With the rise of scrutiny over financial advice and the perpetual problem of the blame-game, the importance of having the appropriate insurance in place for your (FO) business has never been higher.
In the early part of the last century Africa was a staple part of British and European portfolios. With the rise of the BRIC economies and the emerging markets of the Far east, africa has been ignored and forgotten.
Is the answer to the world’s economic woes to give money away to organisations that support worthy causes, or does it contribute more to the social and economic development of the economy to retain the resources in businesses to invest in their on-going growth?
As a small boy growing up in the North of England, the thing to have was an electric train set. It was the early 1960s and the steam train, the most usual form of long distance travel in the previous decade, was already a fading but nostalgic memory.
