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- European Community Proposal
- Amateur spectroscopy has come to age. Amateur astronomers in the hundreds throughout Europe are enjoying the analysis of light from stars and other astronomical objects. It has been a grassroots movement...
- Professional Profile
- A quick profile: I started my professional career over 25 years ago with a Swiss bank apprenticeship, which, in retrospect, was a great foundation to build on. Apprenticeships in Switzerland...
- Welcome
- Good day and welcome to my personal Web site, a hopefully interesting detour on the information superhighway. I trained as an economist in the United States (UCSD and Purdue) and the United...
- Greed never dies
- When it comes to financial investments, it's not principally hope which never dies but greed. In the last 5 to 10 years, passive investments as typified by exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and index-tracking...
- Sailing
- Golf Club Lindau-Bad Schachen
- My home club, the Golf Club Lindau-Bad Schachen, established in 1954, is nestled in a beautiful spot overlooking Lake Constance. It is rated as one of the "Top 10" golf courses in Germany and continues...
- LSE and the University of London
- The founding of the London School of Economics and Political Science (informally LSE) marked the conjunction of a need with an opportunity. The need was for a center where political and social problems...
- UBS
- UBS AG is a major player in private banking, asset and risk management, corporate and institutional finance, financial trading and financial product sales worldwide. The transformation of UBS into a truly...
- Singapore
- Hong San See Temple, Singapore, used to be the focal point for immigrants from Nan Ann Town in Fukien Province, China. The present temple, built between 1908 and 1912, replaced an earlier one in Tanjong...
- Web Server Performance
- The Observers' List
- The Observers' List - Observe the Universe! The purpose of this List is to enable subscribing members to easily announce and coordinate astronomical observing runs. Send an e-mail message...
- Plato and modern governments
- The Classical Greek philosopher Plato (428 - 348 BC) wrote about five forms of government, which progressively may degenerate starting with aristocracy and ending in tyranny. Please feel free to associate...
- What's risk?
- Without uncertainty and exposure there would be no risk. I like the parachute analogy: In jumping out of an airplane with a parachute, there may be uncertainty as to whether the parachute will actually...
- Royal Astronomical Society
- I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2009 and, when I happened to be in London the same year on business, I dropped by Burlington House near Piccadilly Circus, the location of...
- Talented business
- I went recently to a corporate event and one of its theme was "talent management", i.e. how to find, recruit, reward, develop and retain "talent" for a business. Unfortunately,...
- Not profits
- I got a deceptively simple question for you to answer: What's the purpose of business? Mail me your take or read on for mine. Most MBA graduates will tell you that the purpose of business...