to return to the White House in January, the sun appears to be setting on the Biden administration’s student loan handout spree.  But one moderate New York Republican still thinks Congress should act to ease the debt burden carried by borrowers. Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., introduced…